Results tagged “teens” from Carpe Hootem

There is still time to register for the Adolescent Literacy Workshop coming up next week on Thursday, March 19th! Join a panel of experts and learn about teen brain development, academic success, gaming and literacy, and more. You are encouraged to invite school partners to this workshop to collaborate on an action plan for your community. Register online at http://www.owlsweb.info/ce/classes.asp.

Other great workshops, computer lab classes, and online opportunities are available on the CE page on OWLSweb, so be sure to take a look and sign up to learn something new in the coming days, weeks, and months. Let me know if you have any questions!

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Celebrate YALSA's third annual Teen Tech Week, March 8-14! This year's theme is "Press Play @ Your Library."

Why celebrate?

Teens, in order to gain the skills necessary to compete in today's job market, need access to digital and online information and trained professionals who can help them use these resources effectively, efficiently and ethically. Librarians and educators know this and work with teens on a regular basis to ensure they develop these skills. Teen Tech Week is a chance for libraries to throw open their physical & virtual doors and show their communities all the great things they're doing for teens with technology.

Here's more about the idea behind this year's theme:

Teen Tech Week 2009, which will be celebrated March 8-14, is about connecting teens with different technologies, especially those available through the library. Teens can literally press play on digital devices such as mp3 players, DVD players, gaming controllers and more. Press Play @ the library can be interpreted broadly to make it work for you in your own library. One way to interpret the theme is to emphasize the word "play." Play can be about teens creating and sharing their own content for the fun of it, like videos, music, and digital artwork. Play through games can be encouraged with tournaments, tech trivia contests, and video games. The theme can also take a more educational direction. Teens can "press play" on various digital devices to learn more about the world around them. They can press play to watch film documentaries, listen to an audiobook, get online homework help, learn a new language and more. YALSA encourages librarians and educators to be creative and take the theme in a direction that works for them and their teens!

For more information, visit the Teen Tech Week page on YALSA's web site. And remember that OWLS has lots of tech tools for you to borrow to use with your teens! Check out 'Casting @ OWLS for more info. Plenty of help using the 'casting kit is available if you need it, so please don't hesitate to ask.

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The Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) recently released a new bibliography highlighting books for children and teens about the environment. It's called Eco-Reading, and you'll find books on the list in the following categories:

• In My World: Loving the Earth - Fiction
  
• In My World: Loving the Earth - Nonfiction
• What Happened Here? Environmental Challenges and Change - Fiction
• What Happened Here? Environmental Challenges and Change - Nonfiction
• Taking Action: Planet Pioneers - Fiction
• Taking Action: Planet Pioneers - Nonfiction

Each title includes an appropriate reader age next to it with a link to more information about each book. While you're at their site, be sure to subscribe to their weekly podcasts!

Thanks, CCBC!

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The 7th annual International Children’s and Young Adult Literature Celebration, “Open a Door… Open a Book… Open your Mind… to the World,” is scheduled for Saturday, November 22, 2008, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Memorial Union’s Tripp Commons from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.   The celebration is an annual interactive workshop for educators, librarians, students, and children’s literature enthusiasts, with an aim to internationalize statewide reading curriculum.  This year’s event features authors Meshack Asare, Bodil Bredsorff, Margarita Engle, and Cynthia Kadohata.  Each author will discuss the stories that they have written and highlight the work they feel is most suitable for classroom discussion. Two authors will speak in the morning and two following lunch. A reception and book signing will be held at the end of the day.
 
This event is sponsored by the Wisconsin International Outreach Consortium (WIOC) in observance of International Education Week 2008. International Education Week is a joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education to promote programs that prepare Americans for a global environment and attract future leaders from abroad to study, learn, and exchange experiences in the United States. For more information and to register, please go to http://www.wioc.wisc.edu/childlit/.  Please register and pay by Monday, November 17, 2008. Registration payments will not be accepted at the event.  For more information contact Rachel Weiss at (608) 262-9224, or by e-mail at rweiss@wisc.edu.

> from Channel Weekly, Vol. 11, No. 9, November 13, 2008, posted with permission

As Teen Read Week 2008 approaches, the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) offers several tools aimed at helping librarians, booksellers, educators, and others promote events in their libraries, stores, schools, and communities. Teen Read Week will be celebrated Oct. 12–18 by nearly 5,000 libraries across the United States, with a theme of Books with Bite @ your library®.
 
