Update, Week 2: InfoLit course (EDT 110)
Tuesday in class, Cheryl and I tried something new. In addition to our guest speaker, Becky Garvin from Project READ (our community partner), and introducing the concept of the Invisible Web and some advanced Google search techniques, we also assigned the students a team-building activity. The students were put into teams (the teams they will be working with throughout the quarter on their research portfolios) to build a tower using only spaghetti and marshmallows. After they built their towers, we discussed their group process and how they worked as teams. We hope it will help foster a