10:00 am – 11:00 am CST WEDNESDAY, February 1st, 2012
Adam Rogers
Adrienne Lai
- Adrienne Lai, North Carolina State University Libraries
- Adam Rogers, North Carolina State University Libraries
Description:
Hoping to enliven traditional library orientation, three NCSU librarians developed the Mobile Scavenger Hunt, a mobile-based game delivered using iPods and free cloud-based tools like Evernote and Google Docs. It sends teams of students in search of answers to clues that orient them to the library’s spaces, collections, and technologies. The activity provides a fun, low-stakes means to promote resources and services critical to academic success and invites students to explore the building and interact with staff, drawing connections between the virtual and physical library.
Presenters will share tools, workflow management strategies and assessment with those who wish to develop a similar activity in their home libraries. The session will cover how we rapidly developed a pilot project, adjusted the game dynamics in response to initial feedback, and worked out the logistics to offer over 45 scavenger hunts to 800+ students in Fall 2011.
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