Pecha Kucha presented at 2013 ECIL Conference.

1. Get Off Your Soapbox:
Engaging Students in
Large Lectures
Susan [Gardner] Archambault
Loyola Marymount University, USA

2. About GoSoapBox

3. Clickers Without the Clicker

4. Pricing

5. Step 1: Create an Event on
Account Dashboard

6. Step 2: Use Moderation Panel to
Configure Features & Create Content

7. Step 3: Students Join Event Using
Event Access Code

8. Confusion Barometer
Student View Instructor View

9. Quizzes: Formative Assessment

11. Download Activity and Grade Reports

12. Polling

13. Open-Ended Discussion Questions

14. Social Q&A

15. Advantages
• Anonymous
• Pre, Post, or
On-the-Fly
assessment

16. More Advantages
• Facilitates classroom
engagement and
discussion
• Provides outlet for
peer learning

17. Possible Disadvantages
• Fixed answers
measure recognition,
not recall
• Not “authentic”
assessment
• Not measuring
complex behavior

18. Applications for Information Literacy
Instruction
Multiple Choice
• How would changing a limiter/
search string impact results?
• Which is the better research
question?
• Which sources would be best
for a particular info need?
• Is it scholarly, popular, trade,
or primary?
• Is this plagiarism? Common
Knowledge?
• What is book’s call number
• What kind of source does this
citation represent?
Discussion
• How could we adjust this
broad research question?
• Construct a Boolean search
for this Venn diagram
• Cite this source in proper APA
style
• How could this search be
improved?
• Pick out the key concepts of a
research question
• Brainstorm for synonyms
• Provide a sample resource
and ask pointed questions

19. A Similar Product…

20. Acknowledgements
Thank You:
• William H. Hannon
Library Research
Incentive Travel Grant
Contact Me:
• susan.gardner@lmu.edu