DLIS Celebrates Teen Tech Week
11 March 2007On Wed, March 7th, the CPS Department of Libraries hosted our first major event, following our Open House. This event, a panel discussion, was organized in celebration of YALSA’s new program - Teen Tech Week. (See http://teentechweek.wikispaces.com) Kittygloom Cassady, of ISTE, served as the co-moderator for the discussion, fielding IM questions for panelists and leading the Q&A session.
About 40 avatars attended this event to learn about how four panelists are using technology effectively with teens. For those who missed it, companion audio/ppt presentations are found at http://www.opal-online.org/archiveTTW200703.htm. (Thanks to Tom Peters and the Alliance Library System for assisting us with this.)
Here is the agenda that was distributed via a notecard giver at the program:
YALSA’s Teen Tech Week in Second Life: A Panel Discussion
Wednesday, March 7 at 6:00 pm SL time
Cybrary City Open Air Arena
Organized by Chicago Public Schools Department of Libraries & Information Service
Moderator: Lisa Perez, Area Library Coordinator (AV=ElaineTulip)
Co-Moderator: Jennifer Ragan-Fore (AV=Kittygloom Cassady)
* IM Kittygloom with questions during presentation
Panelists:
Christie Thomas, University of Chicago eCUIP Program (AV=Corinne Fleury)
http://ecuip.lib.uchicago.edu
Angela Semifero, Marshall District Library (AV=Semife Roar)
http://marshalldistrictlibrary.org
Kelly Czarnecki, Teen Librarian at ImaginOn, the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg Co NC (AV=BlueWings Hayek)
http://www.plcmc.org
Joe Kallo, Technology Director for Dept of Curriculum & Instruction at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (AV=Trevor Duncan)
http://ci.siu.edu
Agenda (in SL time)
6:00 Welcome and overview of Teen Tech Week
6:05 Corinne Fleury - How eCUIP Supports Teens’ Use of Technology
6:15 Semife Roar - Gaming for Teens in the Library
6:25 BlueWings Hayek - Overview of Eye4You Alliance Island on the Teen Grid
6:35 Trevor Duncan - Teens as Digital Videographers (video available at http://ci.siu.edu/media/greatexp.mov)
6:45 Moderated questions to panelists
(IM Kittygloom Cassady during presentations to ask your questions. Include name of person to whom question is directed.)
About Teen Tech Week:
Teen Tech Week (TTW) is an initiative of the Young Adult Library Services Association division of the American Library Association.
See http://www.ala.org/teentechweek for full information.
Thanks to Maxito Ricardo (Tom Peters) for assising us in placing a companion presentation at OPAL.
See http://67.19.231.218/v4/login.asp?r=25e7417f&p=0
Thanks to Yohan Althouse, official photographer/videographer
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Thanks to ISTE for designing a Teen Tech Week virtual t-shirt, which as also given out with the notecard!
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See Flikr photos at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/yohan2006/
See machinima video at: http://grouper.com/video/MediaList.aspx?o=0&fi=&fu=2099778
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About using the technology:
For me, this was a good experience in multi-tasking within Second Life. We used a SpeakEasy HUD to have portions of our speech prepared on notecard and easily released into chat during our presentations. I also had a whiteboard HUD running with presenters’ ppts preloaded as textures. We used a group IM for presenters to communicate behind the scenes about pacing and other issues. And, I monitored chat from the audience and other IMs. It was cool to know that it could all come together to make a successful program. Tips I could share are to plan well in advance, communicate regularly with panelists prior to the event (we met in-world once as group prior to the program and communicated via email during planning phase), practice in advance, arrive early, be flexible, and be sure to keep a little humor going throughout the program. Having an outstanding and dedicated group of panelists really helps, too 
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