What

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Whats new with Teens and Technology?

• Or, why it sucks a little less to be a teen right
  now.

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Innovative Schools
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• Napa, CA
• Lack of quality workforce inspired collaboration
• Opened in 1996, with 220 students grades 11-12th

http//www.newtechhigh.org/Website2007/index.ht
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New Tech Continued

• Project Based Learning
• Digital Portfolio
• District Requirements
• Digital Portfolio
• College Credit
• Senior year internship
• Student Project
• http//www.newtechhigh.org/Website2007/featured-pr
  ojects/vietnam/Vietnam_site_index.html

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High Tech High

• Brainchild of over 40 public and corporate
  sponsors
• Essential Spaces
• Ex Common Rooms (intellectual hub), Teaching
  Clusters/Shared Teacher Offices, Multi-purpose
  room, Studio Areas, Gallery Spaces, Specialty
  Labs, Outdoor Learning Spaces
• Personalized Learning Plan
• Each student has personal computer
• Same advisor for entire time at school
• Meetings 2-3 times a year with parents, teachers,
  workplace mentors, student

• www.hightechhigh.org
• Locations
• San Diego
• Chula Vista
• North County

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Innovative Libraries
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Minneapolis Public LibraryGame Design Workshops

• Partnership with the Science Museum of Minnesota
  and MIT
• Teens instructed in Scratch, free software from
  MIT http//scratch.mit.edu/
• Early Teens formed Teen Tech Squad, which then
  took over workshops
• Scratch is available to all public libraries for
  free

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Memphis Public LibraryTeen Tech Camp

• http//www.memphislibrary.org/humanities/TEENPAGE.
  htm
• Partnership with SIM (Society for Information
  Management)
• Held 2nd week in July, week long camp
• exposes teens to new technologies, BSOs
• 2007 the silly 13 , the serious 6

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Imaginonhttp//www.imaginon.org/index.asp

• Partnership between Childrens Theater of
  Charlotte and Public Library of Charlotte
  Mecklenburg County
• Time Warner Cable Tech Central
• 30 PCs
• 4 Macs
• Computer Classroom
• Multimedia Production Studio (Studio i)

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Studio i

• blue screen technology
• stop-motion animation
• paper cut-out animation
• claymation
• shadow puppet animation
• digital music production

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Social Networking

• Myspace vs. YouTube
• http//www.libsuccess.org/index.php?titleMySpace_
  26_Teens
• http//www.myspace.com/quaranteen
• Does it have to be teen focused?
• What if its all about changing perception?

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YouTube For The Masses

• St. Joseph County Library
• Ray of Light video
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vvrtYdFV_Eak
• http//sjcpl.lib.in.us/
• Allen County Public Library
• Zombie
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vHUxp3E3YUdQ
• Profile
• http//www.youtube.com/user/askacpl
• Apple
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vVWY8OBMlroI
• http//www.acpl.lib.in.us/
• Arlington Heights Memorial Library
• http//www.ahml.info/

• Where does this leave library websites?

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Denver Public Library

• Red state reaching the masses
• Myspace page
• http//www.myspace.com/denver_evolver
• YouTube Contest
• http//teens.denverlibrary.org/media/youtube.html
  entries

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Whats Next?

• Teen Second Life
• http//teen.secondlife.com/

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For your consideration

• Niche versions of Myspace
• http//www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file/c/
  a/2007/03/08/MNGCROHIP11.DTL
• Hot 2008 websites
• http//www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/dec/24/f
  acebook.socialnetworking?gusrcrssfeedmedia
• Predictions
• http//www.socialmediamethod.com/blog/2007/12/22/s
  ocial-networking-trends-for-2008-pringo-takes-a-lo
  ok/

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Articles

• High Schools
• Borja, Rhea R. High Tech Haven. Education
  Week. 5/29/2002, vol.21, p.26
• Pearlman, Bob. Reinventing the High School
  Experience. Educational Leadership. April
  2002, p.72
• Game Design
• Davis, C., Kelsey, R., Mulligan, C., From
  Playing to Creating. School Library Journal.
  October 2007, p.36
• Tech Camp
• Hoffman, Thomas. Tech For Teens.
  Computerworld. 12 November 2007., p.58
• ImaginOn
• Kenney, Brian. Imagine This. School Library
  Journal. December 2005., p.53
• Social Networking
• Social Video Videoblogging YouTube. Library
  Technology Reports. September-October 2007.,
  p.52
• Second Life
• Czarnecki, Kelly and Gullet, Matt., Meet the New
  You. School Library Journal. January 2007.,
  p.36