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Teen Tech Week Resources
VoiceThread Presentations | Literature & Presentations | Tech Guides | YALSA Handouts
YALSA Social Networking Guides | Software for Tech Programs @ your library
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VoiceThread Presentations
The 2008-2009 Teen Tech Week committee used VoiceThread to create multimedia, interactive presentations to help you celebrate Teen Tech Week at your library. You can leave comments and discuss the presentations at VoiceThread just follow the directions in this guide to VoiceThread commenting (PDF).
Getting Started with Teen Tech Week
Teen Tech Week in School Libraries & Media Centers
See the Works Cited list (PDF) for further reading.
Teen Tech Week on a Budget
Literature & Presentations
Beyond Gaming Tournaments, presentation sponsored by the YALSA Gaming Interest Group.
Czarnecki, Kelly, compiler. "Top Fifty Gaming Core Collection Titles." Young Adult Library Services 5 (Winter 2008): 36-38, 48.
Honnold, RoseMary for YALSA. Get Connected: Tech Programs for Teens. New York: Neal-Schuman and YALSA, 2007.
Harris, Frances Jacobson. "Teen Tech Week, Despite Limited Access," School Library Journal, Feb. 1, 2008.
Iser, Stephanie and Joseph Wilk. "Verso: Get Ready for Teen Tech Week". Public Libraries 47 (Jan/Feb 2008): 16.
Iser, Stephanie. "Partnerships for Teen Tech Week." Young Adult Library Services 5 (Winter 2008): 24-26.
Pritchard, Kate and Jaina Lewis. "Music Web Sites for Teen Tech Week and Beyond." Young Adult Library Services 5 (Winter 2008): 33-35.
Saxton, Beth. "Information Tools: Using Blogs, RSS, and Wikis as Professional Resources." Young Adult Library Services 5 (Winter 2008): 27-29.
Welch, Rollie. "From Platforms to Books? I'm Game." Young Adult Library Services 5 (Winter 2008): 30-31.
Tech Guides
Created for Teen Tech Week 2007, the following guides will help you keep abreast of current technologies and offer suggestions on how you can use them in a public or school library program.
Tech Guide Number 1: Making Music with Teens (and Supplemental Guide) by Joseph Wilk (PDF)
Tech Guide Number 2: Online Surveys (PDF)
Tech Guide Number 3: Virtual Worlds (PDF) Revised January 2008!
Tech Guide Number 4: RSS, Blogs, and Wikis (PDF)
Tech Guide Number 5: Gaming (PDF)
Tech Guide Number 6: Podcasts (PDF)
Sponsored Tech Guide: Dungeons & Dragons @ your library (PDF)
YALSA Handouts
10 Steps for a Successful Teen Tech Week
Want to make sure your Teen Tech Week celebration is successful? Use this checklist (PDF) of YALSA resources to prepare!
50 Things to Improve Your Tech IQ
Librarians serving teens need to stay abreast of emerging technologies so they can guide teens in using these resources ethically and be a source of help. How many new social networking web sites are you familiar with? How many tech things can you do? Download 50 Things to Improve your Tech IQ (PDF) to see where you stand in your technology endeavors.
25 Ways to Celebrate Teen Tech Week
Encourage your teens to get involved! Download the 25 Ways to Celebrate Teen Tech Week flyer (PDF) and pass it out at your library.
YALSA's Social Networking Guides
Online social networking is a hot topic for those serving teens, with debate about allowing teens to learn how to safely navigate Web 2.0 technology while also keeping them safe. YALSA has created several resources for librarians to use to educate their community members about online social networking technologies and the possibility that federal legislation may require schools and libraries to block Web sites that offer these types of communication tools.
Social Networking Toolkit for Educators and Librarians (PDF; updated in January 2008)
Guide to Social Networking for Teens (PDF)
Learn more at YALSA's online social networking resource page.
Software for Tech Programs @ your library
If you are looking for resources to use to start tech programs at your library as a part of Teen Tech Week, these might help:
Wiki Software
There are several sites you can use to create a wiki. These include:
PBWiki and Wikispaces are both web-based wiki resources that you can use to setup a wiki for free. (They each also have pay versions.) When you setup your wiki you’ll want to think about whether or not you want to limit who can edit wiki pages, if ads are on the pages of the free wiki product, what control you have over the design of the site, and so on. To help make your decision you might use WikiMatrix.
Blogging Software
If you want to get a blog up-and-running you might check out one of these free web-based blog hosting sites:
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