[aisle] Virtual Battle of the Books

[Michele Whisenhunt]

Amy, thanks!

On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 3:42 PM Amy Phillips via AISLE <
aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> Michelle, right now google meet doesn’t have that feature (it’s coming)
> but there is an add on that allows you to do this.
>
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 3:40 PM Michele Whisenhunt via AISLE <
> aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know if Google Meet has a similar "Breakout Rooms" feature? I
>> like this idea, but we are not allowed to use Zoom.
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 3:36 PM Kathy Garneau via AISLE <
>> aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
>>
>>> We ran one last June by Zoom! It worked! It was actually a lot of fun.
>>> We used breakout rooms with 4 students and a teacher. We gave around 5
>>> minutes in the breakout where the teacher asked about 10 questions with 30
>>> seconds to answer. We only need the full 30 seconds for the books
>>> they didn't recognize, so we never ran out of time, most books took 5-10
>>> seconds to answer. The 4 kids would give their best answer and the teacher
>>> would keep score. After 5 minutes we went back to the main room and the
>>> teachers gave the scores for the teams. We kept repeating this for a good
>>> 30-45 minutes. It was so much fun! The teachers had matching sets of
>>> questions and we just went in order down the list. If we finished early we
>>> ended our room and returned and waited for the others and talked about how
>>> we did, what we forgot and what we got right.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 1:59 PM Flaherty, Megan via AISLE <
>>> aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I hope your school years are off to a good start or you are feeling
>>>> ready for a new year to start.
>>>>
>>>> I am wondering if anyone is planning on organizing a virtual Battle of
>>>> the Books competition this year? I have never done a regular Battle of the
>>>> Books competition but I am assuming it would not be difficult to hold
>>>> competitions via Zoom or other video chat platform. I am planning on
>>>> running one for our 3rd-5th grade students and our 6th-8th grade
>>>> students using the short 10 book list.
>>>>
>>>> Please reach out to me if you would be interested in brainstorming a
>>>> virtual Battle of the Books and possibly competing sometime in March!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Megan Flaherty-Handoyo
>>>>
>>>> Library Media Specialist
>>>>
>>>> Westview Hills Middle School
>>>>
>>>> mflaherty at maercker.org
>>>>
>>>> 630-353-9193
>>>>
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