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Teen Tech Week Mini Grant Winners Events

The following events will be funded in part or wholly by Teen Tech Week Mini Grants:

The Elyria Public Library in Elyria, OH will host a lock-in for the Teen Advisory Board. While at the lock-in the TAB members will produce a video for the Teen Summer Reading Program. The teens will enjoy "Dance Dance Revolution," "Guitar Hero II," and computers after the video is completed. The video will be made available to the schools. We will also have Shawn Walsh from North East Ohio Regional Library System come and talk to teens about advance gaming systems.

When La Puente Library (a Los Angeles County Library) opens for the week on Tuesday, March 4, Teen Tech Week kicks off with a digital photography class for teens. Teens will form groups and go outside of the library to take digital pictures. After twenty minutes of shooting, guided by a local artist, YAs will learn how to upload pics and create an online photo album. Lastly, we will assemble, then order a digitally-produced photo album for the YA collection. The next day, following story time, young adult volunteers will help children to create and decorate simple frames, then photograph the families, to practice what they learned the day prior by printing the pics and giving the photos to the story time families. Thursday, to make the information literacy (IL) class less intimidating and more enjoyable, we will have gift card giveaways for correct answers to scavenger hunt queries about databases and other online resources discussed. Following this IL class, YAs will gain collection development experience by shopping online for library books to add to the young adult collection. Friday will be a fun technology day, as teens will have the opportunity to compete in Wii gaming, Guitar Hero, and Dance, Dance Revolution.

The Johnson Public Library in Hackensack, NJ will be celebrating Teen Tech Week by hosting three technology events, a film screening and its very first teen advisory board meeting. Teens will be able to develop their creative side by jamming along on drums, guitar and vocal with the video game Rock Band. In MySpace Remix, they will learn basic HTML skills and websites to help them redesign their MySpaces and other websites. Teens will also learn "What's on the Web?" as they are exposed to fun websites they might not have seen before like Pandora or Last.FM.

The Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County in Mount Vernon, Ohio is hosting a Super Smash Brothers Melee Video Game Tournament on March 5, 2008 from 3-9 P.M. The tournament will have spots for 36 teens, and first, second and third place winners will receive gift certificates from Amazon.com. At the tournament our Video Game Club will also unveil their new video game and gaming book collection, which will be available to the club and for check out at the library.

In Fresno County, teens across the county will participate in DDR at their branch library and then the week will end with a DDR tournament that includes awesome prizes thanks to the mini-grant.

Queens Library at Forest Hills in Forest Hills, NY will launch a "Tech Buddies" program that matches teens with seniors who would like to become better versed in technology. The program will focus on the more entertaining and fun aspects of technology: podcasts, short video, and video games. The selected teens and seniors will gather for Wii games and snacks during Teen Tech Week and continue to meet the next 10 weeks for tech activities. Beginning in March, follow along with the pilot program at Karen Keys' blog.

Stanton Middle School in Kent, Ohio, will kick off our new STANTON READS!! program for Teen Tech Week. We will be creating READ posters featuring our very own students, teachers and administrators. Our students will be photographed holding a book they wish to encourage others to read. They will incorporate their photograph into a READ poster using the ALA READ software. Our personalized READ posters will be printed and displayed throughout our library to excite our school family to read. Teachers and administrators will be featured with their book choices, too. Students will also provide a synopsis of their book choice which will be displayed on our STANTON READS!! bulletin board.

The Creswell Library /Lane Library District is hosting gaming events at the library 2 days this week to celebrate Teen Tech Week! Thanks to the mini grant from D&D and YALSA, We are jumpstarting monthly gaming at the library with DDR and Guitar Hero projected on our big screen. Results will be posted on our myspace page: www.myspace.com/creswelllibrary

Teen Tech Week comes at a perfect time for Fletcher Free Library in Burlington, VT, as we have recently developed teen services. Teen Tech Week will allow us to jumpstart our brand new gaming series of open play and tournament events. On March 7 we will hold an after-school gaming event with Guitar Hero, Wii Sports, and DDR projected on big screens and new televisions. Prizes will be awarded and results will be posted on our new blog. At the "Heroes and Revolutions" gaming event March 7, we will also announce the winners of our "Dig Beyond Google" internet searching contest that asks teens to search through bias and misinformation on the web. To celebrate the Tune In theme at the library, the new Teen Advisory Board and teen book clubs will post soundtracks to their favorite books on a big iPod display. We will also emphasize our new free guitar lessons, offered on March 6. And finally, on March 5 we are initiating a drop-in computer bank for teens to use creative software.

