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
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