Artifact 12

A. This rationale is a database of different literature. The database consists of information about various books. You can search the database in many different ways, such as by: author, title, publisher, etc. Each book that is entered contains a bibliography, as well as instructional strategies to use the book in the classroom.

B. I created my portion of the database during my senior year at Appalachian State University. As a part of my literature course during my Block classes, I had to enter twenty databases over the course of the semester. I entered these databases by finding the following website on the WorldWide Web: http://www.ltl.appstate.edu:591/Childlitdb/. Once this page came up, I clicked on "New Record," and from there a blank record came up. After I filled out all of the information of the book, I clicked on the "submit" button. Now, all of the information that I entered can be used by many people.

C. I plan on using this database when I am a teacher because it contains a lot of valuable information. I can use this database to search any book that I am interested in, and it will provide me with a review of the book as well instructional strategies that I can use with it in the classroom.

D. This rationale meets Technology Competency V- C because it allows me to use technology to make my job more productive. This productiveness comes in the fact that this information is already available to me on the Web, I just have to find it and use it in my classroom. It saves a lot of time to use this database, rather than to have to take the time to search through certain books to fit a lesson.

It also meets INTASC Principle Number Eight because you can have students enter their own databases. This provides a good source of assessment for the teacher. It shows the teacher that the student did read the book and gathered valuable information from it.