Round Table Summary

Hi. It was a great program that Jeana and YART put together. Thanks to all for your focused energy and great ideas. It was a priviledge for me to be part of your group.

The Round Tables were wonderful. Many contributions were made, and i wanted to summarize a few implementation suggestions for building an online community of teen readers. In no order:

1: Take the Tayshas and Lone Star lists (or any book list you have), and over the summer or an extended period of time, ask students to create a book talk podcast. Very easy to do with inexpensive audio recorders. Then collect them, and not only put them on a website, but also burn these book talks onto a CD-ROM. Then give your directors and administrators a copy of this disk to hear -- for listening to articulate book talks from students affirms in powerful ways the great work y'all are doing.

2: Build wiki's on the authors of Lone Star / Tayshas and others. Wiki's aren't usually blocked by filters, so this is an opportunity in this filtered age.....

3: Collect "favorites" of teen websites, and save that folder on your website. Encourage students and colleagues to copy your folder (onto a jump drive, for example), and then they can have these vetted websites with them at home or in the public library.

4: School library / public library partnerships can support community teen programming -- with the public library hosting the website, and the schools linking to it. This will avoid duplication of efforts and time within the district, and gives a central spot for all the links to be housed on the public library environment, where filters aren't as much of an issue.

Thank you for your participation and effort today. Night in San Antonio! Nick

First Posting

Hi. This blog is for anyone interested in sharing online spaces and experiences that provide teens multimedia ways to experience books. It begins as part of a Texas Library Association preconference program, and welcomes any and all.

Links that to start this discussion are below. I've organized them by Author Pronunciations; MySpace; Author Blogs; Wiki; Teen Literature Resources; Model Library Resources; Book Trailer Websites.

Enjoy! Nick Glass, nick@TeachingBooks.net


Authors Pronouncing Their Names:
http://teachingbooks.net/pronunciations.cgi

MySpace Teen Lit Point of Entrée:
http://groups.myspace.com/teenlit

YA Author Blog Compilation: (I'd love one list of all the teen authors who blog -- there are many, but I haven't seen that yet. This list has many, though).

http://erindowney.livejournal.com/1742.html

Wikipedia for patrons to create and/or contribute to author bios:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_young_adult_authors


Examples to stimulate ideas for your online spaces:
A public library space for teens to share and discuss their own writings:
http://www.lclshome.org/abington/maltshoppe.php (also have a special Facebook account for their patrons).

Libraries providing equipment and space to create and publish podcasts and videos:
http://teenlink.nypl.org/turnitup.html

Students filming their own book trailers:
http://mciu.org/~spjvweb/movietrailers.html


-- here are some of my favorite YA Literature sites in alphabetical order (courtesy of TeachingBooks.net):

Brotherhood 2.0 with John and Hank Green
http://www.brotherhood2.com/

Inside a Dog
http://www.insideadog.com.au/index.html

Reader Girlz
http://www.readergirlz.com/

Reading Rants: Out of the Ordinary Teen Booklists (The Library Network)
http://members.tln.lib.mi.us/~amutch/jen/index.html

Teen Ink
http://teenink.com/

Teen Space @ The Internet Public Library: Books and Writing Page
http://www.ipl.org/div/teen/browse/bw0000/

Teenage Angstbooks
http://www.grouchy.com/angst/index.html

TeenLink (New York Public Library)
http://teenlink.nypl.org/

TeenRead.com
http://www.teenreads.com/

Teens Read Too
http://www.teensreadtoo.com/

TeensPoint
http://www.teenspoint.org/

VPL Teens (Vancouver Public Library)
http://www.vpl.vancouver.bc.ca/branches/LibrarySquare/teens/home.html

YA Authors Café
http://www.yaauthorscafe.blogspot.com/

Young Adult (& Kids) Books Central
http://www.yabookscentral.com/