“Doing dewey” how to make it work for your students….

Last year for intermediate students, I introduced Dewey with a Powerpoint presentation that showed the 100’s categories (found on the web, shared content).  Then I asked students where I would find different types of books, I choose topics my students were interested in like dirt biking, horses, Guinness record books.  Then I finished with this Dewey rap that is listed on our LIBE465 course website.  They really enjoyed it, or maybe just watching me dance crazily. Then to help students use Dewey in the library I created a shortened “Dewey” with pictures for the back of the shelf browsers. This browser list worked really well, even the primary students liked them. Any browsers that were missing the list were returned to me.  

So this year I plan to translate the powerpoint presentation to French (with editing by a francophone staff member).  I have  already translated the browser list for my new school library, and have had students asking where is “390”. So now the students can access materials from the Dewey organized collection themselves.