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teens n tech: where r wii? Laura Solomon OPLIN [email_address] www.librarygeekwoes.com

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Serving today… <ul><li>A little background </li></ul><ul><li>Cell phones </li></ul><ul><li>MySpace </li></ul><ul><li>WoW </li></ul><ul><li>Wii </li></ul><ul><li>Teen Second Life </li></ul><ul><li>What does all this mean to me, Laura? </li></ul>

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Where are we now ? http://flickr.com/photos/silvery/2414538926/

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Browser birthday

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“ Not a whole lot”…? <ul><li>“ Not a whole lot... her computer, her iPod, her cell phone, video games, that's it pretty much.” </li></ul>

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Teen Laura’s technology

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Laura’s mom’s technology

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Wifi in the womb ?

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Pay attention http://www.youtube.com/v/_M_336pDWoM

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Gadgets galore 84% 63%

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Why so much technology? CONNECTIONS

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Everyone’s doing it <ul><li>“ Social networking penetration with teens close to 100%” </li></ul><ul><li>Ad Age 2007 </li></ul>

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<ul><li>“ Let there be content !” </li></ul>L

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… and share it <ul><li>64% of online teens create content </li></ul>

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Kiss authoritative goodbye <ul><li>By 2010, 70% of all digital information being created will be user generated </li></ul>

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<ul><li>YOUTH </li></ul><ul><li>DON’T NEED </li></ul><ul><li>ANOTHER WEBSITE . </li></ul><ul><li>MTV ASIA, 2008 </li></ul>

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The Myspace generation <ul><li>“ They live online. They buy online. They play online. Their power is growing.” </li></ul><ul><li>--cover story, BusinessWeek </li></ul><ul><li>(December 12, 2005 ) </li></ul>

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MySpace…get over it <ul><li>It’s ugly </li></ul><ul><li>It’s controversial </li></ul><ul><li>It’s where your kids are </li></ul>

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<ul><li>&quot;Advice to parents: give your kids their (My)space&quot; </li></ul><ul><li>Larry D. Rosen, Ph.D </li></ul><ul><li>Author of Me, MySpace and I: Parenting the Net Generation </li></ul>

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More from Rosen <ul><li>“ Parents have a total misconception about what their kids are doing online.” </li></ul>

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More from Rosen clueless

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More from Rosen

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<ul><li>“ More than half of MySpace visitors are now age 35 or older ” </li></ul><ul><li>comScore Media Metrix </li></ul><ul><li>October 2006 </li></ul>

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Libraries with MySpace <ul><li>Clark County PL ( http://www.myspace.com/theinformationplace ) </li></ul><ul><li>Worthington PL ( http://www.myspace.com/worthingteens ) </li></ul><ul><li>Cleveland PL ( http://www.myspace.com/clevelandlibrary ) </li></ul><ul><li>OPLIN ( http://www.myspace.com/clevelandlibrary ) </li></ul>

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FWIW …cell phones http://flickr.com/photos/compujeramey/168108824/

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Bloom-Carroll High School <ul><li>Rural high school </li></ul><ul><li>Near Lancaster </li></ul><ul><li>Median income is $35,509 </li></ul>

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No cell? Not cool <ul><li>91% own a cell phone </li></ul><ul><li>83% text </li></ul><ul><li>Most important thing EVER </li></ul>

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Cell = Swiss Army Knife?

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What tools are vital ? <ul><li>Text messaging (72%) </li></ul><ul><li>Customize wallpaper (72%) </li></ul><ul><li>Take digital pictures (63%) </li></ul><ul><li>Play games (56%) </li></ul><ul><li>OTX (Online Testing eXchange) Nov. 2007 </li></ul>

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A new “digital divide” <ul><li>Cell No Cell </li></ul>

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<ul><li>World’s first “social film” coming later this year </li></ul>

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New words <ul><li>LOL </li></ul><ul><li>POS </li></ul><ul><li>IIRC </li></ul><ul><li>YMMV </li></ul><ul><li>WDALYIC </li></ul><ul><li>OMG a whole new language?? </li></ul>

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Why, yes it is <ul><li>SMS language </li></ul><ul><li>Chatspeak </li></ul><ul><li>Txt </li></ul><ul><li>Txtspk </li></ul><ul><li>texting language </li></ul><ul><li>txt talk </li></ul>

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Cells in libraries ?

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What can cells do in the library? <ul><li>Contests </li></ul><ul><li>Access the catalog/website </li></ul><ul><li>Get SMS about holds, overdues </li></ul>

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http://www.twitter.com

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Video games…at school??

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The Wii

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<ul><li>“ Let's get this out of the way first: the Wii's graphics look terrible compared with the competition. But within about a half hour of playing games on Nintendo's revolutionary Wii, you won't care. “ </li></ul><ul><li>PC Magazine, 11/13/06 </li></ul>

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How long does it take to sell a Wii in the U.S.? 1 hour. Wired, 04/23/08

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It’s all about the people

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Wii commercial http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/p5cPVP_llfo

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Wii Fit

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But in MY library? <ul><li>YES! </li></ul>

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Laura’s bday present Will be available for play during the break!

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<ul><li>MMORPG </li></ul><ul><li>Largest in the WORLD </li></ul><ul><li>Introduction by 12 th grader ( http://youtube.com/watch?v=mmz3nxbnB2k ) </li></ul>

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<ul><li>An incredible level of complexity </li></ul>An incredible level of complexity Seeing is believing http://www.warcraftmovies.com/stream.php?id=56860&stream=&h=af23946841f708d18f5a765d0382ab8e

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How can libraries support WoW?

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Virtual is real

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“ Most people over 30 have a bit of difficulty grasping the concept of why you’d want a digital version of yourself online.” New York Times , Dec. 10, 2006

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Eye4You Alliance http://www.youtube.com/v/8r2sTKx7KvA

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So what does all this mean to me, Laura?

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Your “patrons” may not be in your tax locality

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Outreach is now also digital

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<ul><li>The word “friend” may be redefined </li></ul>

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Experiment. <ul><li>There may be no better moment, in our lifetimes, to do so. </li></ul>

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Questions? <ul><li>IM: lebachai (MSN, Gtalk, Yahoo, AIM) </li></ul><ul><li>Twitter: laurasolomon </li></ul><ul><li> OPLIN </li></ul><ul><li>Old-fashioned email: [email_address] </li></ul><ul><li>Slides will be at http://www.slideshare.net/OPLIN </li></ul>