{"id":265,"date":"2007-09-12T13:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-12T01:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/?p=265"},"modified":"2007-09-12T13:25:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-12T01:25:00","slug":"transform-from-tourist-to-treasure-hunter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/transform-from-tourist-to-treasure-hunter\/","title":{"rendered":"Transform! From tourist to treasure hunter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Kate Thompson, Rosemary Kardos &#038; Lynne Knapp<\/b><br \/>Lynne presenting &#8211; works in Dental library at Otago<\/p>\n<p>Library tours\/presentation tedious so treasure hunt &#8211; so students could take more responsibility for learning.<br \/>Induction programme to get them aware of self as beginner registered professional &#8211; raise awareness of services etc.  Get them out of their comfort zone&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Science librarian had camp\/treasure hunt for school students.<\/p>\n<p>Hoped to be fun, breakaway from information overload, develop collegiality, learn library skills and learn why they might use libraries.<\/p>\n<p>Covered a number of library sites and other campus hot-spots.<\/p>\n<p>Planning<\/p>\n<ul>\n<\/p>\n<li>brainstorming\n<\/li>\n<li>develop timeline\n<\/li>\n<li>develop risk assessment matrix\n<ul>\n<\/p>\n<li>risk of ripping books &#8211; solution only once open book, otherwise just call numbers and e-resources\n<\/li>\n<li>risk of power failure!\n<\/li>\n<li>main risk &#8211; creating sound clues\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>36 students in teaching lab &#8211; presentation, hands-on, then treasure hunt pack (including maps, guides to catalogue etc, keypoints of presentation, first of five cluecards).  Grouped in pairs.  1.5 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Cluecards specific to each library\/hotspot.  Once each card was completed, checked by librarian and given next card.<\/p>\n<p>At end quick-fire quiz to recapitulate what learned; and evaluation where they reflected on it.<\/p>\n<p>Now worthy of treasure.  As well as knowledge got Colgate sponsorship with goodies.<\/p>\n<p>Follow-up:  two days later went into a class and presented special prizes to three of those who&#8217;d successfully completed quiz.  Discussed what improvements would make for next year.<\/p>\n<p>A month later, after had handed in assignments &#8211; asked how treasure hunt had helped.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<\/p>\n<li>improvement in written work &#8211; accessed more resources\n<\/li>\n<li>greater awareness of uni services and campus\n<\/li>\n<li>got to know each other\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Suggestions<\/p>\n<ul>\n<\/p>\n<li>include Student Job Search, Sports Centre\n<\/li>\n<li>consider competitive nature of some students\n<\/li>\n<li>campus very spread out so need more time to complete and warn them to wear sensible shoes\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Questions<\/b><br \/><i>What questions asked?<\/i> Kate looked at what had been done.  Wanted to learn basics of where things were.  Use of books, use of electronic resources.  Didn&#8217;t want congestion or risk to physical materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kate Thompson, Rosemary Kardos &#038; Lynne KnappLynne presenting &#8211; works in Dental library at Otago Library tours\/presentation tedious so treasure hunt &#8211; so students could take more responsibility for learning.Induction programme to get them aware of self as beginner registered professional &#8211; raise awareness of services etc. Get them out of their comfort zone&#8230; Science [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[225],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}