{"id":3123,"date":"2011-10-20T00:01:45","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T04:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=3123"},"modified":"2011-10-11T21:47:27","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T01:47:27","slug":"hi-my-name-is-melvil-dewey-nice-to-meet-you-how-you-doin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/hi-my-name-is-melvil-dewey-nice-to-meet-you-how-you-doin\/","title":{"rendered":"Hi, My Name is Melvil Dewey. Nice to Meet You, How You Doin’?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am the media specialist in an urban middle school, and I often have to ask myself, “How do I get\/keep the kids’ attention long enough to teach them what they need to know?”\u00a0 Sometimes the answer is make it short and sweet, or make it fun and memorable.\u00a0 When teaching the Dewey Decimal System, my answer is get them to laugh with a catchy rap made just for the Dewey system!\u00a0 Two years ago, I came across this YouTube video:<\/p>\n

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I couldn’t get the song out of my head!\u00a0 So I decided if I couldn’t get it out of my head, then my students wouldn’t be able to either!\u00a0 I immediately added it to my lesson on the Dewey system.\u00a0 I start my lesson with a short introduction to the DDS, then introduce my students to the “best four minutes and fifteen seconds of their day” that they are about to have.\u00a0 I let them watch the video, and by the end, they are laughing and singing along.\u00a0 After that, I delve into my more in-depth PowerPoint about how and why we classify books in the DDS.\u00a0 I end the lesson with a Dewey Scavenger Hunt, and you wouldn’t believe how many of the kids are singing the rap while they are completing their scavenger hunt!\u00a0 Days and weeks pass, and the students are still found singing the rap in the library, the hallways, and even their classrooms!\u00a0 They will come up to me and tell me that they shared the video with their entire family when they got home.\u00a0 And one thing is for sure, none of my students EVER have to ask me where the shark books are!\u00a0 As silly as it may be, The Dewey Decimal Rap hits home with kids that love music, rap, or just plain silliness!<\/p>\n

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Our guest blogger today is Jill Schriner,\u00a0 librarian at Portage Middle School<\/a> in Fort Wayne, Indiana.\u00a0 Jill\u00a0 can be contacted at J.Schriner@fwcs.k12.in.us<\/a><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

If you\u2019d like to write a guest post for the ALSC Blog, please contact Mary Voors, ALSC Blog manager, at alscblog@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am the media specialist in an urban middle school, and I often have to ask myself, “How do I get\/keep the kids’ attention long enough to teach them what they need to know?”\u00a0 Sometimes the answer is make it short and sweet, or make it fun and memorable.\u00a0 When teaching the Dewey Decimal System, my answer is get them to laugh with a catchy rap made just for the Dewey system!\u00a0 Two years ago, I came across this YouTube video: I couldn’t get the song out of my head!\u00a0 So I decided if I couldn’t get it out of my head, then my students wouldn’t be able to either!\u00a0 I immediately added it to my lesson on the Dewey system.\u00a0 I start my lesson with a short introduction to the DDS, then introduce my students to the “best four minutes and fifteen seconds of their day” that they are…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[134,48,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-blogger","category-school-library","category-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}