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Empowering Teens in the Digital Age: Teen Tech Week Guide

Discover how to engage teens in digital literacy and tech skills development during Teen Tech Week, an annual event organized by YALSA. Get tips on planning, executing, and evaluating meaningful programs to support teens in school success and career readiness.

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Empowering Teens in the Digital Age: Teen Tech Week Guide

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  1. TEEN TECH WEEK™ Show your community how you help teens build digital skills to succeed in school and prep for careers

  2. Teen Tech Week • Created by YALSA in 2007 • Annual event the second week of March • Purpose: to provide a special time of year for libraries to showcase to the community they ways they help teens build the digital literacy skills they need for school success and careers

  3. Dates for 2016: March 6-12 • To keep the event fresh, there is a different theme each year • The 2016 theme is “Create it at your library!”

  4. Key Dates • November: TTW web site goes live, registration opens and products go on sale • December: free webinar to help libraries plan their activities • January: deadline to apply for grant • March: TTW is celebrated nationwide

  5. Planning Timeline: November • Register to participate at www.ala.org/teentechweek • Browse the TTW web site for ideas • Meet with your Teen Advisory Group (TAG) to decide how best to celebrate TTW. • Use the TTW planning form to plan your event • Based on your TAG meeting(s), write up a proposal and budget to share with your supervisor

  6. Planning Timeline: December • Participate in the free webinar (registration is required – sign up at TTW site) • Continue planning with your TAG. Think about what area organizations might be good to partner with. • Order supplies, invite presenters • Communicate your plans to the library staff and get any TTW events on the library calendar

  7. Planning Timeline: January • Read the winter issue of Young Adult Library Services for TTW ideas and resources • Confirm presenters or speakers for your TTW events • Send VIPs invitations to attend TTW events • Work with your TAG to identify ways to market TTW events then create marketing materials

  8. Planning Timeline: February • Market TTW events to area teens • Invite local press/media to TTW events • Find volunteers to be photographers or videographers for your TTW events • Work with your TAG to finalize plans • Update and prepare library staff for TTW • Work w/ TAG to create a TTW display in the library, school, community center, etc.

  9. Planning Timeline: March • Contact local press and media to confirm attendance at event(s) • Contact VIPs to remind them of the event(s) • Work with your TAG to implement event(s) • Evaluate your efforts • Send thank yous to volunteers, press, VIPs • Send press wrap up press release, photos, etc.

  10. Program Ideas

  11. Educational Tech Programs • Have a “Build a Blog” workshop and incorporate digital citizenship skills into the event • Recruit teens to teach a computers or Internet 101 workshop to senior citizens • Host a “Painless Research Papers” workshop and teach teens tips for efficient, effective researching

  12. Connecting Reading & Tech • Create a space where teens can share book reviews online • Set up a Twitter account, encourage teens to subscribe & use to alert them when new reading materials arrive or to send brief reading recommendations • Have teens create book trailers featuring their favorite books and post on YouTube. • Host an e-chat for teens w/ a favorite author

  13. Community Service & Tech • Have teens collect used tech items, such as cell phones, and donate them to an appropriate charity • Recruit teens to volunteer their tech expertise at a local charity or organization • Help teens create audio recordings of stories and distribute on CDs to parents of young children

  14. Celebrating the Lighter Side of Tech • Host a film or anime festival and show age appropriate movies with a tech focus • Put on a gaming tournament • Have a tech crafting event (e.g. make jewelry out of discarded computer parts) • Sponsor a texting contest to see which of your teen patrons can text the fastest

  15. Additional Resources from YALSA • Cool Teen Programs Under $100 (ALA store) • Future of Library Services for & with Teens report, www.ala.org/yaforum • Making & DIY Wiki at http://ow.ly/EupaZ • Teen Tech Week web site at www.ala.org/teentechweek • TTW on Twitter, #TTW16 • YA-YAAC, a listserv for library workers to share programming ideas, http://tinyurl.com/YAYAAC • Young Adult Library Services (quarterly journal)

  16. Please contact YALSA if we can be of help YALSA 50 E. Huron St. Chicago, IL 60611 1.800.545.2433 x4390 yalsa@ala.org www.ala.org/yalsa (web site) http://yalsa.ala.org/blog/ (YALSAblog) http://wikis.ala.org/yalsa/index.php (wiki)

  17. Who is YALSA? • YALSA stands for the Young Adult Library Services Association • Parent organization is the American Library Association (ALA) • Has over 5,100 members who are school librarians, public librarians, educators, grad students and library supporters • Mission is to support library staff in alleviating the challenges teens face, and in putting all teens ‒ especially those with the greatest needs ‒ on the path to successful and fulfilling lives.

  18. Questions or Comments?

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