eli07netsavvysession

Joan Lippincott, associate executive director of the Coalition for Networked Information, contributed a video interview to the ELI 2007 Fall Focus Session, Being Net Savvy: Developing Skills for A Rapidly Changing World. Here's her description of it:

"My daughter, Meg Lippincott, a sophomore at Vassar College, has been working at her college library reference desk and occasionally sharing some observations with me about how students seek information for their academic work.  I interviewed her for a brief video for the ELI Focus Session on net savvy students.  Her friend Jan Zhan, a student at University of Maryland, did the camera work.  Meg discusses some aspects of information literacy, the way she learned to use some math software, and her definition of a 'net savvy student.'"  --Joan Lippincott

In this podcast, we feature 15 minute interview with Craig Gibson, Associate University Librarian at George Mason University. This interview was recorded at the ELI 2007 Fall Focus Session in Boulder, Colorado, where Mr. Gibson presented a speech entitled, "Prisms Around Student Learning: Information Literacy, IT Fluency, and Media Literacy". A podcast of that speech can be found here.

In this 12 minute podcast, we feature an interview with Leslie Dare, Director of Distance Education & Tech Services for Student Affairs at North Carolina State University. She presented a plenary session at the 2007 ELI Fall Focus Session entitled, "Keeping Pace with the Net Generation: A Student Affairs Perspective"

The student affairs division can be a valuable partner in developing a campus response to Net Generation issues. In addition to improving the “Net IQ” of staff on campus, student affairs can and should play a significant role in assessing the impact of technology on student development and behavior, crafting policies and procedures, and educating students about technology rights and responsibilities.

I was interviewed at the ELI 2007 Fall Focus Session, which is an EDUCAUSE initiative. Here is the podcast of that interview, which is a summary of the presentation I made at this event. Materials from my presentation (and all the other presentations as well) are now available. There are a number of other podcasts from this event available as well; look for the ELI07netsavvy tag.

Here is a video we produced just for the recent ELI focus session on being net savvy.  We interviewed a number of students on campus and pulled together a video that echoes our findings from our ongoing study of UMN student experiences with, perceptions of, and attitudes towards educational technology. 

Details about our faculty and student surveys are available on our web site at:

http://dmc.umn.edu/surveys/

In this podcast, we feature an eight minute interview with Bradley A. Cohen, Assistant Director and Coordinator for Curriculum Development at the University of Minnesota. This interview was recorded at the 2007 ELI Fall Focus Session in Boulder, Colorado where Mr. Cohen presented a session entitled, "Faculty Development and the Net Savvy Student".

Brad Cohen discusses the digital divide and shares guiding principles the University of Minnesota uses to deliver an integrated suite of faculty development programs designed to help faculty meet the needs of net savvy students. The University of Minnesota's approach is informed by the data routinely collected from their students and faculty, the literature, and their practice.

Northern Arizona University's advisory committee to the provost on academic computing matters has created a list of technical literacy goals for NAU students. The work on this started in 2004 with a survey of faculty, then continued with various discussions headed by a committee of faculty, eLearning and IT staff. The document was completed in Spring 2006 as a recommendation to the Provost. Though no comprehensive  program is in place to either assess nor to develop the student literacy skills, the goals are there. It may be time to revise these and use what I think is a more current and accurate name, and call these fluency goals.

Please note the triangle or pyramid graphic on page 4 showing the foundation of ethics and privacy.

Don Carter

In this 37 minute podcast, we feature the opening plenary session from the ELI Fall 2007 Focus Session. The speaker is Craig Gibson, Associate University Librarian at George Mason University. His speech is entitled, "Prisms Around Student Learning: Information Literacy, IT Fluency, and Media Literacy"

The family of literacies now promoted in higher education (information literacy, IT fluency, and media and visual literacies) continues to multiply. These educational agendas call for more pervasive collaboration among all stakeholders (faculty, administrators, librarians, technologists, student life staff, assessment specialists, and others) because of conceptual and programmatic linkages and convergences among them. The blending of these literacies can become a catalyst that taps into student learning and engagement at a deep level and effects cultural change within and across institutions.

In this 12 minute podcast, we feature an interview with Kathleen Tyner, Assistant Professor of Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. She presented a speech at the ELI 2007 Fall Focus Session entitled, "One Click at a Time: How Net Savvy Learners Are Transforming Educational Institutions".

Here are two blogs associated with my participation in the Fall 2007 ELI Focus Session.

Blog Name: Leslie DareDescription: This is my professional blog about my experiences in my job at NC State University.URL: http://blogs.lib.ncsu.edu/page/lesliedare

Blog Name: Table 8Description: This is a space where seven participants in the ELI Fall 2007 Focus Session will document our efforts to take what we learned back to our home campuses.URL: http://eli-table8.blogspot.com/