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Group Activities
4:18 PM EST 11/16/09
No matter how excited I get to talk about library databases (pretty excited, I assure you), I realize that not every audience is always quite as excited to hear about them from me.
So I find that it can be helpful to get groups of people to teach each other about databases. In library training sessions, where applicable, it often works wonders to divide into small groups, have each small group work on an activity, and then have each group present that activity to the large group as a whole.
Everybody gets their feet wet; everybody sees what everyone else was working on.
I wonder if this would work with teachers? I just posted three sets of activities to get an in-depth knowledge of the Points of View Reference Center, Student Research Center, and Encyclopedia Britannica. Find them in the Documents tab. They are organized in the "Hands-On" title section. You, as the media specialist, might have to do some instruction at the outset in introducing these databases, but would having teachers teach each other about database content be useful in promotion?
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