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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Who YA/Why YA/How YA

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

Pain in the Brain: Watertown Public Library

Thanks to the Watertown Public Library for hosting me for a staff inservice on Teen Behavior! Slides, links, etc. follow.

ICEBREAKER: Things we enjoy about teens

• * irreverant sense of humor
• * funny
• getting to know them
• enthusiasm
• potential
• interesting
• watching them grow up
• ideas
• keeps me younger
• perspective
• conversations

SLIDES:

HANDOUTS:

LINKS: http://www.delicious.com/informationgoddess29/brain

• Myth of the Teen Brain
• Middle Childhood
• Early Adolescence
• Middle Adolescence
• Search Institute
• Teens & Sleep

EXERCISE: Behavoir Situation

Several teens discussing a party; older patron complains

Defend teens if in teen room

treat like adults on a cell phone

ask to consider audience (friend of parents, police)

Teen asked to leave at 4 due to disturbance, returns at 7.

I think you’re not supposed to be here

we’d love to have you back… just not today!

Computer time limit violation after warning

Personal touch – what are you working on

State consequences at interactions

Virtual Worlds: Web 3.0?

Thanks to Cuyahoga County Library System for hosting me for two days in Parma, OH for a session on Web 3.0!

If you attended this session, please take a moment to complete the EVALUATION.

Slides:

Links:

• http://www.delicious.com/informationgoddess29/virtualworlds

Handout:

• Guide to Virtual Worlds

If you are interested in further exploring virtual worlds, please consider registering for Introduction to Virtual Worlds, a Simmons GSLIS Continuing Education Workshop, to be offered in March 2010 with co-instructor, Kelly Czarnecki.

Podcast Boot Camp

I will be facilitating a Podcasting Boot Camp as an online continuing education workshop for Simmons College GSLIS from October 24-November 30.

Technology Programming for Teens: A Simmons GSLIS CE Workshop

I will be facilitating Technology Programming for Teens as an online continuing education workshop for Simmons College GSLIS from November 1-30, 2009.

Course Description: Jump onto the Web 2.0 bandwagon by offering interactive, multimedia content creation programs for teens at the library. Discover model programs in technology for teens while experimenting with new technologies and evaluating for usability. Discuss the benefits and barriers to delivering tech programs for teens, and learn how to justify and then replicate these inexpensive and easy tech programs for teens in your library.  By the end of this session, participants will:  Make an avatar;  discover how to use Wordle;  test a video game designed by teens, and create one of their own; chat with an author via instant messaging;  and participate in a book review podcast. The final assignment is to develop a teen technology program to implement at your library.

Register online

Sample Syllabus (Coming Soon!)

CMRLS workshop on Gaming Collection Development

Thanks to CMRLS for hosting my Collection Development Workshop last week!
Slides

Links:
Annotated Core Collection titles

Entertainment Software Ratings Board

Prima Strategy Guides

Sample Collection Development Policy

Core Collection Handout

Discovering Game: Game Design for Librarians, a Simmons GSLIS online CE class

I will be co-teaching a online continuing education workshop for Simmons College GSLIS from October 1-November 15, 2009, with Chris Castaldi: Discovering Game: Game Design for Librarians.

Course Description: Learn to engage youth at the library with interactive, multimedia, content creation workshops: video game design! Not all librarians embrace the same “learn by failing” method that gamers employ; this six-week course will introduce you to the fundamentals of game design and provide guided access to free tools (such as Ben 10 Game Creator, Scratch, Cube, Gimp) that you can use at your library for game design workshops. Content will be delivered through audio lecture, slideshows and video capture, as well as hands on-game play, exercises, and assignments using game design software.

Register online

Sample Syllabus (Coming Soon!)

RILA Conference

Thanks to the Rhode Island Library Association for inviting me to present at RILA at Bryant College.  Slides and handouts for all modules  follow.

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

Gaming and Literacy

Slides:

Handout: Gaming and Literacy Fact Sheet

Board Gaming

Slides:

Handouts:

• Board Games for Libraries
• Board Gaming and the AASL Standards for 12st Century Learners

Model Programs

Slides:

Handout:

• Model Programs
• 40 Developmental Assets for Adolescents

Game Design Model, by Chris Castaldi

Slides:

Handout:

• Gaming Bibliography

Collection Development

Slides:

Handout:

• Core Collections

ESRB

Slides:

Handout:

• OK to Play? Helpful Tips for Parents

Reader’s Advisory
Slides:

Handout:

• Reader’s Advisory

NHLA: Library Behavior session

Thanks to the New Hampshire Library Association for hosting my session on Teen Library (Mis) Behavior! It was a great interactive session; slides & handouts follow:

Slides:

Handouts:

Tips Handout (side 1)

Brain Handout (side 2)

Links:

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