2008 Teen Summer Reading Program

Read It! Watch It! Win It!

Wow! This summer we had a wonderful time meeting at the library! The Lee County Public Library System had great programs for teens. At the Fort Myers Library we got to see a movie, make a movie, learn about bead making (how glass bead are made!) & we enjoyed magic, not to mention have a super duper way cool party.

The Friends of the library really made this year count! The Palm Readers donated money for food and drinks. The pizza came from a local business and they love helping our teens in the community.

Ms. Kathleen got 50 tickets from Gatorland Bowling, and 50 tickets from the City of Fort Myers Skatium! Now that is really "Cool" and it has to be to keep the ice ready!

The staff at the library really helped us out with the baskets... so many donations from so many different people. Because everyone here wants to give back to the teens.

We really had a lot of really teen volunteers too! These teens helped with all the programs and made the overall summer successful!

The teens could use their teen bucks they earned for prizes!

This year we had M3Player, used cell phone, Hello Kitty memory stick, two different anime baskets, beach basket, two back-to-school backets, two girly girl baskets, cd's, free books, free food, free drinks, and a whole lot more! All the teens had to do is read, come to programs, and fill out review forms. We hope that next year will be even better!

If you had fun and came to this program. Post a blog.

Thanks,
Ms. Kathleen

PS we hope to have our Movie Maker Program posted online soon! Thank you teens for all your hard work making this summer reading program so successful!

Week 10 - Podcasts, videos and downloads

1. What were your favorite discoveries or exercises on this learning journey?
To me, my favorite area of learning has been blogging. I like this concept and I can see how I can learn blogging as a learning tool.
2. How has this program assisted or affected your lifelong learning goals? I am more willing to take chances with the Internet. I am now going to continue working on my lifelong goals. I want to continue this experience and work on my skills and knowledge so that I can help others at the library. I want to be able to keep up with technology and be able to share these experiences with others at work.
3. Were there any take-aways or unexpected outcomes from this program that surprised you? I think the concept of play to learn was very difficult to me. I didn't like working this into my "Work" schedule. This last post is done from home. I have done most of my blogging from "Work". The idea of play to learn is starting to sink in but I can see how others could take advantage of this concept. It was very difficult to work this into my schedule. But I am surprised that it's over for now. I really did enjoy this experience.
4. What could we do differently to improve upon this program’s format or concept? I enjoyed this program and I was able to complete this lesson. Keep the format as it is but some lessons could have been shorter. Some lessons were easier than others. I was able to do everything except lesson 9.
5. If we offered another discovery program like this in the future, would you chose to participate? Absolutely, I hope that we will continue to keep up with the concept of the library 2.0 or 3.0 or 4.0 library.

Youtube! I have to say that this Podcast website is exciting and totally cool. I refused to go to Youtube and seeing videos from the past was really crazy. I looked up Ozzie and other searches and had a wonderful time. I looked at political satire and laughed my head off. I decided not to upload a video on Youtube. I can see how people are sucked into surfing this site. That's probably why I don't go there. (Because I would waste a lot of time doing so) But I know that this can be a great learning site. I can see how we use this as a learning tool to help others, teach skills for example (beading lesson which I saw on Youtube) and how to repair books, etc.

Week 9 - Web Applications

http://export.writer.zoho.com/ZExport.do

Here is the link that I created for this website. I tried and I had Erica help for a few minutes. She wasn't able to show me how to get to the correct area to upload this. I was in great hopes to be able to use ZOHO.com to get what I wrote. I tried to export what I did. As you can see, I wasn't able to do it. That link doesn't say what I wrote. I did leave the link that I created here listed above. If I did it right, I'm unaware! But I think that I am not correct on this lesson. I heard that Zoho, is a no-go! Direct quote from Amy. Oh well.

