By Jenny Levine |
By Amy Harris, Scott Rice
Presented July 24, 2007
"Scott Rice and Amy Harris are supporting educational initiatives at UNCG by
creating an online information literacy game. The game uses a
question-and-answer format and allows two to four students to play against each
other by answering questions about information literacy topics in four different
categories (such as Choose your Resource, Avoiding Plagiarism, and Searching and
Using Databases). The game also has a one-player version in which students
provide timed responses to questions. In addition to the four categories,
special squares on the game's Trivial Pursuit-like board ask students to find a
specific piece of information on an actual website or to compare two websites
based on a specific criteria (such as authority or currency). The game was
created using AJAX to be adapted easily by other libraries. In this
presentation, Rice and Harris hope to allow librarians to play the game while
answering questions about its creation and showing librarians how to customize
it for their own libraries." More info....
Listen to an MP3 audio file of this session (28MB, 30:49)
tags: glls2007, gaming in libraries
Presented July 24, 2007
"Scott Rice and Amy Harris are supporting educational initiatives at UNCG by
creating an online information literacy game. The game uses a
question-and-answer format and allows two to four students to play against each
other by answering questions about information literacy topics in four different
categories (such as Choose your Resource, Avoiding Plagiarism, and Searching and
Using Databases). The game also has a one-player version in which students
provide timed responses to questions. In addition to the four categories,
special squares on the game's Trivial Pursuit-like board ask students to find a
specific piece of information on an actual website or to compare two websites
based on a specific criteria (such as authority or currency). The game was
created using AJAX to be adapted easily by other libraries. In this
presentation, Rice and Harris hope to allow librarians to play the game while
answering questions about its creation and showing librarians how to customize
it for their own libraries." More info....
Listen to an MP3 audio file of this session (28MB, 30:49)
tags: glls2007, gaming in libraries