Presenters: Amy Edwards and Brent Appling, Thomas Cooper Library (USC)
Date: Thursday, October 20, 2011, 10:30-11:30am, SCLA Annual Conference
Program Description: Looking for new tools to engage your students in the classroom but have limited prep time and few resources? Come join us for this session and learn about some inexpensive, easy-to-prepare tools that can be used in a variety of instructional settings. These tools take just a few minutes of class time but can provide insight into your student’s learning and into the effectiveness of the instructional approach.
Session notes:
- Began session with “in a word” game to engage students. Like $10,000 Pyramid, only harder!- Electronic Review Games – create in Prezi and PowerPoint
o Why use? Relatable to younger generation, reinforce covered material, generate good library image
- Prezi games in practice:
o Easy to design questions to follow along different levels of cognitive process
o Inserting visuals is very simple
o Can make as easy or involved as you like
o Is embeddable in LibGuides
- What’s Wrong With This Picture?
o Self-assessment activity
o Try it with a capture of your homepage and alter the screenshot with errors, then have students scrutinize it to locate the errors
o To create the error-filled page, use ctrl-alt-printscreen, paste in Paint, try to use pages with a lot of white space, edit using Eraser and Text Box tools
- Create a Jeopardy Review Game using Powerpoint
o Strengths
§ Info broken into categories
§ Ask more advanced questions
§ Adaptable
§ Motivates students to participate
§ Keeps students engaged, lives up session
- Top Five
o An activity to add context to the lesson
o Slide: “What do you need to conduct library research?”
§ Fill in the blanks: pass around index cards to generate ideas
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