Portable Card Catalog

20 Day Blogging Challenge - Day 4: Share a topic/idea from class this week.

Image by Stuart Caie

I happened on this idea quite by accident.  The 4th grade was using the library iPads for a project and one student needed to find a book.  He headed over to one of the desktop computers to use the card catalog.  I reminded him that the card catalog could also be accessed with the iPad.  He used it, located the book online, and then took the iPad to the shelf with him when he went to find the actual book.  All of a sudden everyone was looking up books and heading to the stacks with their iPad.  The portability of the iPad made this activity more motivating and prevented the boys from forgetting the call number, title and such.  It also made tweaking the search much more feasible.  I'll be continuing with this!