Teen Tech Week March 7-13 2010

This is the first year I decided to do anything for Teen Tech Week, in the past it has always been on my mind but I never actually developed or carried out any programs for it. So I was excited in my new job I had time to carry out a mini celebration. 

First I created a Teen Tech Week booklist and pathfinder which includes websites that support the teen tech week theme of Learn, Create, and Share. I had a hard time coming up with ideas for some websites. I knew I had packed away notes of techy websites from all the workshops I have been to, but couldn't find them! But I found this really great article in Young Adult Library Services journal Winter 2010 called "Free Online Tools for Serving Teens Four Verbs to Live By and Great Technologies to Try" by Mary Fran Daley. The article had some really great ideas for websites to help teens learn, create, and share technology. I was so thankful Mary wrote such a helpful article. Here is the link to the Teen Tech Page on our website and you can click on the link to get to the book list and pathfinder.


We also decided to have a contest for teens; they submit their favorite website or tech book and write a review of either to be entered to win an I-Tunes gift card. We are using Evanced for the contest and the teens submit their entries and share their reviews through our website. The reason I wanted to do this particular program is because it is easy! But alsol promotes the theme of Teen Tech Week by letting teens share and learn new tech websites and books with each other.

Enjoy!