[aisle] Battle of the Books - Pandemic Style -- Need Ideas!

[Kelly Davis]

Hi,

We bought a subscription to Factile and used that so students could choose
their own questions. Last year we had our practices and competitions
virtually. Practices were during lunch and the final battle was after
school. We read questions and then sent students into a breakout room to
discuss the answer. It took longer than in person, but we were happy to be
able to offer the program.

I'm happy to say that we are in person again. We loved factile and we loved
that our battle teams could choose their own questions, so we are using
Factile again this year at our in person battles.

If you have more questions, please feel free to email me directly.


Best Regards,


Mrs. Kelly Burns-Davis

LRC Director

Cossitt School

115 W. Cossitt Avenue

La Grange, IL 60525

708-215-6230


#ReadersRLeaders


On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 8:20 AM Karrie Fisher via AISLE <
aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> I have adapted BOB so many times since the pandemic, but the recent
> mask-optional situation has set my game back to "not happening."  We were
> going to gather in a multi-purpose room with kids being masked and socially
> distanced.  Now with so many kids not wearing masks, my admin doesn't want
> 93 kids in one room.  Good call, in my opinion.
>
> But this leaves me looking for ways to host this game without gathering
> the kids as a whole group.  Teams, yes.   I've thought about having a
> Google Meet game where small numbers of teams are socially distanced in
> classrooms.  My teachers don't want that.
>
> Has anyone done this in small groups, sending the questions to the
> students and having them submit answers on a Google form?  If so, how did
> this look?  Did kids do this after school? In school?
>
> I'm looking for ways to play this game and am feeling frustrated because I
> feel like we've taken a step back -- rather than forward -- with the masks
> coming off.
>
> Thanks for any ideas you have!
>
>
> Happily Ever After,
> Karrie Fisher, Library Media Specialist
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