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From Candy to Clickers Interactive Activities to Involve Students in Library Instruction

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Randy Christensen Associate Professor of Library Media and Richard Eissinger Instructional Services Librarian Presented by

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Southern Utah University Gerald R. Sherratt Library - http://www.li.suu.eduhttp://www.li.suu.edu Regional university; 6000 students First Year Experience Remediation Information literacy program Teaching responsibilities

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Todays agenda Ice-breakers Interactive demonstrations Brainstorming Games from templates Feedback: evaluation, testing, wrap-up

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Ice-Breakers: Introductions Interactive Activities to Involve Students in Library Instruction

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Ice-Breakers: Clickers Interactive Activities to Involve Students in Library Instruction

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Ice-breaker (clicker) Your anxiety level before teaching a class? A.Im cool - no worries B.I rely on lots of preparation time C.I need a script and lots of practice D.Cant sleep at all the night before E.Wake up at dawn in a cold sweat

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Ice-breaker (clicker) How honest are you? A.I would never cheat B.I probably would never cheat C.I might cheat under some conditions D.I probably would cheat if needed E.I cheat all the time

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Interactive Activities Knowledge Chase Game Round 1 Table 1Table 2Table 3Table 4 Round 2 Table 5Table 6Table 7Table 8

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Knowledge Chase Game Examples of question categories: ACRL standards Databases Information literacy Reference sources Round 1 Table 1Table 2Table 3Table 4 Round 2 Table 5Table 6Table 7Table 8

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Interactive Activities Games from templates

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Games from Templates Google search: powerpoint game templatespowerpoint game templates Examples Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader? Millionaire Jeopardy

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Interactive Activities Brainstorming

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Brainstorming Visuwords: http://www.visuwords.comhttp://www.visuwords.com Visual Thesaurus: http://www.visualthesaurus.comhttp://www.visualthesaurus.com Webspiration: http://mywebspiration.comhttp://mywebspiration.com Mindomo and Mindmeister EBSCO Visual Search

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Visuwords Visual Thesaurus

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Webspiration

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EBSCO Visual Search

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Interactive Activities Evaluation and feedback?

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Feedback (clicker On the fly) Most important library research skills? 1. ?

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How do you use active learning? Ice-breakers Interactive demonstrations Games from templates Brainstorming and concept mapping

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Evaluation cell phone polling http://polleverywhere.com

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Randy Christensen christensen@suu.edu and Richard Eissinger eissinger@suu.edu Thanks for coming

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Thanks for coming