Teens...Name Your Game @ the Bedford Public Library, Texas

Area 51 Teens will be hosting a free Teen Gaming Tournament on Friday, March 7 at 6:30 m. We have a date, BUT WE NEED A GAME! Vote for your GAME at the Name Your Game Survey. Voting ends Wednesday, February 20. Attend the Area 51 meeting on Saturday, February 23 at 3:00 pm in the library to see which game will be played at the Tournament. Teens attending the meeting will also help plan the event. To learn more about Area 51 Teen Events visit the Bedford Public Library Blog.

The Andover West Middle School Library in Andover, Massachusetts will be rocking on Friday, March 7, from 2:15 to 5:00 when FOSL (Friends of the School Library) hosts ROCK OUT! An afternoon of Guitar Hero fun! Teen participants will be entered to win prizes, enjoy refreshments, and be exposed to services they may not have realized are available in their library. WMS Teen Tech Week Page.

The Robert W. Rowe Library in Sheridan, Illinois will be hosting several Teen programs at our library. On MArch 4th, we are having Using your I-Pod, learning the basics of downloading music and files to your I-Pod. Also finding new things you can do with your I-Pod. All teens attending the program will be eligible to win a $10.00 I-Tunes gift card. On March 6, 2008 there will be a Karaoke Contest for Teens, come sing your favorite song and win a prize. On April 8, we be hosting the program Blogging for Teens, using Blogger, teens will learn how to create and manage their own blog. The basics of posting and commenting on other's blogs will addressed for those that are new to blogging as will online safety tips and searching for blogs of interest. In May we will be hosting a Guitar Hero tournament on our newly purchased Wii game system. In June a DDR Dance Revolution will be held for teens. All programs will include refreshments and prizes. and we hope to promote all the services the library has to offer.


The Carver County Library (Minnesota) used the mini grant to funds to purchase both Playstation 2 and Wii gaming consoles along with additional accessories that can be used for ongoing teen programming. We will kick off this new programming initiative with gaming events at all five Carver County Library branches during Teen Tech Week. Four of the five branches are offering Guitar Hero programs and the other branch will be dancing along with DDR. Between the branches there will be a teen gaming event in the afternoon or evening of every day of the week. Teen Tech week is the perfect time to kick off a new teen programming initiative. The goal is to have regular teen gaming programs in the library branches under the banner of “Get Your Game On.”


La Habra teens produce and direct @ the library!

Teens at La Habra Branch Library (Orange County Public Library, California) have created puppets and a script for a video about the branch. We'll use the funds to buy a flip camera for the filming and will load the video to YouTube, the library's My Space site, and hopefully our library website. This will be the first of many videos we will film.


Marketing & Promoting Teen Tech Week

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Teen Books about Music & Media

Music

Teen fiction and non-fiction regarding music!

Fiction

Armstrong, Jennifer (ed). What a Song Can Do: 12 Riffs on the Power of Music. Knopf, 2004. David Levithan, Gail Giles and others share short stories about the power of music.

Banks, Steven. King of the Creeps. Alfred Knopf, 2006. In 1963, geeky Tom discovers a resemblance to Bob Dylan and decides to pretend that he, too, is a folksinger. Books for the Teen Age, 2007

Castellucci, Cecil. Beige. Candlewick, 2007. Beige is the nickname that given to Katy when she spends the summer in LA with her legendary punk rock drummer father. The nickname is supposed to reflect how nondescript she is in the land of glamour, fame, and punk music. Will Katy find her punk?

Clements, Andrew. Things Hoped For. Philomel-Penguin, 2006. An aspiring violinist finds herself distracted from her impending auditions for three prestigious music schools when her grandfather disappears. Books for the Teen Age, 2007.

Cohn, Rachel. Pop Princess. Simon, 2005. It's a Sweet Sixteen birthday for Wonder Blake when the unpopular Dairy Queen worker is awarded a recording contract. On her rise to the top, though Wonder finds out that things can easily turn sour.

Cohn, Rachel & Levithan, David. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. Alfred A. Knopf-Random, 2007. The New York club scene forms the basis of this book about music, love, and life. BBYA Quick Picks for Reluctant Teen Readers

Dessen, Sarah. Just Listen. Viking, 2006. Annabel turns her back on everything: a part-time modeling career, her friends, and her family and the only thing that grounds her is her new friend, music-loving Owen and the playlists that he creates for her. BBYA

Flinn, Alex. Diva. Harper, 2006. Caitlin wishes for nothing more than to sing opera and despite family troubles, starting a new school where she has trouble fitting in, and obsessing about her weight, she just might make it in this novel told in the form of an online journal.

Going, K. L. Fat Kid Rules the World. Speak-Penguin, 2004. Skinny Curt recruits overweight and suicidal Troy as the drummer for his rock band and they both form and unlikely team.

