“Graduate Student Community in ‘Creativity and IT’” Section of the CreativeIT Wiki
The Why
We know from our interactions that many students currently working on research themes related to “Creativity and IT” live in sparse intellectual environments: not too many researchers in their immediate neighborhood are actively engaged in this type of research. Our goal is to help you to establish, evolve, and sustain a global virtual community interested in “Creativity and IT”.
Most theories of creativity indicate that we learn from others and with others. Our intention is that our envisioned socio-technical environment will help you to become a reflective community helping each other to make progress.
Our objective: to create a “win-win” situation for all participants:
- you have an opportunity to document your research, publicize it, get feedback from peers and established researchers; and
- the community will benefit from the individual contributions (one of the major objective of the NSF program is to build a sustainable and growing research community around the “Creativity and IT”).
The How
To get the “Graduate Student Community in ‘Creativity and IT’” of the ground, we have created a dedicated section in the CreativeIT Wiki at:
http://swiki.cs.colorado.edu/CreativeIT/146
We have seeded this environment with your contact and your contribution to the CC2007 conference.
For the time being (and to honor your right to privacy of your CC2007 submission), we have protected this area of wiki by a group membership during its formative stages (as the process evolves, we can and should discuss whether your site should just be as open as the other parts of the wiki). We would like this community to grow over time: while we have selected you (based on your participation in the CC2007 Graduate Student Symposium), we encourage you to invite other researchers pursuing an advanced degree and engaging in research activities in “Creativity and IT” to join this effort (as we will do as well).
We view this as an opportunity for you to express your creativity by generating interesting ways of presenting your work, developing new ways of fostering interaction with your peers, and contributing to formation of new approaches to cultivating and sharing meaningful academic capital. We invite you to explore new ways to utilize web 2.0 approaches to these ends. We are also willing to provide as much support as is feasible to extend the wiki in ways that foster these goals.
Next Steps
Please indicate your interest in participating in the community building effort (and thereby competing for the rewards) by
- sending us as soon as possible an email message (gerhard@colorado.edu; haleden@colorado.edu; Holger.Dick@Colorado.EDU) to indicate your interest in participating in this community building effort; and
- we will send you instructions at that point on how to register for and contribute to the wiki.
At this point you are ready (with no limits to your creativity to how appealing your site will be) to document your research, publicize it, and get feedback from peers and established researchers.
The Rewards
Last but not least: we will award the best contributions to the wiki (as judged by a panel of external researchers and your own assessment) with a research award (whose exact nature will be determined in the future but we planning to give away fellowships to attend conferences or to visit active research groups in “Creativity and IT” of your choice).
We will organize future events for your community (for previous and currently planned events check out “Workshops” and “Conferences” in the wiki) at conferences, workshops, symposia, and possibly summer schools focused on “Creativity and IT”.
Last modified 14 March 2008 at 4:14 pm by hodie |
