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Library Scavenger Hunt Postmortem
Last July I blogged about wanting to create a library game for our new student orientation at City Tech this Fall. As is all-too-common over the summer, time got the better of me and I didn’t have a chance to create the game I’d initially wanted to. Which is okay! What I did do, instead, [...]
Continue reading...A Library Orientation Game?
Saturday, July 21, 2012
With the summer speeding along its merry way I’ve been thinking a lot lately about student orientation. At City Tech we have what I assume is a common scenario for student orientation at commuter colleges with large student populations: students have one day for orientation during which they need to learn about the entire college [...]
Continue reading...“Learning Through Quests and Contests: Games in Information Literacy Instruction”
Thursday, November 3, 2011
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Games Network member Maura Smale (I’m her!) just published an article about using games in information literacy and research instruction in the latest issue of the Journal of Library Innovation. The article reviews the ways that games-based learning has been used to teach information literacy in a variety of settings, from digital to non-digital games, [...]
Continue reading...The Information Literacy Game
Friday, July 15, 2011
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One of the most widely-known games for library and research instruction is The Information Literacy Game, created by University of North Carolina at Greensboro librarians Scott Rice and Amy Harris. Anyone can play this web-based board game on the UNCG website, and the creators have also made the source files available for download so that [...]
Continue reading...Video-Game Rooms Become the Newest Library Space Invaders
Saturday, April 30, 2011
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Check out this interesting article in the Chronicle of Higher Education about video games in academic libraries: Video-Game Rooms Become the Newest Library Space Invaders
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