Friday, November 17, 2006

Play the Information Literacy Game

The libraries at the University of North Carolina Greensboro invite students to play the Information Literacy Game. An online board game for 1 to 4 players, the questions fall into 4 categories:

The Categories are:
Purple Category Category 1 - Choose Your Resource
Green Category Category 2 - Searching/Using Databases
Blue Category Category 3 - Cite Your Sources/Avoid Plagiarism
Red Category Category 4 - Library Wild Card

There are 3 special squares you can land on:

  • Light Bulb: This space will ask you to compare two different websites, or evaluate one website for different kinds of information. These websites will pop up in new windows, so be sure to close them when you are done.
  • Exclamation Point: This space will randomly do one of several things, such as giving or taking away lights, allowing you to choose an opponent to lose a turn or a light, etc.
  • Question Mark: This space will randomly choose a category and ask you a question. If it is a category you have not yet answered correctly, you will receive a light for a correct answer.
While a few questions are specifically aimed at UNC-G students, most can be answered by an information literate student or teacher. Play it yourself!! Maybe some creative Floridian can create a Florida K-12 version???? Anyone know Ajax?

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