Hugh, Mark Peter. Lemonade Mouth. Delacorte, 2007. The nerd, the fat kid, the new kid, and the freak use diary entries to tell the story of how they formed the rock band Lemonade Mouth and found local fame.

Korman, Gordon. Born to Rock. Hyperion, 2006. Leo has everything going for him: President of the Young Republican's Club, his acceptance at Harvard seems guaranteed. But, when he's embroiled in a scandal, he joins a punk rock band as a roadie in the hopes that its star, King Maggot might be his father and might be able to help him. Quick Picks for Reluctant Teen Readers, Books for the Teenage, 2007

Krovatin, Chris. Heavy Metal and You. Push, 2006. Sam is all about heavy metal but he meets straight-laced Melissa and is tempted to change his ways for her in this book written by a teenager.

McDonald, Janet. Harlem Hustle. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2006. Eric Hustle Samson thinks he on the road to rap stardom but he finds the way littered with a probation officer, corruption in the rap industry, and a misunderstanding of who he really is. Luckily, he also discovers poetry, his African American heritage, and himself along his journey.

Powell, Randy. Tribute to Another Dead Rock Star. Sunburst, 2003. Grady's life is about to change when he finds himself visiting Seattle for the tribute to his dead heavy metal rock star mother.

Sheldon, Dyan. Confessions of a Hollywood Star. Candlewick, 2006. When a movie begins filming in her hometown, Lola does everything it takes to get a role as an extra on the film in this sequel to Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (Candlewick, 1999).

Westerfeld, Scott. The Last Days. Razorbill-Penguin, 2007. In this sequel to Peeps, five teenagers find themselves fighting a vampiric epidemic and a growing apocalypse by forming a paranormal rock band specializing in hypnotic music.

Nonfiction

Tanner, Mike. Flat-Out Rock: Ten Great Bands of the 60s. Annick, 2006. Tanner profiles Bob Dylan, The Beatles, The Who, The Doors, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Rolling Stones, Neil Young and Crosby, Stills and Nash, and Led Zeppelin while discussing 60s rock in general. Books for the Teen Age, 2007

Movies & Television

Below are teen books with movie or television themes.

Fiction

Castellucci, Cecil. Boy Proof. Candlewick, 2006. Egg, named after her favorite sci-fi heroine retreats from her tv-star mother, award winning make-up artist father, and any potential boyfriend by shaving her head, wearing bioinformatics online]a white cloak, and studying to become valedictorian. But, when Max enters the picture, Egg might not be as boy-proof as she thinks. BBYA, ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers

Collins, Yvonne. The Black Sheep. Hyperion, 2007. The grass isn't necessarily greener for 15-year-old Kenya when she is picked to appear on a reality TV show where teens switch families.

Czech, Jan. Grace Happens. Speak-Penguin, 2007. Grace is tired of living in her movie-star Mothers shadow and hopes that a visit to Martha's Vineyard will allow her the chance to be normal.

Howell, Simmone. Notes from the Teenage Underground. Bloomsbury, 2007. Three teens create an underground film and find their friendship tested.

Mack, Tracy. Birdland. Scholastic, 2005. A school project filming a documentary of his New York City neighborhood reminds Jed of his older brother, an aspiring poet, who died the year before. BBYA 2004.

Nonfiction

Dougall, Alastair. James Bond: The Secret World of 007. DK, 2006. This guide to all things Bond details the history of the characters, recounts all the movies, and includes gadgets galore.

Figgis, Mike. Digital Filmmaking. Faber & Faber, 2007. The director of Leaving Las Vegas describes the step-by-step process of making a digital movie.

Hamlett, Christina. Screenwriting for Teens: The 100 Principles of Screenwriting Every Budding Writer Must Know. Michael Wiese Productions, 2006. Learn the basics of screenwriting in this book written especially for teens.

Miller, Ron. Special Effects: An Introduction to Movie Magic. Discover the history of special effects in film and learn how to create your own in this introductory guide.

Vaz, Mark Cotta. Mythic Vision: The Making of Eragon. Random, 2006. Find out how the movie Eragon was made in this book with full-color photographs.

Professional Resources

Use this section of the wiki to share such as blogs, articles, books, and presentations on teens and media that you've found useful.

Fine, Jana. "Six Degrees of..." Young Adult Library Services. 2:2 (41-44), Spring2004.

King, Kevin. "Add Mix and Stir". Voice of Youth Advocates. 29:5 (410-411), Dec2006.

Music and Media Resources

Use this section to share resources about music, i-pods, and any other concept that fit with the 2008 theme, Tune in @ Your Library.


Podcasting

  • Library Success Wiki List of podcasts created through partnership with public libraries and teens.
  • Podcasting Tools, a "a comprehensive podcasting resource detailing everything you need to know about podcasting."
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