Jen's Page

You all did a wonderful job- hope you enjoy hearing the fruits of your labors! http://http://www.yalsa.ala.org/yalsapresident2010/?page_id=9

Kelly, Erica Sternin (Seattle), Janet and Hedra Packman (Free Library/Philadelphia) did a wonderful job at our presentation on Friday afternoon. We had a nice turn out - I think the room held about 250 and it was almost full. Our audience was interested and engaged and had lots of practical questions - the idea of using flash drives to avoid issues of network security seemed to capture a lot of interest.

Here's a nice presentation about the importance of digital content creation for youth. Nichole Pinkard talks about her work at Youmedia (Chicago Public). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUfHZu54W8c

Both Cynthia and Jason have been selected by ALA to participate in an Emerging Leaders program during 2010. I'm not at all surprised and totally excited for both. If they represent the future of libraries, we're in excellent hands!

This is a really nice article by the creators of Scratch -- Scratch Programming for all.