Possible Roles for Literature Circles:
Summarizer: Your job is to prepare a brief summary of the reading. Make sure your posts covers the key points, main highlights, general idea and essence of the reading. Create your summary using the following apps:  Tools4Students, ReadNRespond, Trading Cards, Toontastic, Tellagami, Animoto
Discussion Director: Your job is to develop a list of questions that your group might want to discuss about this part of the book and direct the discussion by posting the questions online. Usually the best discussion questions come from your own thoughts, feelings and concerns as you read, which you can list below, during or after your reading. As you meet with your group, you will post questions and respond to group members answers. You can use these apps: Haiku Deck or Keynote.
Word Finder:  Your job is to find new or interesting words in the text. You will need to note the page number and the context of the word. Use the apps: Dictionary, Pic Collage, Camera, and Trading Cards
Time Keeper:  Your job is to create a timeline of the events for the sequence of the text. Use the apps: Timeline (International Reading Association) or Tools4Students.
Literary Luminary: Your job is to find sections of the text that include important events or information. You will read or post a quote from the text and explain why it is important. Record yourself reading using Audioboo and Educreations. You can post a link to the recording on Edmodo. You can also use VoiceThread. 
Travel Tracer: Your job is to carefully track where the action is happening in the reading. Show the group where the characters have moved to and from and describe each setting in detail either in words or in map form. Be sure to give the page locations where the scene is described. Apps to use: Mapquest, Skitch, GoogleEarth
Illustrator: Your job is to draw some kind of picture related to the reading. It can be a sketch, cartoon, diagram, flow chart or stick-figure scene. You can draw a picture of something that's discussed specifically in your book, or something that the reading reminded you of, or a picture that conveys any idea or feeling. Apps to Use: ComicBook!, Doodlebuddy, Sketchbook, Book Creator

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