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some cool ideas in here that have potential for IL instruction (twitter games, virtual meeting places based around a web page).

Use potential? Twitter game where you give clues; students need 2 work in collab to decode/hunt down resources. Students create comic strip of screenshots of their research path and insert dialog showing their thoughts during the process (a creative form of journaling?)

free online post-it note board. Can use it as interactive way to gather feedback, ideas, etc. just for yourself or within a group or publicly. No user registration needed.

Thinking how this can be used in a classroom...virtual tour of historic battlefields?

ASU's "The Library Minute" YouTube channel - brief videos about library services and tools.

Crazy idea? ETC creates a YouTube channel and does a series of brief screencasts where one or more of us (once a month?) demos a technology or tool or service and how we are using it or how we might want to use it for instruction within SUNY.

from Hidden Peanuts blog

crazy idea?: create a SUNY-wide alternate reality game that invites students from all over SUNY to collaborate to solve a complex mystery or puzzle of some kind and that involves using a variety of library and scholarly resources. Maybe even provide a forum for students to communicate and collaborate. If solved, SUNY libraries, for example, could donate books or other resources to some charity or cause?

article from Search Engine Watch

Here is one idea for using twitter, perhaps in collab with a history or writing or acting faculty member: have students role play people from a specific event (e.g., Watergate from the eyes of several key players) or set of circumstances (e.g., ppl from different backgrounds observing a lynching, etc.). Each student is assigned (or picks) a different "character" and then is responsible for researching that event or issue and or person and to create realistic tweets that they imagine their character might be observing or thinking about during the event or about the issue. You could then also assign a reflective essay for them to think about how the process of emerging themselves in the persona and interacting with the other characters effected their perspective (or just do a simpler assignment where they reflect on their research process).