YALSA offers several publicity tools on the Teen Read Week Web site, including sample press releases, proclamations and letters to the editor to encourage support for Teen Read Week. YALSA also offers scripts for public service announcements (PSAs) in both Spanish and English, which can be read during school announcements or given to the community radio station to be read on air. In addition, Nancy Cartwright, who plays Bart on “The Simpsons,” recorded three PSAs, which can be downloaded. All of these excellent tools, plus a podcast on tips to use them, are available by visiting http://www.ala.org/teenread and clicking “Get Publicity.”
 
Teen Read Week is a national literacy initiative aimed at teens, their parents, librarians, educators, booksellers and other concerned adults. The purpose of the event is to increase the number of teens who are regular readers and library users. It began in 1998 and is celebrated the third week in October. For more information or to register, visit the Teen Read Week Web site at http://www.ala.org/teenread.

> from Channel Weekly, Vol. 11, No. 4, October 4, 2008 - posted with permission

There are a variety of events coming up this Fall that you can promote at your library. Here's a gathering of a few with links to ideas and additional info.

Library Card Sign-up Month
September
The InfoSoup PR Committee sent out some cool posters to all OWLSnet directors to be posted in your community by September 1st to help celebrate this event. Please be sure to get the posters up, and if you need more, order some from Bradd. Read more about the Poster Campaign on the InfoSoup Info page.

AskAway Week
September 8-12
Help promote the Wisconsin Virtual Reference service AskAway. A press release, article, scripts, MP3 files, logo, and more are available for your use on the AskAway PR Wiki. 

Banned Books Week
September 27-October 4
Celebrate the freedom to read! Learn more about Banned Books Week, how to celebrate it at your library, and order promotional items on the ALA website. I also came across some great quotes to use via the PR-Talk discussion list. Here are a few:

• "Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance." Lyndon Baines Johnson
• "We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." John Kennedy
• "The ultimate expression of free speech lies not in the ideas with which we agree, but in those ideas that offend and irritate us." Chuck Stone
• "Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed." Dwight D. Eisenhower
  

Teen Read Week
October 12-18
This year's theme is Books with Bite@ Your Library! Read more about this event and how to promote it at your library on the YALSA website.

Will you be celebrating any of these events or others in your library this Fall? Let us know what you have in the works!

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The teen booklist factory at the Appleton Public Library has published two new lists - Leap of Faith: Believers and Doubters and Twilight Read-Alikes.  Also updated and expanded is A Perfect World: Utopia & Dystopia Teen Fiction.  Check out the Teen Reads page for all the lists.

Not to be outdone, the APL children's staff has also published new lists including more bug related fun in Insects & Creepy Crawlers (fiction) and Insects & Creepy Crawlers (nonfiction). Other new lists include Community and Community Helpers and Summer Books & Media. Visit the Family page for more booklists, award winners, and BookLetters features.

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The Wisconsin Statewide AskAway publicity committee is sponsoring a YouTube contest for teens.  This is a great opportunity for library youth groups to try something new, get some publicity, and prizes.  The committee is looking for original videos between 30 and 60 seconds long (can be longer) that depict the AskAway service in a positive way; why they use and like it.  A $150 first prize and a $75 second prize will be offered.   Additional details about contest rules and contest forms will be announced soon.

Everyone's help is needed to make this a successful contest.  Please talk to your young adult and/or children's librarians at your library.  If you are the youth services/young adult/children's librarians please consider having your young adult group enter.

The committee is looking for Young Adult librarians to be judges!  No experience necessary.  If you want to be a judge in the contest please contact Renee Ponzio at reneep@eauclaire.lib.wi.us.

Please visit the Wiki site at http://askaway.pbwiki.com/FrontPage where you will find tons of information, posters, and other materials to help your library promote AskAway to your patrons.  For more information about the contest, contact Renee Ponzio, Chairperson, Statewide AskAway Publicity Committee, at (715) 839-1683 or reneep@eauclaire.lib.wi.us.

From Channel Weekly, Vol. 10, No. 27, April 10, 2008

Teen Tech Week is coming up on March 2-8 this year. There is still time to order posters, pens, bookmarks, etc. to help raise teens' awareness of your cutting-edge resources. The deadline to order is Monday, February 8th, and you can order online. Keep in mind that Bradd, OWLS' new graphic arts specialist, is available to design materials for Teen Tech Week, too. Give him a call!

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