The SPARKY Awards - A Contest to Promote the Open Exchange of Information
Details Awards Judges Entry Form Sponsors Legal
enter now
If you have an apple and I have an apple, and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea, and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
- George Bernard Shaw

2009 Sparky Awards Entries

PICK YOUR FAVORITES FOR THE FIRST PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD!!!!

The organizers of the Sparky Awards now invite students, faculty, librarians, and others on campus to weigh in for their favorites in the first installment of the Sparky People’s Choice Award. The People’s Choice Award highlights all of the 2009 entries, including dozens from campus-based contest hosts at Penn State, Brigham Young, the University of Pennsylvania, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and others. The winner will receive $500 plus a personalized award certificate. To let us know your faves, view the entries below, note the ENTRY NUMBER for up to three selections, and click on VOTE NOW. The deadline to vote for the People’s Choice Award is March 7, 2010.

[[VOTE NOW]]

----------------

Skip to host site: Brigham Young University | Dartmouth College | Goucher College | Greveskogen Videregående Skole | Northern Illinois University | Penn State Digital Commons | Pratt Institute | Rochester Institute of Technology | Savannah College of Art and Design | Southern Illinois University Carbondale | University of Central Florida | University of Florida | University of Houston | University of Illinois Chicago | University of Pennsylvania Libraries | University of Technology, Sydney | University of Tennessee Knoxville | University of Texas El Paso | University of Toronto | University of Victoria | Utah State University

----------------

Brigham Young University

1 >>> This is the entry number!

http://vimeo.com/6223728

Clueless Discovery - by Aaron Ludwig

 

2

http://www.et.byu.edu/~rezyh/sparky/share.html

It's good to Share - by Donald Mark Hyzer

 

3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U85asWtEns

Pinned Down By The Dark - by David Wehle

 

4

http://btoddthompson.com/video/sparky.mov

Buildings - by Ben Thompson

 

Dartmouth College

5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVa5dc3n-Mc

Enlightenment - by Jenny Juarez

 

Goucher College 

6

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp3JM5JyUkY

Grow - by Lyle Hawthorne

 

Greveskogen Videregående Skole 

7

http://www.vimeo.com/8013898

Alien Dust - by Tommy Vad Flaaten

 

8

http://vimeo.com/8014920

The Exchange of Information Saves Lives - by Markus Vad Flaaten

 

Northern Illinois University 

9

http://vimeo.com/8023862

Spark of Genius - by William Newman

[[VOTE NOW]]

Pennsylvania State University 

10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcWX-FphWPU

The POWER of Sharing Information - by Lisa Godiska and Bobby Payment

 

11

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-ijH9Fk0dY

Effective Communication and Information Sharing - by Ralph Nuss

 

12

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7haCYG0dLR4

How to share information with 40,000 people? - by Shannon McErlean

 

13

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW8N7EoTG64

Information Sharing! - by Chelsea Adlam, Michael Graney, Shaylyn Forte, and Paige Twillmann

 

14

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a63QrtHsk7w

Text Messaging: Evolving Communication - by Brad Zelonis

 

15

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAQGTkcPi34

Information  Cards - by David Strader, Cydney Actie, Kristen Harvilla

 

16

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3Nqt6RntqA

Detective Story - by Bryan R. Gillespie

 

17

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXxbZuBe7kQ

Share Information, Save a Child Life - by Anthony Ciulla

 

18

http://digitalcommons.psu.edu/node/10115

 

19

http://digitalcommons.psu.edu/node/10076

 

20

http://digitalcommons.psu.edu/node/10116

 

21

http://digitalcommons.psu.edu/node/10100

 

22

http://digitalcommons.psu.edu/node/10170

 

23

http://digitalcommons.psu.edu/node/10165

 

24

http://digitalcommons.psu.edu/node/10149

 

25

http://digitalcommons.psu.edu/node/10127

 

26

http://digitalcommons.psu.edu/node/10123

 

