1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBmwhmJ6Gz4

2.
 STAFF
 Different age groups need different
approaches… Even within teen/tween age
brackets

3.
Censorship/Intellectual Freedom
Age limit
Boundaries

4.
Begin with entry level software

5.
 Project-based programs that are hands-on and
result in an end product have been the most
successful for us
 Teens as expert mentors

6.
 Different methods of running a DML can
work:
 We chose to combine all of these ways
› Workshops (stationary lab or mobile)
› Regularly scheduled programs
› A Drop-in Lab that’s unstructured, where teens stop
by during open hours and decide the projects that
they work on
› System-wide contest, festival, or campaign

7.
SystemWide
Contest, Campaign,
or Festival

8.
A video contest in which kids
& teens make movies that
tell the entire story of a
Newbery award-winning
book in 90 seconds or less.

9.
90 Second Newbery Film Entry

10.
90 Second Newbery Film Entry

11.
• Middle School class & Retirement Home
• NPR StoryCorps curriculum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=W2qf9OsUSP8

12.
 Oral History Project
 Teen Advisory Board
Led Event:Tacoma
Home Companion

13.
Intensive 2-day workshop:
• Researching & script
writing a script
• Filming and composition
• Editing with Final Cut Pro
• Media literacy analysis
(specifically how women
are depicted in the media)

14.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRAJT54xFW0

15.
 iMovie
 Photography
 Music Sampling
 Minecraft Machinima
 Voice Over

16.
Regularly Scheduled
Programs

17.
Book Club
• Video booktalks
• Design book covers
• Photo Collage voice-over film
• 90-Second Newbery Film
• Blog with book reviews and animated gifs
Interactive Media Teen Book Club:
http://teenbookclubtpl.wordpress.com/
.

18.
A traditional teen
book club that
incorporates a book
club blog, teen
created video
booktalks, book
related digital art,
book inspired short
films and more!

19.
Kelly:
http://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=GcucroGd0Ng
More examples!
http://teenbookclubtpl.wor
dpress.com/video-
booktalks/

20.
 Manga-zine

21.
http://www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=0vXSlvurJJ4
Recorded in the StoryLab
Almost 300,000 hits on
YouTube!

22.
 Photoshop
 Pixelmator

23.
 Interactive MediaTeen Book Club:
http://teenbookclubtpl.wordpress.com/
• StoryLab FB: https://www.facebook.com/StoryLabTacoma
• StoryLabWeb site: http://storylabtacoma.org/
• TPLTeens FB: https://www.facebook.com/TacomaPublicLibraryTeens
• Kristy's Portfolio: http://kristyjojo.wordpress.com/
• StoryCorps Lesson Plan: http://storycorps.org/education/ (Download Intro to
StoryCorps Lesson)
kristy.gale@spl.org
sholloway@tplonline.org