Presentations

DML 2013
"Michigan Makers: A Middle School Makerspace"

March 2013

When a group of ambitious middle schoolers, an energetic librarian, an enthusiastic professor, and geeky graduate student mentors collaborated, they infused an existing programming club with makerspace culture. The resulting Michigan Makers after-school program runs on four basic principles:

1. A workshop model to balance skill acquisition with time for exploration.
2. Low-cost tools to democratize access.
3. Mentoring to develop positive relationships.
4. Focus on teaming to promote the development of social skills.

We’ll share our service learning model, discuss what we have learned about a “just-right” balance of structure and choice, and share how our middle schoolers define themselves and their makerspace. In the mood to tinker? We’ll bring along some of the low-cost computing options (like Raspberry Pi and Arduino) that we use to cultivate teamwork, creative thinking, and a sense of agency.

What Open Education Means to Me: Open Ed Week Lightening Talk
"Extending Open Education: What does it Mean for Middle Schoolers?"

March 2013

In this talk, I discussed how the educational instruction that I lead in conjunction with Open.Michigan and P2PU influenced me to bridge my interest in Open Education and working with youth in the Michigan Makers after school program. I shared my process of adjusting the educational lesson on Creative Commons for a new audience and the outcomes, verbal and digital, that were a result of this lesson. Access the PDF of my presentation here.

Badging for Learning in Libraries
InfOHIO Webinar

January 2013

Collecting online badges as signs of acquired skills or new learnings is an emerging concept in both formal and informal learning environments. Cloth badges defined scouting and gave scouts a way of displaying their skills (via sashes, kerchiefs, or vests). How can moving that practice online -- and creating digital backpacks with digital badges that also demonstrate new skills and abilities -- transform learning? How can the microcredentialing aspect of digital badging help to capture skills that are not reflected on formal academic transcripts? How can librarians use badges to empower informal learning in powerful ways that transcend current practice and empower patrons, colleagues, and students? The presenters, a team from the University of Michigan School of Information who badged October's OELMA conference, will share an overview of digital badging, discuss how badging can move beyond extrinsic motivation and into a meaningful representation of skills, and share tips for effective practice.
View the presentation and listen to the recording here.

Michigan Library Association (MLA) Conference
"Tomorrow's Professionals"

Detroit, MI
November 2012

"Since the recent deployment of the Mozilla Open Badges Infrastructure and the Digital Media and Learning Competition, badges have been on a lot of people's minds.  This poster seeks to answer the practical questions surrounding badges and help librarians understand the pedagogical and technical concerns in developing their own badge systems to reveal and reward informal learning.  After interacting with this poster, participants will be be able to demonstrate a firm grasp of digital badging and feel confident enough to explore badges in their own libraries.  This poster specifically targets public librarians, however the information presented here will still have enormous impact on academic and school librarians as this trend continues to grow.  Walk through the badge building process with two library students and DML finalists and see how they are using badges to support learning in different communities." 
Full presentation can be viewed here.

WIDE-EMU 2012
"Keep it Open: Building Public Sites in the Wild"

Lansing, MI
October 2012
Taught a workshop on developing personal and reusing other Creative Commons content in public sites on the internet. Attendees learned about and explored resources that encouraged Creative Common material use and promoted ease in the process. More can be read about the workshop in my blog post and resources from the workshop can be found here: Presentation, Presentation PDF, and Resource List

Ohio Educational Library Media Association (OELMA) 
Conference
"Badges for Learning"

Sandusky, OH
October 2012
"Since the recent deployment of the Mozilla Open Badges Infrastructure and the Digital Media and Learning Competition, badges have been on a lot of people's minds. Walk through the badge building process with two library students and DML finalists and see how they are using badges to support learning in different communities."

Resources Website and Handout that complimented the Poster.

Digital Media and Learning Competition

San Francisco, CA 
February 2012
Stages 2 Finalists/ Stage 3 Presenters
Collaborated with a core UMSI group and a Florida public school to establish a web based educational community that utilized badges. The platform focused on  teacher mastery and certification in the STEM disciplinary categories of K-12 education. 

Publications

Davenport, Kelly, Sharona Ginsberg, Victoria Lungu, and Shauna Masura. "Student Conference Experiments with Open Badges." OpenSource.Com. N.p., 26 Mar. 2013. Web.
Fontichiaro, Kristin, Sharona Ginsberg, Victoria Lungu, Shauna Masura, and Samantha Roslund. "Badging A Conference." School Library Monthly April 29.7 (2013): 5-8. Print.









Lungu, Victoria O. "Living in a Free World: How Open Content and Creative Commons Taught Me to Teach Others about Digital Citizenship" Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Information Literacy But Were Afraid To Google. Ed. Kristin Fontichiaro. 18 Dec. 2012.


A Digital Copy can be downloaded here.