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Survivor Island Grammar Style!

Engage students in a student-centered 50 minute instruction session on grammar. Use Survivor Island theme to promote active learning, camaraderie, and understanding. Incorporate diverse learning styles through visual, auditory, and kinesthetic activities. Motivate learners with competition and collaboration, while providing repeated practice and immediate feedback.

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Survivor Island Grammar Style!

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  1. Jamie M. Holmes, MLSReference & Instruction LibrarianNortheastern State University, BA

  2. Information Literacy Skills 50 Minute Instruction Session Professor Requested Objectives

  3. True learning = seeing +hearing + doing + processing! Survivor Island – Grammar Style! Instruction should be student centered!

  4. Host can gauge how learners are doing Helps build camaraderie Discussion on teams increases understanding Supports diverse learning styles: visual, auditory and kinesthetic Events w/ emotion= long-lasting learning Boredom/apathy do not promote learning Learners need repeated practice and immediate feedback Use both competition and collaboration Avoids long periods of passive listening & too much hectic activity “Games are one of the most highly effective ways to engage adult learners”

  5. Motivation

  6. 1st place gets 3 tickets 2nd place gets 2 tickets 3rd place gets 1 ticket Grand Prize = 100 pages on library print server

  7. Image Credits, Links & References NSUBA Campus: http://www.nsuok.edu/goodies/wallpaper/brokenarrow640x480.jpg Day 5 Sleeeeepy: http://www.flickr.com/photos/crock/297090749/ Portrait of a College Student: http://www.flickr.com/photos/reflection/2087916305/ NSU Libraries Curriculum & Instruction Department page: http://library.nsuok.edu/collegeed/cni/index.html and various Tech Smith logos from: http://www.techsmith.com/ Sleeping person image from: Office Online, http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/clipart/default.aspx Survivor Library blog: http://www.survivorlibrary.blogspot.com/ Surviving the Library Wiki: http://survivingthelibrary.pbwiki.com/ Yaman, D. & Covington, M. (2006). I’ll take learning for 500: Using gameshows to engage, motivate and train. San Francisco: Pheiffer. Various EBSCOHost screen shots. Facts from Yaman & Covington (full reference above) Candy & money images from: Office Online, http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/clipart/default.aspx Document presented to students in library instruction sessions: Library Mission Possible Stormy Clouds Cover the Jungle: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lapidim/43201197/ Mission Impossible (film, 1996) poster from The Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117060/ Mission Impossible logo (TV series, CBS, original logo) from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission:_Impossible Mission Impossible Theme Song (15 second clip) from my copy of Television's Greatest Hits, Vol. 1: From the 50's and 60's [SOUNDTRACK]. Available from http://www.amazon.com/Televisions-Greatest-Hits-Vol-50s/dp/B000000GOI

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