Research RPG! Online role playing game...

1. At Westfield State University, we created an online role playing game to serve as a tool to gather assessment data on first-year students' retention of information literacy concepts and skills. I will explain how we created the game and ask a volunteer to play the game for a minute or so. In the game, you play the role of a student conducting research for an environmental science paper and encounter "NPC's" that give advice (some good, some bad).

Here's the URL:http://legacy.lib.westfield.ma.edu/rpg/story.html

2. Pecha Kucha

3. Attendees will learn about the program Storyline (from Articulate) and how to embed Surveymonkey assessment questions into the game

4. I plan on giving the Pecha Kucha but may invite a coworker to present with me.

5. Oliver Zeff, Instruction Coordinator.  Westfield State University, Westfield, MA.