Geek Out @ your library, March 4-10, 2012
2012 Sponsors/Supporters
Corporate Sponsors
ALA Graphics
Your source for posters, bookmarks, gifts, incentives, and other library and school promotions including the official materials for Teen Read Week, Teen Tech Week, National Library Week, and Banned Books Week. Check out ALA Graphics for the offical product line for Teen Tech Week at www.alastore.ala.org.
Audio Publishers Association
The Audio Publishers Association (APA) is a not-for-profit trade association that advocates the common, collective business interests of audio publishers. The APA consists of audio publishing companies and allied suppliers, distributors, and retailers of spoken word products and allied fields related to the production, distribution and sale of audiobooks.
AudioGO
AudioGO is a leading publisher of unabridged audiobooks and radio dramatizations for adults, teens and children. Authors we carry include Lisi Harrison, Irene Hunt, Laini Taylor, James Patterson, Lois Duncan, Agatha Christie and Dick King-Smith.
Figment
Figment is an online community where young adults and teens come together to create, discover, and share new reading and writing. Figment is also an innovative, exciting teaching tool, already being used in classrooms, libraries, and other educational settings around the country to inspire and engage young readers and writers.
Hackasaurus
Hackasaurus spreads skills, attitudes, and ethics that help youth thrive in a re-mixable digital world. By making it easy for youth to tinker and mess around with the building blocks that make up the web, Hackasaurus helps tweens move from digital consumers to active producers, seeing the web as something they can actively shape, remix and make better.
Peachtree Publishers
Peachtree Publishers is an independently owned trade publisher specializing in quality children’s books, from children's fiction and non-fiction picture books for children 2-12, juvenile chapter books, and young adult fiction and non-fiction; and consumer references in health, education, and parenting. Our mission is to create books that captivate and educate young and old alike.
Tutor.com
Tutor.com is the #1 provider of innovative, on-demand homework help, tutoring and career services that connects students of all ages to a professional tutor online the moment they need help in math, science, social studies or English. Our network of over 2,000 professional tutors has delivered more than 6 million one-to-one tutoring sessions.
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Celebrate technology for teens at your library this March with YALSA! #ttw12
Registration Benefits
After you register, you'll receive an email directing you to the Geek Out @ your library logo. In addition:
- the first 98 registrants will receive complimentary registration for a webinar on Feb. 1, 2012, on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) resources. All other registrants will receive a recording of the webinar.
- one registrant will win a Skype session with author JJ Johnson in a random drawing, courtesy of TTW Partner Peachtree Publishers
- all registrants will be mailed a Technology Resource Pack, including bookmarks featuring YALSA's Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults and a Social Networking for Teens brochure. The resource packs are designed to help you extend Teen Tech Week throughout the year and will not arrive in time for Teen Tech Week.
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Incorporating STEM into Your Library and Teen Tech Week
Started by YALSA in Uncategorized. Last reply by Tara Thibault-Edmonds Mar 14. 2 Replies 0 Likes
STEM -- Science, Technology, Education, and Math -- is the latest buzzword in education. How does your library incorporate STEM into its offerings? What are some ideas for using Teen Tech Week to…Continue
Celebrating Teen Tech Week in a Public Library
Started by YALSA in Uncategorized. Last reply by Beatrice Canales Mar 4. 16 Replies 0 Likes
Do you work at a public library? Tell us about how you plan to celebrate TTW this year!Continue
Teen Tech Week Displays
Started by YALSA in Sample Title. Last reply by Beatrice Canales Mar 4. 1 Reply 0 Likes
What kind of displays do you have planned for Teen Tech Week for your library or for your library's web site? Use this space to share ideas, photos and URLs. If you upload photos to Flickr, be sure…Continue
Teen Curators?
Started by Karen Lemmons in Sample Title. Last reply by Jan Yanecek Jan 4. 1 Reply 2 Likes
I recently attended the AASL National Conference in Minneapolis. I listened to an interesting session on teens as curators of digital and print media. How can we help teens become better…Continue
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TTW Posts from YALSABlog
No Teen Tech Week at My Library
Confession: I have a graveyard of programs that did not work at my library. I am an enthusiastic programmer, and with no quantitative data on what teen programs worked at my library in the decade before I arrived, I have enjoyed free rein in attempting a vast variety of programs. Unfortunately, any great number of [...]The Teen Tech Week QR code scavenger hunt has begun!
Are you at Midwinter and do you want to win some fabulous prizes? Then take part in the Teen Tech Week scavenger hunt, by following the QR code clues throughout the conference and online. If you reach the end and enter your name on the secret raffle page, you’ll have a chance to win a fabulous [...]Join YALSA for a Midwinter Hack Jam!
Get a pair of x-ray goggles that really work! While these may not see through a steel plate, they can see right through the Internet! YALSA is pleased to host a demonstration of one of the Mozilla Foundation’s newest tools: the Hackasaurus web x-ray goggles. This javascript app gives teens – and anybody else – [...]Groups
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