[LM_NET] ALA Midwinter Preconference Institute

[Angela Carstensen <carstnsna@YAHOO.COM>]

Don't Miss It! YALSA Brings You Teens and Technology

Join YALSA on Friday, January 20th in San Antonio,
Texas for the Teens and Technology Institute and Video
Gaming Night. 

The full-day Institute will take a look at how teen
literacies such as reading, writing, and communicating
are expanding and changing via technologies like chat,
IM, blogs, text messaging, podcasting, and wikis.  By
participating in the workshop you will have the chance
to explore:

    * How teen gamers are reading, writing, and
seeking out information with technology.
    * The link between graphic novel readers and
gamers and how technology brings them together.
    * Ethical issues related to teen use of  a variety
of technologies in the library and on their own.
    * How library workers can integrate a variety of
technologies into their programs and services in order
to serve teens successfully. 

You can follow-up on the Institute experience at
YALSA's video gaming night where you'll have a chance
to play, and learn about, a variety of video and role
playing games.  The video gaming night is sponsored in
part by Game Crazy.com and Diamond Comics/Alliance
Games.

For more information visit
http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/Teens&TechFlyer_MW06.pdf.
To register for both or either event visit
http://www.ala.org/ala/eventsandconferencesb/midwinter/2006/registration.htm.


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