Thursday, September 25, 2008

Beth Galloway is awesome, part 2

Etools for DND. Auto leveling, stats.

Teen Gaming interest group

Games: goals.
Tools
Learning
Second chances
Goals: winning, shiny things, levels

LEET on wikipedia.

Carol has never been to game night in a public library. How long has she been around?

http://www.boardgameswithscott.com/

Use games for readers advisory
Be a strategy guide - not a level boss
Embrace your inner techno geek
Embrace change!!
Immerse in pop culture


The adventures of Blue Avenger

Teen Tech Week March 2009

Gamingwithchildren.com
videogame librarian.com
mediafamily.org (take with grain of salt?)

Handheld Program: cellphone clinic
PSP gamefest
DS party

Guitar Hero Tournament (red octane.com)

Library wish list online?

Overdrive will be offering video games soon?

Offering games from one console, but allow donations from other consoles.

Helen McGraw gaming check out policy looks good. $35 cap, means no new games? Buy used games from gamestop? Promised to work.

aadl.org (Eli has made their leaderboard available for libraries.

aadl.org/aadlgt

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

MyFacebook and Beyond: Beth Galloway

web 2.0 – web as platform (sims onstage)
collective intelligence (wikispaces)
data driven (slideshare)
everything is in beta (meebo)
simple programming (facebook)
cross platform (twitter)
rich user experience

assumptions:
everything meant to be shared
everything is meant to be critiqued.
everything is meant to be remixed.

programming
slideshow of teen pages. “This is my page” and why.
pimp your myspace
lecture/demo for parents?

author connections
biographical myspace
career mentoring
author connections

Links:
http://www.zinch.com/
http://www.slideshare.net/informationgoddess29
http://usernamecheck.com/
http://thesimsonstage.ea.com/index.html
http://www.gcast.com/?nr=1&&s=107261189