Scratch in Libraries
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Scratch Galleries / Users with projects from library programming
This is a Scratch Gallery created at Brooklyn Park Library in Minnesota for projects created at the library in collaboration with LTC
Learning Technologies Projects on the Scratch website... this includes some from our efforts in local libraries
Programming in Libraries
Watertown Free Public Library Children's Room: Scratch
watertownchildrensdepartment.blogspot.com/2008/06/... Scratch programming with tweens
Evanston Public Library - tweens
ALA TechSource Gaming, Learning, and Libraries Symposium - TechSource Gaming Symposium
gaming.techsource.ala.org/index.php/Main_Page#2008... We'll ( Jennifer Nelson and Keith )present at the symposium in November on the Game Design Studio Evaluation project. Jenny Levine is coordinating.
Journals, Events and Professional Development
Overview of Public Library Association Conference session 2008 | Learning Technologies Center
www.smm.org/ltc/node/93 Overview of PLA presentation in March 2008
PLA Highlights 21st Century Librarians - 3/31/2008 2:00:00 PM - School Library Journal
www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6546467.htm... This article highlights the teens who co-presented ( and stole the show) from the Game Studio Teen Tech Squad from the Minneapolis Public Library
From Playing to Creating: Teaching Game Design - 10/1/2007 - School Library Journal
www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6484337.htm... The first article is by Christy Mulligan, teen librarian at the Minneapolis Public Library where we ( LTC ) collaborated to introduce and train teens as mentors / instructors as the Teen Tech Squad - this was a way that we thought we might address the sustainability question for program offerings as well as providing youth development job experiences. It was a natural evolution of our program efforts: teens teaching teens - before the development of the rich Scratch online community.
Wilmette Public Library | ALA Gaming, Learning and Libraries Symposium Teen Panel 2007
www.wilmettelibrary.info/teens/teen_alapanel.php ALA Gaming, Learning and Libraries Symposium
Resources - Media, blogs
those needed to make the best use of rapidly
changing technologies; the so-called “soft skills”
that computers can’t provide, like creativity; and those
considered vital to working and living in an increasingly complex,
rapidly changing global society
Essay - At School, Technology Starts to Turn a Corner - NYTimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/technology/17essay.html... Jenny Levine's recent recordings on gaming,
Jenny Levine writes about Scratch in libraries
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