Internet+Tools

My Internet Tools are designed to enhance my teaching of the Dewey Decimal Classification System, or DDC. I hope that these tools will help my students gain a greater understanding of how the DDC works and why the DDC is important.

I created a set of flashcards for studying and reviewing the Dewey Decimal Classification System at [|FlashcardExchange]. These flashcards would be most appropriate for middle or high school students. The flashcards could be modified for elementary students. They could also be printed and posted near the different sections of the library that correspond to each Dewey Decimal class.
 * Internet Tool #1 **

To view the flashcards, click the link under Card Set Title that says The Dewey Decimal Classification System. Next, click List/Edit Flashcards or Study to view the flashcards.

My flashcards: [|The Dewey Decimal Classification System flashcards]

**Internet Tool #2** I created a word search at [|Discovery Education's Puzzlemaker] for a particular class of the Dewey Decimal Classification System. The 700 class is Arts & Recreation, a class that many students might find interesting as it contains books about art, architecture, drawing, painting, music, games, and sports. Graphic novels and books about comics would also be found in the 700s. This word search would be most appropriate for upper elementary and middle school students. Additional word searches could be created for other classes of the DDC.

My word search:

I created a rubric at [|Rubistar] to evaluate [|Glogs] created by students. Students would be asked to create a Glog similar to the one I created for the Multimedia section of my wiki. Each Glog would focus on one of the ten classes of the Dewey Decimal Classification System. Students would be required to feature three sections within a DDC class. Each section would advertise a book from the school library's collection that corresponds to the section's call number (for example, a book about Shakespeare would have a call number of 822.3, which corresponds to section 822, Drama). Students would also be required to include elements such as sound, video, text, and graphics to enhance their Glog. This project and its corresponding rubric would be most appropriate for upper elementary and middle school students. If I was unable to use this project with all my students, I would use it as an assignment for any student fulfilling an elective requirement through enrollment as a library aide.
 * Internet Tool #3 **

My rubric: [|DDC Glogster Project Rubric]

I created a calendar at [|Assign-A-Day] as a way to experiment on how I might maintain a calendar of events once I have my own library. I thought about when I was teaching, and how I as a teacher worked with the media specialist to schedule blocks of time for using the library. I was a middle school literature and language teacher, so I took my students to the library to check out books and conduct research. Our students had seven hours, or class periods, within the day; they were in my classes for two of those hours. I remembered how the seasoned teachers made a mad dash for the library on the first day the media specialist opened up her plan book to schedule library times (thankfully, a very kind seasoned teacher let me know about this as I was brand new and clueless). Teachers had planned out when they would be using the library //throughout the entire school year.// As I was reflecting back on this and thinking about how I might do things in the future as the media specialist, I thought about how I could use a tool that would allow teachers to see who was using the library, at what times, and how it was being used. I created an online calendar that I could share with all the teachers in the building. My hope is that a tool such as this would a.) remind teachers of when they are scheduled to come to the library, and b.) show teachers times that are still available for use, should they need or want to come to the library.
 * Additional Tool **

A little information about the calendar: Since my previous school used hours to refer to students' classes, that is what I used on my calendar. If the calendar says "Mrs. Brown (2nd & 7th hours)," that means Mrs. Brown will be in the library during 2nd and 7th hours. Also, if you hold your cursor over the event or name scheduled on each day, you will find additional information about that event or name. I used the newsletter I created in the Teacher Tools section of my wiki to add events to my calendar.

My calendar: [|Mrs. Roush's Calendar: South Middle School Library]

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