Web 2.0 & Libraries
Revision as of 13:12, 28 March 2012 by Bstef87
- www.digitalliteracy.gov/ (a web portal to access and share materials related to helping people of all ages gain digital literacy skills)
- Examples of libraries using social networking technologies to connect with teens (view a list of links to libraries' MySpace pages, blogs, wikis, etc. and add a link to your own)
- You Are Here feedback: Use this space to share your feedback about the FTC's You Are Here web site and resources regarding consumer literacy for young people.
- 2.0 Resources for Teen Tech Week (some of these focus specifically on the TTW celebration, but many can be used year-round) Multimedia Programs, Tech Tools for Librarians, Internet Safety and Social Networking Research, Tech Resources, Professional Librarian blogs
- Social Networking: A Guide for Teens a (free downloadable pamphlet from YALSA for photocopying and distribution to teens)
- Teens and Social Networking in School and Public Libraries Toolkit (free downloadable toolkit from YALSA. Designed to help librarians and library workers become more knowledgeable about online social networking tools, to give them ideas on how they can be used to provide library services, and to suggest ways that librarians and library workers can educate their community members about the positive uses of online social networking tools as well as provide them with Internet safety tips.)
- spigot.org (a clearinghouse for news, research, etc. about youth, learning and technology)
- 30 Positive Uses of Social Networking, (from YALSA. A compilation of 30 days of posts to the YALSA blog about how social networking can be a positive force in teen lives. October 2006)
- Teen Tech Guides Tech Guides created by the 2008 Teen Tech Week committee on topics such as online Virtual Worlds and podcasting. This is the place to start learning about technologies important in the lives of the teens you work with!
- Technology category on the YALSA Blog many of the posts in this blog category discuss using web 2.0 in libraries and with and for teens.