Book Chat

The book chat with Dwight MacPherson was an interesting experience. Overall it was good because I had never chatted with an author. I really enjoyed the informal setting because it was relaxing and comfortable. In the beginning of that chat it was very chaotic. I think everyone was a bit nervous and were not sure how to do the whole chat thing, however, once the rules were established it seem to flow very well. Before the book chat I was thinking an hour would be too long. I was wrong! The hour went by so fast and I was a little disappointed. I felt I learned a lot about Mr. MacPherson but I wanted to learn more! Some of the questions that were asked were really good but I don’t think Mr. MacPherson had time to answer them all. I wish he could have gone into more detail on some of the questions. I thought it was interesting that Mr. MacPherson wrote Kid Houdini for one of his sons that has ADHD. This is proof that comic books do work for special education students. I would definitely do a book chat in my classroom if given the opportunity. Because some students may not have access to a computer at home, I would use one computer in the classroom while having each student type a question one at a time and wait for the response. On the other hand, for this class, I think it would have been neat to do a practice round. Not with Kid Houdini but with one of Dr. Rene Saldana’s books. I would love to read one of his books and then have an author chat with him. By doing this, there would be less confusion and hopefully more detailed answers during the book chat.