Hi all!
Next week is scavenger hunt week! The game will open at 8:00 am Monday morning. There will be a feature box ad, social media posts, a whiteboard and some posters on the front doors inviting students to play.
Here are a few things you need to know:
The first clue will be a word that is hidden in a poster of the “Library Upside Down” that will be posted at the entrance to the Commons. There will be a set of instructions posted there as well that explain the game to people who stop to check it out. Once students find the first clue, they visit the url where the game lives and enter the clue and their email address. The rest of the game is played entirely online with students receiving search challenges via email and submitting their responses on the game page to keep the scavenger hunt going.
The search challenge questions sent via email ask students to find 3 things: the office number of the staff member who is “in charge” of the investigation (that would be Hopper), a word from the title of a course reserve for Joyce Byers (they do NOT need to find the actual book on reserve, just a word from the title, so they have to figure out how to search for the reserve on our website) and the author of a specific article that they can find by using the Quick Search tab (a chance to practice using Discovery). Each time students submit a correct response to a search challenge, they are sent a clue word in response. The 4 clue words add up to the location of Eleven. (They are Behind Door Room 101).
On Monday morning we’ll have a poster of Eleven behind the door in 101 along with a basket of buttons for those who “find” her. The game will remain up until Thursday at 3:00 pm. We’d like to run as many students through it as possible, so please encourage students to play when you see them at service points. Just direct them to the Upside Down poster in the Commons to get started. And if they need help along the way finding that course reserve title or article in Discovery, use that as a teachable moment!
Once the game closes on Thursday, we will draw a winner from the list of email addresses of all who completed the hunt. The game itself will remain up and playable after that, just without a prize at the end.
Andrea is finishing some wording tweaks to the game page and email responses today. As soon as those are completed, I will email the game page link to all of you and you can give it a shot yourselves.
Fingers crossed it is successful. A zillion thanks to Andrea, Steven, Will and the rest of my Outreach colleagues for putting this together. -Virginia