Foursquare-like social gaming in the library: Uisng your library card, when you visit library, when you bring books back or even when you log in to an e-resource, your actions - provided you've registered with us -will register on Lemontree and earn you points!
I now have it in my mind to create something like this for information literacy! Perhaps using screencasting and having students make critical choices in a sample research process that can then show them the outcomes of various strategies, from topic choice to searching to paraphrasing and writing.
in CITE Journal - Language Arts Volume 10, Issue 3 (2010) ISSN 1528-580\nEwa McGrail\nGeorgia State University\n\nJ. Patrick McGrail\nJacksonville State University
a 3-year project (October 1, 2008 to September 30, 2011), to support the design, development, testing, and evaluation of a computer game to teach incoming undergraduate students information literacy skills and concepts
contains downloadable games, game templates, and utilities that teachers and trainers can use to enhance any lesson.
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thought-provoking video by ALA about online privacy issues. Features ALA prez, Cory Doctorow, Neil Gaiman, etc. Very good resource for introducing privacy literacy discussion?
"handbook is aimed at educational practitioners and school leaders in both primary and secondary schools who are interested in creative and critical uses of technology in the classroom."
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How do I put this to work in online synchronous learning settings?...
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?)