Creative literacy workshop in Turku, summer 2014
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The EU Lifelong Learning Program’s Finnish office CIMO (Centre for International Mobility) has given a grant to Turku City Library to arrange a Grundtvig workshop titled Creative Literacy. The workshop was held in conjunction with the Turku Women’s Centre. The aims of the workshop were to inspire international cooperation, develop interactive processes and to assist participants in the development of professional skills. The participants have been chosen based on personal applications. The workshop was in Turku in early June 2014.
SUMMARY OF CREATIVE LITERACY - workshop
At the center: CREATIVE AND OPEN ATTITUDE, OWN INSPIRATION
The workshop was designed based on report of EU High Level Group of Experts,September 2012.
"We need to realise that reading and writing are much more than a technique or a skill. Literacy is about people’s self-esteem and ability to function and flourish in society as private individuals, active citizens, employees, or parents. Our societies need to face this hidden crisis and all need to act, and act together, to boost literacy levels and to reduce illiteracy."
In the beginning of the workshop there was no presentation of the participants, no organization, no background information to not create any prior assumptions. People were taken as individuals and they represented themselves. The participants were selected in such a way that the group was as versatile as possible (country, age, gender, work).
In pre tasks (personal collage) there was given the opportunity in a creative way to tell about your self.
1. Important part of working were the preliminary tasks.
The preliminary tasks had many purposes:
2. On the workshop days in Turku and Raisio we tried to develop and encourage participant´s positive attitudes towards creativity. To discover the fact that there are possibilities to find suitable forms to support learning literacy which are fresh and eye-catching to each group and individuals
INFORMATIONAL PART:
INTRODUCTIONS OF THE INSTRUMENTS TO CREATE CREATIVE CLIMATE
TRAINING OF METHODS
1. reading support methods
2. Working methods based on different art forms
3. Technical skills
SUMMARY OF CREATIVE LITERACY - workshop
At the center: CREATIVE AND OPEN ATTITUDE, OWN INSPIRATION
The workshop was designed based on report of EU High Level Group of Experts,September 2012.
"We need to realise that reading and writing are much more than a technique or a skill. Literacy is about people’s self-esteem and ability to function and flourish in society as private individuals, active citizens, employees, or parents. Our societies need to face this hidden crisis and all need to act, and act together, to boost literacy levels and to reduce illiteracy."
In the beginning of the workshop there was no presentation of the participants, no organization, no background information to not create any prior assumptions. People were taken as individuals and they represented themselves. The participants were selected in such a way that the group was as versatile as possible (country, age, gender, work).
In pre tasks (personal collage) there was given the opportunity in a creative way to tell about your self.
1. Important part of working were the preliminary tasks.
The preliminary tasks had many purposes:
- Introduction of the (getting to know to one another) participants
- Information on what is the concept of today's literacy, multi-literacy.
- by using Facebook in making the preliminary tasks there was aim to promote group formation already before the actual workshop.
2. On the workshop days in Turku and Raisio we tried to develop and encourage participant´s positive attitudes towards creativity. To discover the fact that there are possibilities to find suitable forms to support learning literacy which are fresh and eye-catching to each group and individuals
INFORMATIONAL PART:
- Defining and internalization the concept of multi-literacy
- Library tour (Little Red Riding Hood, the profile of poem)
- Aboa Vetus: Letter by letter- exhibition
- Raisio library: Tove Jansson - Leo Kinnunen - exhibitions and presentation of "Pegasus parking spot" at the children's department
- Ruissalo: the nature as source of inspiration of creativity
INTRODUCTIONS OF THE INSTRUMENTS TO CREATE CREATIVE CLIMATE
- Welcoming presentation to the workshop
- Common presentations of library tour and dancing tango
- Creative cooking at Martti cultural living room-centre
- At Ruissalo naturepark: campfire circuit
- Classical music concert (The Academy Orchestra at the Åbo Akademi University)
TRAINING OF METHODS
1. reading support methods
- thematic work
- discovery of the core points int the text (mind mapping and tag cloud techniques)
- the role exchange -method
- learning cafe -method
- pair working, group working, team working
2. Working methods based on different art forms
- Monday: drama, video, and digital-newspaper workshops (team work)
- Tuesday: calligraphy, puppet theater and mask theater workshops (individual exercises, pair work), the evening of creative cooking (group work)
3. Technical skills
- image processing
- audio programs (search, download, transfer, collages)
- social media knowhow: Fb, Google searches, Free sound and Audacity programmes
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