Information Literacy Summit - Moraine Valley Community College

THEME - “INSPIRING CREATIVITY”April 19, 2011

KEYNOTE - “The Creativity Dynamic for Today’s Library”
Randy Hensley, Head of Reference, Newman Library, Baruch College, City University of New York.

Creativity
1. About starting in an unusual place
2. About solving problems
3. About not having pre-determined rules

Who are my creative heroes?

Brain laterality
Goal is to connect the two hemispheres and think of ways to allow the right brain to be involved. Think of sensory experiences, more iterative process with struggles, stops & starts
1. Left – giving meaning, analysis, language, logic
2. Right – emotions, intuition, images stored,

Margit Misangyi Watts – 4 Channels to get information to solve problems
1. Experience – consider analogous but not identical experience
2. Observation – sensory awareness & add empathy
3. Authority – voices of others, what would dog do?
4. Reflection – analytical or reflective – What if? I wonder?

Daniel Pink “A Whole New Mind” and “Drive”
We need to be a whole lot more creative, nimble & create environments for wok as a place for play and artistry.Information Age has led to the Conceptual Age

Conceptual Age
· wants clear purpose, intrinsic motivation, clear meaning.
· high concept products – what is motivating narrative?
· higher touch – motivate ourselves & look beyond common place to find purpose
· More emotion & beauty need to be present
· Detecting patterns and opportunities
· Empathy, play, meaning, design, symphony, etc.
· Less important - Function & efficiency and not primarily source of solutions

Key Take Aways
· Design – beautiful, emotionally engaging
· Story – compelling narrative
· Symphony – synthesis, big picture
· Empathy – understand diverse people & care about them
· Play – games, not just sobriety, laughter

Ideo at Stanford University – must have different voices in the room (get their app)

QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION
1) What does creativity look like in your context?
2) What does creativity look like in different contexts?
3) How will you change what you do or think after today?
4) What can we do next as a broad community?

Plagiarism - Who wrote it anyway?

If you read the following NYT article Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age you will start to understand why so many students don't see the error of plagiarism. 40% admit to having borrowed other's words, and only 29% say that copying from the web is "serious cheating" per a study of 14,000 undergraduate surveyed 2006-2010 by "Donald L. McCabe, a co-founder of the Center for Academic Integrity and a business professor at Rutgers University." (See NYT article) Image taken from - http://www.zunal.com/webquest.php?w=16733 - Was using this graphic legal??? (My idea)

Sure the above quote is common knowledge, i.e. the person's position and affiliation with said organization, but I too copied and pasted it verbatim, as it was what I need to attribute the statistics . . . at least I gave the attribution, right? (My idea)

Per the NTY article students can readily find the stuff they need online, yet because it isn't a physical entity it seems to immediately belong to them to manipulate and use as needed. Even if this was a physical entity, the fact that there is often no clear author or authority behind the information found, i.e. Wikipedia, means that it seems to be fair game for usage without attribution.

Furthermore our world seems to be changing from the era of the 60s where uniqueness and authenticity was valued to an era in which students rather want to try on "many different personas" - "MyWord!: Plagiarism and College Culture" by Susan Blum.

The result to this modern information soceity is that we can't tell who did what, said what, or wrote what anymore. All of course is not a loss, as we are recreating things and connecting in various ways with the information. Ways we never could have imagined before. (My idea)

Notice my own week attempt to attribute ideas in this post - at least I tried!

I.e. these ideas are not my own, apart from the ones I noted as (My idea).
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Jana

Undergraduate Research Engine

I've found the following customized google search tool useful for helping to narrow the results to more quality resources for undergraduate research.

Start using the Undergraduate Research Engine. So far I've been thrilled with the results. A student shortened the url in my Library Instruction class to http://tiny.cc/ure

Thanks go to David Dillard, a reference librarian at Temple University, for creating this cutomized search box. I read about this on his yahoo group, NetGold and have contacted him regarding how this tool was created, i.e. what limiters he set up.

Hooked on Gadgets - Interesting to consider . . .

READ ARTICLE - Hooked on Gadgets and Paying a Mental Price

I will really take a look at this and consider if I need more peacefulness and less gadgetry in my own existence.

Netvibes - Dashboard - READY

Hi Everyone - CLICK to see the public version of the Netvibes dashboard I created.

I have tabs for -

• General News & Information
  
• Information Literacy
  
• Technology
  
• Music

This is an easy to use site, so try setting one up for yourself.