Meeting Minutes

We had 11 teens at our second meeting where we decided...

1) to stick with the name of the group as TAG
2) to create a podcast/radio show and call it 'The TAG Show'
3) to create vodcasts on the history of the library, our favorite books, movies, etc.
4) to have a teen movie night in May or June
5) that we love rice krispie treats!

We also spent some time looking at the teen blog and delicious tags. Everyone agreed that both are great but we need to add to the delicious tags. Please add your favorite websites in the comments so I can add them to our delicious!

Our next meeting is Thursday, May 8 at 4 p.m.

Sample vodcast (video) and podcast (audio recording)

Here is a sample video I made using the Flip video recorder and YouTube.



Here is a sample audio podcast I made using Audacity and Switchpod, both of which are FREE.

You're invited!

I've sent some of you an invite to post to the teen blog. If you're having trouble figuring out how to do this, why not watch this first?

Video: How to post to the teen blog

New Stuff!

We just got some new YA Graphic Novels in the library...

Clubbing
Re-Gifters
Confessions of a Blabbermouth
Kimmie66
Good as Lily

Madlibs turn 50!

Did you know that Madlibs have been around for 50 years? Make your own MadLib below--don't forget to scroll down (or go play MadLibs games on the website) and then check out my madlib!






Diva Girl Mad Libs
Copyright (c) 2004 by Price Stern Sloan

The Adventures of Jane

Jane no way! is a great comic book. It's the story of pretty Jane Jones, who is a/an librarian by day, but sneaks around the city of new york by night as a/an nurse. Jane is asked by a group of dogs to help them ran and protect the planet from the zoinks! Armada, who are going to climb, attack the planet, and destroy all the mice! Jane no way! has some of the most brainy gadgets around. She wears a/an purple on her pants and carries a rocket-powered neck. She even has a/an book that turns into a/an shoe at the heater of a button! I think, if I could be any comic-book character at all, I'd want to be Jane no way!, wouldn't you?

Meeting minutes

Hooray for an awesome meeting! Eleven teens met in the library auditorium today for the first-ever Millicent Library TAG meeting. We introduced ourselves, talked about what TAG is and then got down to fun with a scavenger hunt all around the library. Tori and Jackie won with 11/15 correct answers. Whoooo! Next up we took a quick survey to find out what events we were interested in...here are the results:

11 votes for Movie Nights
10 votes for Game Nights
10 votes for Ductigami
10 votes for Raise $$ for comfy furniture for teen area
9 votes for Creating videos
8 votes for Book Clubs
8 votes for Role Playing Games (like Dungeons & Dragons)
7 votes for Jewelry making
6 votes for Improv workshop
6 votes for Scrabble tournament
6 votes for Mehndi/Henna Tattoos
6 votes for writing on the teen blog
5 votes for Teen Yoga
5 votes for Open Mic Poetry Night
4 votes for Book Swap/Game Swap
4 votes for Zine Workshop
4 votes for Audio Podcast

See you all at our next meeting on Thursday, April 24th at 2 p.m.!

Teen Group starts tomorrow!

Tomorrow is the first meeting of the new Millicent Library Teen Advisory Group (possible new name coming soon). I'm really excited and I hope all of you are, too!!! You were all nominated to the group by someone who thinks you're awesome. I can't wait to meet you all...

Some things we might do:

• publish our own podcast or vodcast about books, the library, etc.
• help me write on this blog!
  
• plan teen events like game tournaments (think DDR, Guitar Hero, maybe Rock Band??)
• share our favorite books with each other
• play games (like the scavenger hunt we're doing tomorrow)
  

See you tomorrow in the library auditorium/activity (downstairs). I'll be the one with pop, juice, brownies and rice krispie treats. :) (any other suggestions for snacks? put them in the comments and maybe I'll bring them to a meeting!)

Check out the weekly poll!

I've added a poll feature off to the right (scroll down a little bit). Be sure to weigh in before the week is out!

Yum yum...Del.icio.us!

Have you noticed the new addition to the blog? The word cloud off to the right (crafts, recommendations, etc.) is a Del.icio.us tag cloud. Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking site...instead of hitting "Bookmark this page" in Internet Explorer or Firefox, you can add all the websites you want to go back to later using Del.icio.us. This is great, because you probably don't use the same computer every day. I know I love it...I can still find my bookmarks whether I'm using my home computer, my work computer or a computer at a friend's house.

I've created a Del.icio.us page for teens in this area...check out some of the links to the right! Try the word games to find links to fun online games. Check out recommendations for websites that will recommend new music, clothing, etc. for you. The words that are bigger are the ones that I've used most often to "tag" or describe the websites. For pandora, my favorite music website, I used these tags: music, recommendations, social, search. These are all words that I think describe the website.

You can help me add to this, too. Email me your favorite websites whether they're games, music sites or whatever. Feel free to tell me what to "tag" them, too.... Or you can make your own del.icio.us account and we can be in a "network" so we can see each other's tags.

Tell me what you think in the comments!!