Escape the Ordinary
Can You Beat the Clock?
Can You Beat the Clock?Escape games are a fun option to facilitate engagement and learning in multiple contexts. These games naturally promote critical thinking and communication. With thought and a little planning, librarians can provide a creative and collaborative active learning activity for information literacy skills while supporting multiple frames within the ACRL framework.
This guide walks through the process and materials used by a group of librarians at Georgia Southern University to create an original Escape Room Activity to be used as part of Information Literacy Instruction. Enjoy browsing through our process, and please feel free to contact us. We'd love to share our experience with you and help you design your own Escape Activity!
Presentation
Images from our Test Run Through
As part of our planning process, we held a test run through at one of our professional meetings. Area librarians and some of our own student workers worked through the Escape Room and provided some excellent feedback.
Escape Room 1 - Blind Willie McTell: Basic Research
Fall of 2018 we marketed our Escape Room (created for First Year Experience Students) to an FYE instructor teaching on the theme of Bulloch County History. Mr. Tyson Davis, was thrilled with what he saw, and made the Escape Room one of the required assignments for his class. He created groups of six students and gave them the entire month of September to participate in the activity. Toward the end of September, we had a request from one of Tyson's departmental colleagues to have her FYE class participate in the activity. All total, by October 1, we will have run approximately 72 students through this event. We've been pleased with the response, and also pleased with their reflection writings. We have shared some of these with you on the Reflection Time tab of this guide.
