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Library Orientation

If you click on the "Library Orientation" link above this post, it will take you to the Prezi I prepared to introduce this lesson. However, it does not do justice to the actual outcome of all the work I've put in the last two weeks. I not only wanted to create a lesson in theory, but I spent the last two weeks constructing a lesson we can implement today, with all of the resources necessary. As you can imagine, the video took the longest.
I decided that, since I'm getting my endorsement in library, I'd rewrite a relevant library lesson. One of the lessons that is taught repeatedly at the beginning of the school year is library orientation. I work in a high school library that has a lot going on, and the lecture can tend to run on and on, and with the fifth class of the day, it's easy to forget whether or not you covered a specific point. So, I used this assignment to create something we can actually implement in our library next year. Instead of a lecture, students will watch a video that I prepared. The video runs at about ten minutes, as opposed to the 40 minute lecture. After students watch the video, they'll be given QR code readers and sent on a scavenger hunt around the library. Before, they would be given a worksheet with 30 questions and set loose to find the answers. Finally, they come back to the lecture area and participate in a student response system quiz. Now we don't have to spend hours grading papers, because the results are all in the system! I'm excited to see it implemented next year.