Online Learning Toolkit

Games in the Curriculum

• Bibliobouts A new game for teaching information literacy skills that can be integrated into or supplement existing information literacy instruction programs.
• InfoLit 101 Teaches students how to narrow a research topic, use databases, select keywords, distinguish between book and journal citations, and evaluate sources.
• I'll Get It Assist people who enter the library in search of information. Students get annoyed and leave if you don't help them quickly.
• Primary and Secondary Sources Answer all questions correctly to become a millionaire.
• Infometer For each question, choose one of the best sources to find the information. In each case, more than one source is considered a good answer. Get all 7 questions right to win the game.
• Within Range Shelve books in correct order to learn how information is organized and categorized using the Library of Congress Classification system.
• Citation Game Drag and drop the pieces to correctly format either APA or MLA citations. This new version has additional citation types and reflects the 2009 MLA changes.
• Citation Tic Tac Toe Students must correctly identify a citation's source or style to win each square.
• Ready Reference Do you know your reference resources well enough to earn one million dollars?
• Industry Islands Help brewery owner Nina Espanoza do basic research on the beer industry. Resources covered: Gale Virtual Reference Library, S&P NetAdvantage, Hoover’s Online, library books
• Developing Student Research Skills with Games Think Fast. A rapid-fire, multiple choice question/answer game.
• Library Squares. A tic-tac-toe style game from TILT.
• Guess the Google. Presents a montage of Google Images associated with a particular word, you must guess that word.
• IMSA 21st Century Information Fluency Project

1. Power Searching Teaches how to use synonyms tp know which words in a free text phrase will be most appropriate for searching.
2. Piraanha challenge http://21cif.imsa.edu/tutorials/challenge/Q2Q/Q2Q_Piranhas.swf
3. Earthquake challenge http://21cif.imsa.edu/rkitp/challenge/v1n3/Keyword_Challenge/Q2Q_Earthquake.swf)
4. Diamond challenge http://21cif.imsa.edu/rkitp/challenge/Keyword_Challenge/Q2Q_Diamond.swf
5. Buffalo Challenge http://21cif.imsa.edu/rkitp/challenge/Keyword_Challenge/Q2Q_Buffalo.swf

• Create Your Own Games Wisc-Online has created templates to allow others to enter content into a variety of game formats. Games can be added to web pages and course management systems. To get started sign in to Wisc-Online and select the GameBuilder link. Visit http://www.wisc-online.com for step-by-step instructions. Sample games are at Game List.

More Games for Finding Effective Search Terms

• Soccer challenges http://21cif.imsa.edu/tutorials/challenge/soccerchallenge/Nyms_1Tutor.swf
• Snowsport http://21cif.imsa.edu/rkitp/challenge/nyms/snowsports/Nyms_snowsport1.swf
• Query Assessment http://21cif.imsa.edu/rkitp/assessment/v1n0/query_assessment.swf
• Internet Search Challenge http://21cif.imsa.edu/rkitp/challenge/SC_rollercoaster/SC_010.swf
• Good apple/bad apple http://21cif.imsa.edu/rkitp/challenge/evaluation/badapple/badapple_index.swf
• Info Lit Game at UNCG http://library.uncg.edu/game/ Description: A game for 1-4 players. The game covers the following categories:

1. Category 1 - Choose Your Resource
2. Category 2 - Searching/Using Databases
3. Category 3 - Cite Your Sources/Avoid Plagiarism
4. Category 4 - Library Wild Card

Gaming Literature