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Tales from Cyber Space: Insights from New Millennials & a Low-Tech Librarian

Discover unique insights on the interwebs from teens, blending irony, touching moments, and a hint of illegality in this enlightening read. Use as an icebreaker or writing exercise for an average day's story. Explore how authors capture mundane details' sweetness, sadness, or hilarity in few words like a modern MLIA. Dive into TV Tropes, PostSecret confessions, StoryCorps tales, and support LGBTQ+ youth via the It Gets Better Project. Stimulate creativity with deviantART and scanlators, or engage in retrogaming, casual gaming, and game creation challenges.

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Tales from Cyber Space: Insights from New Millennials & a Low-Tech Librarian

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  1. New Millennials School a Low-Tech Librarian stuff I’ve learned from teens about the interwebs

  2. Cyber Space is ironic, touching, and sometimes illegal. MLIA- mylifeisaverage.com Use as an icebreaker: Tell about an average moment in your day. Use as inspiration for a writing exercise. An example of how good authors pay attention to mundane details, highlighting their sweetness, sadness, or hilarity. Or, use as an example of how a whole story can be told in a few words. “Today, i learned that in California, a law created in 1925 makes it illegal to wiggle while dancing. What about the Wiggles? MLIA” • TV Tropes- tvtropes.org Narrative Trope, Spectacle category: Chunky Updraft This website inspired one teen to write blurbs for non-existant books. We are not Wikipedia. We're a buttload more informal.

  3. PostSecret – postsecret.com Suitable for the confessional and the crafty StoryCorps – storycorps.org Plan a National Day of Listening program Play stories to complement book talks It Gets Better Project - youtube.com/user/itgetsbetterproject Brain child of Dan Savage Blog about it to support LBGT youth and their allies deviantART – deviantart.com Encourage your frequent zine and art gallery submitters to post their work Scanlators – mangafox.com (for example) You’ve noticed teens spending hours reading scans of unlicensed manga online. (Though sometimes it’s licensed. That’s where things get a-legal, if not illegal.) Use scanlators to peruse manga you are thinking of ordering. Check manganews.net for licensing status

  4. Hi Mrs. Berners-Lee, can the Internet come out to play? Retrogaming - virtualapple.org, virtualatari.org Challenge your teens to race across the Oregon Trail! Have a hunting contest! Casual Gaming – kongregate.com Invite your teens to share and play their favorite mini flash games. Careful, login is usually required, and anything goes in the chat boxes. Game Creation – atmosphir.com/atmosphir Hold a game-creation contest! Race to create the coolest game!

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