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

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

3. 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

4. Today’s agenda …  Ice-breakers  Interactive demonstrations  Brainstorming  Games from templates  Feedback: evaluation, testing, wrap-up

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

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

7. Ice-breaker (clicker) Your anxiety level before teaching a class? A.I’m cool - no worries B.I rely on lots of preparation time C.I need a script and lots of practice D.Can’t sleep at all the night before E.Wake up at dawn in a cold sweat

8. 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

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

10. 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

11. Interactive Activities Games from templates

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

13. Interactive Activities Brainstorming

14. 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

15. Visuwords – Visual Thesaurus …

16. Webspiration …

17. EBSCO Visual Search …

18. Interactive Activities Evaluation and feedback?

19. Feedback (clicker – “On the fly”) Most important library research skills? 1. ?

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

21. Evaluation – cell phone polling http://polleverywhere.com

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

23. Thanks for coming …