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Workshop :: Youth Programming PR the Digital Way

Wednesday Sept 21, 2011 - Ramapo Catskill Library System, Middletown NY (event page)

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Digital Storytelling Resources (on separate workshop page)

• Examples
• Finding Media
• Digital Storytelling Tools 

Examples of teen oriented social networks, blogs, etc.

• Teens Read - Alameda County PL - Free blog through WordPress.com blog. 
• Pikes Peak Library Teens - Facebook page - active page, allows comments from community. 
• Charlotte-Mecklenburg Public Library - IM a librarian built in. 
• Eager Readers  - McCracken County PL teen blog. twitter feed, flickr photos,lots of embedded videos.
• Greenwich Teens - blog  with Twitter widget and Facebook badge.
• Logan Library - Teen blog with Flickr widget embedded. 
• Topeka Shawnee PL - Teen blog - nice widget with LibraryThing widget highlighting books. Latest tweet appears at bottom of page. 

The whole magilla from Denver Public

• Denver Public Teen Page
• MySpace - Twitter stream is fed into the account.
• Twitter
• Facebook
• Flickr Sets
• YouTube

Digital media tools, ideas and more

Video & Photos:

• Picture Past It Competition - Love this idea from Logan City (Australia) Libraries. Photos could also be posted to HistoryPin or WhatWasThere.
• Drop in Knitting - fun video to promote knitting sessions.  Easily done with MS MovieMaker or Mac iMovie some video clips and a bit of music.
• Back to School Movie Night - created by teen advisory group. 
• Kansas Library Conference teaser - video  for an upcoming conference session. Keynote and iMovie. Could also be done with PPT slides exported to MS MovieMaker or MS Photostory.
• What if Barbie had a Book Club - goofy, but fun video. :) 

Book Trailers

• Book Trailers for All - Tons of book trailers you can download or embed on your web sites. Or use QR codes in a book to lead reader to the book trailer.
• Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesic - Create your own book trailers with images, text and music with Animoto.  
• Twilight - Book trailer with VoiceThread
  
• Embedr - Pulls a YouTube play list into a nice display

• YouTube Playlist embed howto

Audio/Animation Fun

• You Can't Just Google It - Xtranormal cartoon created by the SweetSearch folks.
  
• Young Writers Interview - Toowoomba Library, Queensland. Uses AudioBoo, free and easy to record. Audio can be embedded. 

• Voki - Create a character, add your voice.  At of late 2010, Voki seems to be focusing it's free product on the education market, and without advertising! A good move. Example: Paige Jaeger's Voki   
  

Etc.

• 30 Days of How-To #17: How-To Use Infographics for Library Advocacy
• Wordle posted to a resource guide  -  But could be used for many things, posters, blog posts promoting events, etc.  (Wordle)
• To turn your wordle into a jpg, use a screenshot tool to capture the image. PrintScreen, Snipping Tool, Snagit, etc. 
• If you were on Twitter - Dear educator, if you were on Twitter yesterday, you might have found...