Save the State Library of Massachusetts – sign the petition

The State library’s innovative teens and tweens grant, support for summer reading, and deilvery network has immense direct impact on MA residents and taxholders that contributes to developing a literate, informed, and participatory citizenship.

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Games People Play

Thanks to SEMLS for hosting my video game collection development workshop in Lakeville in October. Slides and links follow!

 

Slides:

Links:

http://delicious.com/informationgoddess29/semls

 

Handouts:

Gaming and Literacy

Game On! coupon

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Sneak Preview of Discovering Game: Game Design for Librarians Available Now!

The October session of Discovering Game: Game Design for Librarians via Simmons College GSLIS Continuing Education has been CANCELED due to low enrollment. We’ll try to offer it again in March 2010 as a four-week course, which brings the price down a little; registration information will be available on the Simmons CE Workshops page.

To encourage people to sign up, and preview the course, we are offering the first week of Discovering Game for FREE! Participate by reading the article, playing the assigned game, trying the game design assignment, and sharing your thoughts on the Google discussion group, Discovering Game.

Week 1 Content is posted online at http://discoveringgame.com/?p=133, thanks for playing along!

Add comment October 25, 2009

MSLA: Creating and Maintaining Your Online Identity

Thanks to the Massachusetts School Library Association for inviting me to present, not once, but twice! I was thrilled to be a featured speaker this year.

Monday’s presentation focused on Creating and Maintaining Your Online Identity. Slides and links follow:

Slides:

Links:

http://www.delicious.com/informationgoddess29/identity

Handout: Creating an Avatar

EDIT, 10/8/09: Thanks to Lucy Clerkin, for asking about cleaning up one’s identity, and offering a workshop for students on how to delete their social networking profiles.I added the following links to the “identity” tag in my delicious bookmarks:

Point students here, first: how to lock down their Facebook profiles:
10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know
http://www.allfacebook.com/2009/02/facebook-privacy/

Deleting your Facebook Account:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=16929680703

Deleting Your MySpace Profile:
http://faq.myspace.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/285

How to Delete Your LinkedIn Profile:
http://www.linkedin.com/answers/financial-markets/bond-markets/MKT_BON/19210-9089248?browseCategory=MKT_BON

How to Close Your Yahoo! Account
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/edit/changing_users/edit-23.html

Excluding Your Site from the Wayback Machine:
http://www.archive.org/about/faqs.php

Google Phonebook Removal
http://www.google.com/help/pbremoval.html

Delete Your Flickr Account:
http://www.flickr.com/profile_delete.gne

Flickr Privacy & Permissions
http://www.flickr.com/account/?tab=privacy

Add comment October 5, 2009

MSLA: Board Games and 21st Century Literacies

Thanks to the Massachusetts School Library Association for inviting me to present, not once, but twice! I was thrilled to be a featured speaker this year.

Sunday’s presentation was on Board Games and 21st Century Literacies; slides and links follow.

Slides:

Links:

Board Games played in session – http://www.delicious.com/informationgoddess29/boardgamesmsla

Resources shared in session – http://www.delicious.com/informationgoddess29/msla09

Further Resources:

Someone asked about MATH games:

Money, Money, Money – paying for gaming resources (grant info!)

Participants may also be interested in my presentation for FAME on video games and 21 century literacies.

Finally, here is a  coupon for Game On! Gaming at the Library

gameonbook

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FAME: Gaming at the School Library

Thanks to the Florida Association of Media in Education for inviting me to present not one but TWO sessions at their annual conference! Thursday’s talk focused on all types of gaming in school libraries.

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FAME: Help! My School Library is Turning into an Arcade!

FAME conference

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Game Design at Wilmington

Thanks to everyone who participated in Part I of the Game Design Session in Wilmington MA!

Game Design Slides:

Handouts:

Games:

Please take a moment to complete the Evaluation!

Add comment September 25, 2009

National Gaming Day Registration Now Open

ALA’s National Gaming Day Event is Saturday November 14 this year! The first 1,000 libraries to register and request donations will receive three games from two companies.Register now at http://bit.ly/ngd2009.

For more information, visit the NGD blog at http://ngd.ala.org

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Add comment September 25, 2009

Who YA/Why YA/How YA

Library of VA Fall Conference

Thanks to the Library of Virginia for hosting me for a tour of the state to do a workshop on Who YA/Why YA/How YA in September!

If you didn’t have a chance to attend, you can listen to the audio from the first half of the session on Friday September 11. Got questions? Sign up to participate in online discussion at:

http://groups.google.com/group/whoyawhyyahowya

Slides:

Links: http://www.delicious.com/informationgoddess29/va

Handouts:

Agenda & Who/Why/How

Technology with Teens

TAB Tasks

Search Institute’s Developmental Assets

Add comment September 11, 2009

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