YALSA Teen Tech Week: March 7-13th

YALSA Teen Tech Week is coming March 7-13th, and our friends at Sourcebooks Teen Fire have put together some great content to complement YALSA’s materials.

Here’s what Paul at Sourcebooks wrote us:

This week of techno fun is a national initiative aimed at teens, librarians, educators, and other concerned adults to encourage teens to take advantage of libraries’ nonprint resources. YALSA has a variety of different activities and suggestions which can be found on their website.

Sourcebooks Fire (the YA imprint of Sourcebooks) is not only putting together a list of suggested activities, but we’re going to give teens a moderated forum to showcase their work to almost 1,000 of their peers who are also active online. Additionally, they will have the chance to win FREE BOOKS for both themselves and their libraries just by participating!

I put together a bunch of “how to” guides for librarians to use to make it easy for themselves and their students. To check everything out for yourself, go to http://teenfire.ning.com/group/TeenTechWeek/

And here are some of the events Teen Fire is planning for Teen Tech Week:

Share a Book Video Contest: Are you the next James Cameron? Create a book trailer, video review, scene from a book or any other book related short video (3 mins MAX) and upload it to the TeenFire video archive for a shot to win FREE copies of any 5 Sourcebooks Fire books for you & your library. For contest details & tips on how to do this quickly (and for free!), check out the Share a Book forum on TeenFire. As submissions come in, they’ll also be posted in our TeenFire Web Portal, prominently displayed on our front page. Featured videos will be picked at random, and we will continue to feature one teen video through March 19th (assuming we have enough contestants!)

Mad Men of Literature: Put Don Draper to shame using all your creative & technological powers to design an ad to inspire your peers to pick up a book! Five winners will receive an 11×17 poster of their ad, with additional copies available to their library. A grand prize winner will also receive free copies of any 5 Sourcebook Fire books, as will the sponsoring libraries. For details & guidelines, check out the Mad Men of Literature forum on TeenFire.

Pimp My Profile: Let your true colors show by customizing your profile page! Our TeenFire network allows much more flexibility in picking colors, uploading graphics and posting videos than a regular facebook page! For the easiest contest to enter in all Teen Tech Week, design a unique profile page & enter to win one book of your choosing for both yourself and your library from Sourcebooks Fire. For details and guidelines, check out the Pimp My Profile forum on TeenFire.

TeenFire Trailer Contest: Our authors need your help! Create trailers for any Sourcebooks Fire titles and enter to win five Sourcebooks Fire books of your choosing for you and your library. Since many of our YA books aren’t out yet, we’ve uploaded a few chapters of each title which can be read on each book group page. To register, check out the TeenFire Trailer forum on TeenFire.

(Restricted to teens ages 13-19, individuals and groups of up to five teens. Prizes for individuals will be shipped to a single address and distribution will be up to the recipient. All are invited to participate, but library prizes will only be shipped directly to a library address. Individual teens (not affiliated with a library) are free to participate, but are encouraged to contact local libraries to find out if they’re doing anything for Teen Tech Week. No disparaging comments or language will be tolerated and abusers will be banned at the administrator’s discretion. )