Week 8 - Wiki

Uses of Wiki:
Conference planning
Collaborative editing of documents
Meetings (posting agendas, discussion prior to meeting, etc.)
Project space
In place of structured courseware
Presentation medium
Web-based notebook to organize your thoughts

Wow! This weeks lesson is very COOL! I went to the website and I entered my information and added to Sheldon's Playhouse. I liked the idea how it notifies you that you made changes to that link. I can see how you can work on projects together and work as a team getting updates all the time. This will be a useful tool. I hope to use this in the near future.

Week 7 Tagging and Del.icio.us

Tagging and Del.icio.us:

I browsed Del.icio.us is a nice way of connecting browsers together. I liked looking at the links from several different people. I decided not to join this site, but I did decide to look and determine later if I wanted to maybe add this to my favorites.

The video of ottergroup was interesting. I understand how you can gather information from others online by looking at their tags. But their is a lot of information that you have to go through to filter and see what you want to tag and add maybe to your favorite blogs, links and websites.

Technorati:

I looked at several different links from this site. I was interested in some of the political view points and even added my opinion on several. I found this site very interesting and maybe a place I will visit again in the future. I could see how we could connect with other librarians, youth librarian and share ideas together or work on a project together. There is a lot of potential to this area of communication.

Away from Iceburgs: Librarys in the future: 2.0 Having a digital collection more vs. a physical collection. The movement of libraries is to have more articles, journals, and books via the internet, webpages and links through our website. The future of libraries are constantly changing and I can see how the libraries of the future will be so much more different than what I use to think. I am excited about the changes and I know that I have to continue to keep an open mind when it comes to collection development. I know that young children's books will never go out of style and that parents will continue to read to their kids. They want to hold and touch the book and feel it's pages.

I understand how adults will slowly move to this change and as the new generation comes along with the new library of the future, one will see that MP's, Scan disks, external drives will be common place at the library. Downloading to IPODS and other forms of technology will continue to enter in the library. Staff will have to adapt to change and we will have to continue to move towards the future of a modern library system 2.0.

Into the new world of librarianship:
To more powerful ways to coorerate:
To better bibiographic services:
To a temporary place in time:But Library 4.0 will add a new mode, knowledge spa: meditation, relaxation, immersion in a luxury of ideas and thought. In companies, this may take the form of retreat space for thought leaders, considered an investment in innovation; in public libraries, the luxurious details will require private partners as sponsors providing the sensory treats. Library 4.0 revives the old image of a country house library, and renovates it: from a retreat, a sanctuary, a pampered experience with information—subtle thoughts, fine words, exquisite brandy, smooth coffee, aromatic cigar, smell of leather, rustle of pages—to the dream economy’s library, the LIBRARY: a WiFREE space, a retreat from technohustle, with comfortable chairs, quiet, good light, coffee and single malt. You know, the library.
Wow, what a wonderful thought of the library of tomorrow! The library of the future 4.0!

Week 6 Social Networks

My Space:

Ok, I found Tom and he is a Libra. I know how important this social network has become. I am not a part of My Space. I see young adults, teens, and pre-teens on this site all the time. I have to admit that it's about time to become more socially available. I laugh now because I am so young, but I am now getting older and I have to keep up with the kids. I didn't realize how fast the internet has changed in this past year. I am learning more and I see that I have to get back into surfing the internet.

Gaming:

Again, I haven't been gaming online. I do Playstation at home and I have played some games that I have purchased. I downloaded a few games through the years. I ask kids what sites do you like. There are so many sites now that are free to game online.

Billards:

My score was 8! As you can tell, I don't game online very much!

Week 5

Image Generator:

I tried out the first one (Generator Blog) and went to several different choices. I tried the George Bush one and went to send it to my blog. As you can tell, It didn't get here. Then I tried the second one (Letter James). As you can tell, I was able to upload this image that I created.

Next month! I'm getting married! Too Cool! How exciting is that!

Library Thing: This seems pretty interesting to me. I may use this to save books that I would like to read, add to the library or make a list of the books that I have already read. I did the small learning program on the site and it appears that this might be useful.

Rollyo: Oh my, not another thing to sign up for. I am not interested in this one at all. But I have to say that Library Thing is the best one when it comes to books. I am ready to learn more.