I saw this in VOYA … Askthejudge is a new website for and about teens and the law, offering everything that teens need to know about the juvenile court system and the laws that affect youth. The creator of the site is a retired judge and Assistant Attorney General of the state of Arizona. Cool!
Anastasia Goodstein wrote an article that your teen girls should read, about keeping private information private. You can find it at http://beinggirl.com/en_US/pages/articledetail.jsp?ContentId=ART11951.
The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), the fastest-growing division of the American Library Association (ALA), announced this week that Dungeons & Dragons, a subsidiary of Wizards of the Coast, Inc., is the 2008 Corporate Sponsor for Teen Tech Week, taking place March 2-8. D&D!! How cool is that?
Registration information, resources, products and more can be found at the Teen Tech Week Web site, www.ala.org/teentechweek.
I just read about a new “face” for Singshot.com - the former karaoke/audio reading website – on the YALSA blog. Here’s what Beth Gallaway had to say:
“I’m not clear if the site was originally owned by Maxis’ EA Games, with intent to launch another Sims Expansion pack, but I don’t care if it was a bait & switch, because the tools are really cool, like Movie Mashups – you can make your own machinima music videos with clips and stills from the Sims. You can create an avatar of yourself that looks like a Sims character. Plus, they added 100 new songs at the beginning of month, and this may become a regular thing: over 80 new titles were added at the end of September, with hits from current pop artists like Teddy Gieger, Nickleback and Fallout Boy, plus a nice mix of country, R&B, and Christian artists as well …”
Wouldn’t that be a fun teen program? Hook up the PC to a projector, plug in a couple mikes, and you’re ready! Or have kids create recordings of poetry, comedy routines, or stories – lots of possibilities!
Anastasia Goodstein, author of the book pictured here, and of the Ypulse.com blog, will be touring Massachusetts in early October as part of her national book tour. She will be appearing at the libraries listed below. If you get the chance to hear her speak, go! She’s one of the top experts on this topic and it’s awesome that she will be in our state!
Contact the host library to be sure of the time/date before you go. The program at Marlborough Public Library is through the Central Region – you can register at http://www.cmrls.org/. Hope you can make it to see her!
Tuesday, October 2, time tba Clapp Memorial Library, Belchertown, MA
Wednesday, October 3, 4 p.m. Manchester-By-The-Sea Public Library, Manchester, MA
Wednesday, October 3, 7:00 p.m. Peabody Institute Library
Thursday, October 4, 3 p.m. Wareham Free Library, Wareham, MA
Thursday, October 4, 8 p.m. Strugis Charter Public School, Hyannis, MA
Friday, October 5, 6:30 p.m. Westport Free Public Library, Westport, MA
Tuesday, October 9, 6:30 p.m. Faneuil Branch Library, Brighton, MA
Wednesday, October 10, 10 a.m. Metrowest MA Regional Library System, Waltham, MA
Wednesday, October 10, 7 p.m. Chickering Elementary School & Dover Schools, Dover, MA
Thursday, October 11, 10 a.m. Marlborough Public Library, Marlborough, MA
Thursday, October 11, 7 p.m. Sargent Memorial Library, Boxborough, MA
