Engaging

I read this article on 10 Easy Ways to Engage Students. It was helpful, in that it provided an accurate, and yet academic way to engage students. Often when I hear statements like that or terms like "edutainment" encouraged over and over again I get discouraged because it seems like people want to turn the educational world into entertainment, as if that was the only way to reach students. But it's not, so I want to figure out how to reach them without missing the point, without giving away time that needs to be spent educating. And yet I don't want to lose students in the process.
Here are a few ideas I have:- Introduce the class by having students break up and find definitions to "Information" "Literacy" and "Information Literacy"- Have class introduce themselves on the board, along with their major and a topic.- On plagiarism lesson, have students take sides and debate the issue. - ???