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Hand the cards randomly to students as they arrive. Print the colour on the card to avoid excluding students with colour perception impairments.
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Work through your colour-coded themes inviting your audience to deliver their assigned questions. For each question, select the corresponding PowerPoint slide. Bear in mind that you will not know the order in which the questions will be asked within each section.
For examples of typical Cephalonian Method slides, see Example 1, p. 99. Alternatively, a link to a complete Cephalonian orientation presentation can be found on the INSRV IL web page.
HILT Pick Why not try combining the Cephalonian Method with ‘clickers’ technology for students to vote on answers to questions? This will involve your audience to an even greater extent!
Library Bingo Pioneered by Andy Jackson (University of Dundee)1, this is another way of confounding students’ expectation that they have just arrived at a ‘boring library talk’. How to play: •
Give each pair (or small group) of students a blank ‘bingo card’. This will have a grid of, say, 6 empty boxes printed on it.
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Ask each pair to write in the boxes six services or resources they think the library provides
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Jackson, A. 2007. Are we having fun yet? Interactive lecturing techniques for librarians. ALISS Quarterly 2(4), pp. 35-39.
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