Snapshot: Teens and web use -  Lenhart, Pew Internet & American Life Project, August 16, 2007

Music -

• Last.fm hype list: http://www.last.fm/music/

• MySpace music page:  - http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music 

• Mashable’s online music toolbox: - http://mashable.com/2007/07/06/online-music/  (content creation)

• Internet radio that “learns” your tastes (http://pandora.com/, http://www.slacker.com/)

Alternative news sources -

• http://moveon.org/

• http://www.democracynow.org/

• http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/ 

Content creation Remixing: Video + music + text, etc. -

• See http://mashable.com

Case studies -

• http://www.deviantart.com/ 

• http://www.fanfiction.net/ 

• http://craftster.org/ 

Library 2.0

Finding ways to make tools safe(ish), for example:

• Filtered e-mail and blogging services - http://www.gaggle.net

• Free blogging for educators - http://edublogs.org/

• Self-contained social networks - http://www.ning.com/

Library 2.0 in practice

• Queens Library for Teens - http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6574016.html

• Examples from YALSA’s Teen Tech Week Wiki - http://wikis.ala.org/yalsa/index.php/

• Blogging  Libraries wiki

• NMH Library Reading Room - http://nmhlibrary.typepad.com/

• Ann Arbor Public Library Axis (teen area) - http://www.aadl.org/services/axis

• Wikis as pathfinders - http://unihighlibrary.pbwiki.com/Chicano+Research

• Homework help with del.icio.us at Homer Township Public Library - http://del.icio.us/homrteens

• YA services presence on MySpace - http://www.myspace.com/libraryloft

• Book discussion forum - https://www.uni.uiuc.edu/bbs/viewforum.php?f=5

• Enhancing the catalog with LibraryThing - http://unihighlibrary.librarything.com/catalog/unihighlibrary

• A Zombie Speller display - http://www.uni.uiuc.edu/library/blog/2006/10/more-display-fun.html  (using http://e-zombie.com/  and http://flickr.com/)

Don’t die before you try…

• RSS (really simple syndication) -
• RSS in Plain English - http://www.blip.tv/file/205570/
• Bloglines - http://www.bloglines.com, and Google Reader - http://www.google.com/reader
• Embedding feeds -
  • http://unihighlibrary.pbwiki.com/Science+News+Feeds
  • http://www.library.uiuc.edu/ugl/
• Personalized web environments -
• iGoogle - http://www.google.com/ig or Pageflakes:
• Jefferson Middle School, Champaign - http://www.pageflakes.com/JSMVirtualLibrary/20631985

How can I possibly keep up?

• The YALSA blog: http://yalsa.ala.org/blog

• The Blue Skunk Blog, from Doug Johnson: http://doug-johnson.squarespace.com/blue-skunk-blog

• Joyce Valenza's Never Ending Search: http://www.slj.com

• YALSA’s Teen Tech Week wiki, general resources: http://wikis.ala.org/yalsa/index.php/General_resources_for_Teen_Tech_Week

• http://teacherlibrarianwiki.pbwiki.com/

• Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki: http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

• The AASL blog: http://www.aasl.ala.org/aaslblog

• Ypulse, teen tech trends from Anastasia Goodstein: http://www.ypulse.com/

• Five Weeks to a Social Library: http://www.sociallibraries.com/course/

References

Estabrook, Lee, Evans Witt, and Lee Rainie, December 30, 2007. Information searches that solve problems. Pew Internet & American Life Project.

Jussel, Amy, May 3, 2007. “Zwinktopia slides younger teens into their virtual playground.” Shaping Youth Blog. http://www.shapingyouth.org/blog/?p=419

Lenhart, Amanda, August 16, 2007. A timeline of teens and technology. Presentation at the American Psychological Association, Pew Internet & American Life Project.

Lenhart, Amanda and Mary Madden, April 18, 2007. Teens, privacy, and online social networks. Pew Internet & American Life Project.

Madden, Mary, July 25, 2007. Online video. Pew Internet & American Life Project.

Harris Interactive, 2007. Disney mobile cell and tell survey.

National School Boards Association, 2007. Creating & connecting: Research and guidelines on online social - and educational - networking.

O’Connor, Maureen. 2008. Make it new: Queens Library for Teens. School Library Journal 54 (7): 38-9.

Smith, Aaron, October 14, 2007. Teens and online stranger contact. Pew Internet & American Life Project.

Wolak, Janet, David Finkelhor, Kimberley J. Mitchell, and Michelle L. Ybarra, February 18, 2008. Online “predators” and their victims: Myths, realities, and implications for prevention and treatment. American Psychologist, 63 (2). Press release: http://www.apa.org/releases/sexoffender0208.html

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