27

http://digitalcommons.psu.edu/node/10113

 

28

http://digitalcommons.psu.edu/node/10107

 

29

http://digitalcommons.psu.edu/node/10081

 

30

http://digitalcommons.psu.edu/node/10078

 

31

http://digitalcommons.psu.edu/node/10053

 

32

http://digitalcommons.psu.edu/node/9896

 

33

http://digitalcommons.psu.edu/node/10166

 

34

http://digitalcommons.psu.edu/node/10111

 

35

http://digitalcommons.psu.edu/node/9939

 

36

http://digitalcommons.psu.edu/node/10169

 

37

http://digitalcommons.psu.edu/node/10164

 

38

http://digitalcommons.psu.edu/node/10120

 

39

http://digitalcommons.psu.edu/node/10110

 

40

http://digitalcommons.psu.edu/node/10109

 

41

http://digitalcommons.psu.edu/node/10004

 

42

http://digitalcommons.psu.edu/node/10125

 

43

http://digitalcommons.psu.edu/node/10128

 

44

http://digitalcommons.psu.edu/node/10124

 

45

http://digitalcommons.psu.edu/node/10117

 

46

http://digitalcommons.psu.edu/node/10112

 

47

http://digitalcommons.psu.edu/node/10063

 

48

http://digitalcommons.psu.edu/node/9963

 

49

http://digitalcommons.psu.edu/contestentries

 

50

http://digitalcommons.psu.edu/node/10156

 

51

http://digitalcommons.psu.edu/node/10106

 

52

http://digitalcommons.psu.edu/node/10075

 

53

http://digitalcommons.psu.edu/node/9897

 

54

http://digitalcommons.psu.edu/node/10148

 

55

http://digitalcommons.psu.edu/node/10122

 

56

http://digitalcommons.psu.edu/node/10118

 

57

http://digitalcommons.psu.edu/node/10108

 

58

http://digitalcommons.psu.edu/node/10035

 

59

http://digitalcommons.psu.edu/node/9962

 

[[VOTE NOW]]

Pratt Institute

60

http://blip.tv/file/2938361/

We Have the Right to Open Access - by Heather Halliday

 

61

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGDITwxoI6w

INFOmercial - by Anna Welch

 

Rochester Institute of Technology

62

http://www.vimeo.com/8019874

The Unplanned Lesson - by Lauren Tracy

 

Savannah College of Art and Design

63

http://www.vimeo.com/8006296

Share What You've Got - by Kazuyuki Ishii

 

64

http://www.danchosich.com/media/ShareKnowledge.mov

Share Knowledge - by Dan Chosich

 

65

http://vimeo.com/4936988

Lets brighten dark situations! - by Nath Milburn

 

66

http://blip.tv/file/2934719

Happily Ever After - by Mei-ying Chen

 

67

http://www.vimeo.com/7921707

ideas come together - by Danielle Johnson

 

68

http://blip.tv/file/2927744

The Informationers - by Kevin Beisel

 

69

http://www.vimeo.com/8003606

"New Heights" - by Criag Chupinsky

 

70

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_R6Bn12bDI

Communication is the Sharing of Ideas - by Tyne Sebastian

 

71

http://www.vimeo.com/7687927

Process of Sharing - by Tanya Yeremeyeva

 

Southern Illinois University Carbondale

72

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fxyvqqotek

share the knowledge - by shardaria johnson

 

73

http://www.archive.org/details/SharingTheTimeOfDay_393

Sharing the Time of Day - by Riley Tucker

 

113

http://virb.com/nela/videos/6265410

Know info. Know access - by Lauren Roberts
 

University of Technology, Sydney Australia

74

http://www.lib.uts.edu.au/about-uts-library/news-and-communication/videocomp/library-bandits

Library Bandits - by Georgia Markakis

 

75

http://www.lib.uts.edu.au/about-uts-library/news-and-communication/videocomp/library-caveman

Library Caveman - by Georgia Markakis

 

