University of Alberta Libraries

Creativity and Student Engagement in Information Literacy

When
Wednesday, November 14 (optional information literacy consultations with Randy and an evening workshop dinner) and Thursday, November 15, 2012 (presentation)

Presenter
Randy B. Hensley

Randy Hensley is Professor and Head of Information Services at Newman Library, Baruch College, City University of New York. He has held positions at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, the University of Washington, and California State University, Chico during a 30+ year career. His experience in developing information literacy credit courses has been enhanced by a variety of collaborative endeavors involving teaching faculty from different disciplines and partnerships with writing centers, learning assistance centers, and first-year programs. He currently manages a ten course information studies curriculum of the Newman Library. He has held numerous elective and appointed positions in state and national library associations, including Chair, ACRL Instruction Section (1997-98) and President, Washington Library Association (1993-1994). As a founding faculty member of ACRL’s Immersion Program, he teaches regularly in this five-day intensive program for improving information literacy teaching practice and program development. He is the 2002 recipient of the ACRL Instruction Section Miriam Dudley Instruction Library Award.

Workshop Abstract
Topic:"Creativity and Student Engagement in Information Literacy"

Part 1: Creativity In Information Literacy Instruction.

The first part of the presentation will focus on the thinking of three people: Margit Misangyi Watts (University of Hawaii), Daniel Pink (writer on work in the 21st Century), and Alane Starko (Creativity In The Classroom). An approach to creative instruction from these three individuals is presented and then participants are engaged in a variety of activities that make the issues understanding and provide a conceptual framework for designing instruction based on them. This can be done from a programmatic, course, class session, and assignment examination.

Part 2: Student Engagement in Information Literacy Teaching & Learning.

This part of the presentation would be based on the speaker's chapter for Craig Gibson’s Student Engagement and Information Literacy text. Considerations will be given to some standard tools for determining evidencers of student engagement such as the National Survey of Student Engagement and bring them into the instructional design process, again using the programmatic, course, class session, and assignment prisms.

Where
Faith & Life Centre (Map), Augustana Campus, University of Alberta
Camrose (Map), Alberta (Map)
Driving Directions to Augustana
Printable driving directions with maps (PDF)
Parking is free, requires no permit, and is allowed in any parking lot stall on campus that does not have an electrical plug.
Camrose is approximately a one-hour drive south-east of Edmonton.

Target Audience
Reference/instruction librarians, library administrators, teaching faculty, and graduate students in library and information studies.

Past Workshops
Information on past workshops is available here.

Additional Information
Nancy Goebel, Head Librarian
Augustana Campus Library, University of Alberta
4901 46 Avenue
Camrose AB  T4V 2R3
Canada
ph: 780.679.1189
fax: 780.679.1594
nancy.goebel@ualberta.ca