VCU is reading The Circle by Dave Eggers. All of the first year students will read the book in addition to a number of different faculty members and it’ll play various roles in various classes. So all that means lots of potential for interesting connections but very, very little consistency or hope for consistency.I talked to Joseph Cates about potential options for online annotation but I don’t think there’s much likelihood the publisher will give us the type of file we’d need to make that work well cross platform and between sections. The usual things that help you structure a site an experience like this aren’t going to happen but I would really like to allow people to engage with the larger community around this book. That’s the whole point of everyone reading the same book! So I’m relying on the basic blog-based aggregation hub option. The plan is for it to be a lot like the #thoughtvectors site which Alan has explained at length. People can enroll via a Gravity Form that’ll get them tied to their teacher/class and/or we can cherry pick anything with the #VCUcircleWe do need that to be consistent as an opt in element. tag from the Rampages community feed. That is pretty standard these days. 🙂 But a major uniting factor in these sites […]