ADE634

Using Promethean’s award-winning software ActivInspire or Promethean ActivOffice, display a question on the interactive display or ask it verbally, and students will respond using the virtual device on their computers or handheld devices. Assign full quizzes of varying difficulty with ActivEngage’s Self-Paced Learning functionality to encourage students to work at their own pace and comprehension level. Gain instant insight into student comprehension and progress with an intuitive, integrated application that makes the most of existing classroom technology.

You might think that I would respond by saying, "A great library is a great big library." But actually, I think a great library is one that stimulates curiosity.

Based on how Google ranks search results, typing in a question will be more likely to bring back pages with a question for a title.

So I have students write down their questions and teach them how to mark them up to create queries, the first step being to identify the significant words.

Nouns frequently make good search terms, so students can start by drawing the people, places, and things in their questions.