My comment on the petition to save the State Library, which you can sign at

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/saveyourstatelibrary/

As a paying member of the Haverhill MA Public Library, and rely heavily on services provided by MBLC – intranetwork transfer, database access, and an online summer reading program – to do my job, as well as entertain and educate me.

Ten years of my library career was in a library and then a region in Massachusetts – I’m now an independent consultant and MA libraries and regions are my primary clients for delivering continuing education and training. 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.

Please continue to fund the state library and the support they provide to school, academic, special and public libraries across the Commonwealth.

Very truly yours,

Elizabeth S. Gallaway, library consultant & trainer

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

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!

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

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:

• Numbers League Adventures in Addiplication (Bent Castle)
  basic math skills
• Fauna (Friedmann Friese)
  metrics and measurement
• Oregon (Rio Grande Games)
  Cartesian coordinate system

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

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. Slides and links follow:

Slides:

Links:

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

Thanks to the Florida Association of Media in Education for inviting me to present not one but TWO sessions at their annual conference!

Friday’s talk focused on digital game-based learning. Slides and links follow!

Slides:

Links:

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

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

Game Design Slides:

Handouts:

• Ben 10 Registration
• Ben 10 Game Creation
• Scratch

Games:

• Brian & Pawan’s Game
• Jake’s Game
• Jared’s Game

Please take a moment to complete the Evaluation!

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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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