76

http://www.lib.uts.edu.au/about-uts-library/news-and-communication/videocomp/mr-hank

It's the UTS Library with Mr Hank - by Georgia Markakis

 

University of Central Florida

78

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpFkSBja4p4

DIY Fix Blue Screen Thanks to the Internet - by Joshua Economico

 

University of Florida

79

http://vimeo.com/7167124

Sharing Information - by Mary Ogunrinde

 

80

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2wTZgnru3I

The value of sharing information - by Steven Perez

 

81

http://www.archive.org/details/ProgressBreakdown_707

Progress Breakdown - by Bjorn Stange

 

University of Houston

82

http://www.vimeo.com/7318329

The Light of Knowledge - by Mohammad Faizan Majid

 

University of Illinois at Chicago

83

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FD76Nnx0Nfo

Super Access - by Katie Yankowski

 

84

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm5BbRGAuY0

Don't Break the Line - by Kushal Savkur

 

85

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj6Zd-e-5wo

A Very Open Access Christmas - by Lindsay Karson

 

86

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tss_IKvWrpY

Access Denied - by Sohni Choudhary, Daria Orlowska, Jeremy David, Kevin Martinez

 

University of Pennsylvania

87

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQwHUL_GTKQ

Heroes Wash Up - by Ryan A. Leonard

 

88

http://blip.tv/file/2936616

How Information Sharing Saved the World - by Jacob Finkel

 

89

http://www.vimeo.com/8008028

A Wider Audience - by David Lei

[[VOTE NOW]]

University of Tennessee Knoxville

90

http://www.youtube.com/user/HodgesStudio#p/c/7D11AC1F91A2EB47/1/P76C8XSsOh0 

 

91

http://www.youtube.com/user/HodgesStudio#p/c/7D11AC1F91A2EB47/2/Jz4cCRmRJAQ

 

92

http://www.youtube.com/user/HodgesStudio#p/c/7D11AC1F91A2EB47/5/qiXztVxE1CU

 

93

http://www.youtube.com/user/HodgesStudio#p/c/7D11AC1F91A2EB47/6/RU4E6mH39hk

 

96

http://www.youtube.com/user/HodgesStudio#p/c/7D11AC1F91A2EB47/3/TjotGZSIXaY

 

98

http://www.youtube.com/user/HodgesStudio#p/c/7D11AC1F91A2EB47/0/_W4BdesU8aY

 

99

http://www.youtube.com/user/HodgesStudio#p/c/7D11AC1F91A2EB47/4/_vw0wnGHvcc

 

University of Texas at El Paso

100

http://www.vimeo.com/7993269

Joe Informs

 

University of Toronto

77

http://www.sendspace.com/file/qythlk

Basket - Weaving 2.0 - by Polina Golikova

 

101

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpFzViBsPQs

Modern Remix: Romeo and Juliet - by Sophie Shao

 

102

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sDLqvANfKo

Supernova - by Yang Zeng

 

103

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5gIsiGurRA

Ignorance is a Disease... - by JASON DU

 

104

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvaOvh2XooE

Sharing ideas makes your dream come true easily - by Winnie Hua

 

University of Victoria

105

http://web.uvic.ca/~deherman/freedom.html

Free Knowledge - by Dallas Hermanson

 

106

http://www.youtube.com/user/forklakefrogger

 

Utah State University

107

http://itlslabs.usu.edu/~bgeorge/sparky.html

Lego Bridge Building - by Benjamin George

 

UNSPECIFIED

108

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh-ZtxUQQgM

A STORY - by HERMES MANGIALARDO

 

109

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gqcG3vr4yY

Knowledge Is Power - by Hannah Lane

 

110

http://knopf.blip.tv/rss

lessig in a bottle - by Carl Knopf

 

111

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nqwhdVz1dA

by Brandon Hess

 

112

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD61Jw9kVDg

by David Quintana

 

[[VOTE NOW]]