COREY WITTIG, DIGITAL LEARNING LIBRARIAN – TEEN SERVICES
Creating a Digital Media Space for Today's Teens
Corey Wittig• MLIS, University of
Pittsburgh 2010• Digital Learning
Librarian – Teen Services
• Program manager of The Labs @ CLP
Digital Learning Librarian
• 19 locations
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
• Population 307,484
What’s the deal with The Labs?
• CLP’s Teen-only Digital Learning Lab initiative
• 4 locations system-wide
• Outreach programming
• Tours & trainings
YOUmedia Chicago – the big cheese
HOMAGO 3 levels of engagement
• Hanging Out
• Messing Around
• Geeking OutYoumediachicago.org
Identified by Professor Mimi Ito & colleagues after
interviewing 700 youth.
• The Chicago Public Library and The Digital Youth Network collaborated to create YOUmedia
• Based on Professor Ito’s research – Univ. of Chicago
• DYN grew out of MacArthur Foundation’s Digital Media & Learning Initiative
Digitalyouthnetwork.org
Chipublib.org
YOUmedia.org
Connected Learning• Learning continues outside the classroom
• Connected Learning is:– Socially connected– Interest-driven– Connects learning w/ personal interests and
expresses itself as academic success, career success, or civic engagement.
YOUmedia & Pittsburgh: a history
• The YOUmedia physical space was designed by a team of graduate students under the direction of Professors Drew Davidson and Jesse Schell from the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University. – youmediachicago.org
Dr. Drew DavidsonActing Director of the ETC
STORY
Main – Teen Dept.
Your Pittsburgh – My interview presentation was a neighborhood-centered digital storytelling program.
From Humble Beginnings…
Getting started, or How Do You Create an Initiative Out of Thin Air?
• Plan your program in the context of your library’s Strategic Plan/vision/mission statement– At every turn in the search for funding
you will have to justify your program. It starts here.
– Root it in research.
(It might sound
obvious, but)
It’s scalable!
Institutional Buy-in
MissionTo Engage our Community in Literacy and Learning
Vision StatementCarnegie Library of Pittsburgh will inspire in the citizens of our region respect and responsibility for life-long learning, citizenship, and civic participation.
LITERACY
http://www.search-institute.org
Testing the waters: programming while we wait
QuickFLIX: an existing program, expanded
Stop-Motion Animation workshop w/ PGHFilmmakers mentors and Labs iPads
Teen Media Awards 2012
HIP-HOP ON L.O.C.K.
• We’d done film before, but music was new
• Learn from experts.• Further the mission
of your partners
HHOL workshop at East Liberty
pre-Labs launch
FindingPartners
An online space to meet
Sparkpgh.org
We found more partners…
HackPittsburgh
• Bring your professional passion to it.• We’re librarians—even if you don’t have a
Development office, you have great resources• Communicate how your region or service area
will benefit• Communicate sustainability• There’s so much great research out now—use it!
Grant Writing
Our Funding: 2012• IMLS – our first application in late
2011 was not awarded funding.• The Heinz Endowments funded The
Labs for two years (2012-2013)• The Snee-Reinhardt Charitable
Foundation funded iMacs at all four locations
• The Grable Foundation continued to fund the Digital Learning Librarian position.
Hack Jam: Mozilla Summer of Code
Free Mozilla web-making
tools: Thimble, X-Ray Goggles,
Popcorn
Warhol D.I.Y. app
Mentors – the key to success
Andre Costello
Molly Dickerson
• Lead workshops
• Available online and face-to-face
• Molly – MLIS, fine art BFA
• Andre – Local musician with degree in graphic design
Stachematic app
Practice(not a game)
Equipment, or what to buy?
http://www.skokielibrary.info/
Other programs:• Skokie Public
Library• IMLS Learning
Labs grant awardees
• YOUmedia• Give me a call!
Teen Advisory Council
•Shaped policy•Chose equipment•Debated program name
• Great for creating equipment wish lists, cataloging program ideas, etc.
iPads for programming, outreach, and more
• Jack of all trades device
• Borrowed by teen specialists system-wide for programming and outreach
• Borrowed by teens in Main Lab afterschool
• “hanging out” & “messing around”
PowerSync Tray for iPad by Bretford
Grafiti Nootle iPad mount
Apps we love• gifBoom (animated .gifs)• Doink (animation)• Smoovie (stop-motion)• Cinemagram (.gifs)• Comiclife (make comics!)• DM-1 (beat making)• iMovie (video)• Rockmate (music—4
instruments at once!)• Book Creator• LeafSnapHD (botany)• Star Walker (astronomy)• Vintagio (silent film)
The Labs Video Equipment
• Canon Vixia HF R500 – consumer grade camera• Green screen (DIY if you can)• Shotgun mic• Boom
The Labs Audio/Music Equipment
M-Audio Fast Track Pro
M-Audio Oxygen 49 Midi-Controller
Blue Snowball mic, and more!
The Labs Photography Equipment
• Nikon D3100• Digital SLR
camera• 16GB memory
cards• Could use SLR
for your video camera – better lens
APPLE
• Apple – certainly not necessary, but probably the best and easiest for digital media lab programming. (Better graphics, video, etc.)
• iLife included (iMovie, GarageBand, etc.)
• Will your IT Dept. support it? (Ours does not.)
• Not networked = not ideal
Google Drive
• Great for collaborating on non-networked computers• Sharing our calendar• Have to pay to sync & use Drive for business soon (?)
The Labs Software
• Adobe Creative Suite CS6• Including Photoshop,
Illustrator, Premiere, After Effects, etc.
• Sibelius Musitian (music theory software)
• iLife Suite (iMovie, Garageband, iPhoto, etc.) – free with Mac
• Microsoft Office for Mac
Monoprice 12x9 drawing tablet and Adobe Photoshop
The Labs: Miscellaneous Equipment
M-Audio AV40 Studio Monitors
Equipment sheets
Equipment policies
• Reserve a computer or equipment in Labs space with library card/photo I.D.
• Borrowing – will allow teens with badges and library card/photo I.D. to use cameras, etc. outside and around the library
Graphics and creating a brand
SPACES• 2nd to mentors in importance (I think)• 2 branch Labs (East Liberty and Allegheny—recently
renovated) are housed in meeting rooms until a teen space build-out scheduled for 2013-2014
• Meeting rooms—temporary solution, but can make it work
• South Side (newly renovated) Lab is in the old caretaker’s apartment/programming space on the second floor
• Main Lab housed in CLP-Teen Dept.
SOUND ISSUES
• Headphones
• USB recording interface means all you hear is muted strumming or keyboard strikes.
• Teen space/digital media lab is ideally placed in a dedicated space, set off from other library services. (Obvious, maybe, but true!)
Primacoustic VoxGuard Microphone Isolation Panel ($99)
Guitar and Midi-Keyboard in CLP-Main Lab.
Hours and Locations
Saturday hours at Main coming soon!
CLP-Main, Teen Department
The Labs corner at CLP, Main
CLP - East LibertyThe East Lib. crew work on their latest film project, at the East Liberty Lab, January 2013.
• Different meeting rooms depending on branch programming schedule
• New teen space in 2014
CLP - Allegheny• Meeting room space • Branch has small
teen area, but open floor plan making programming unrealistic
• New teen space Summer 2013
• Full-time teen librarian who will assist w/ The Labs
CLP - Allegheny
CLP – South Side• Newly renovated branch
• Space is in former caretaker’s apartment (upstairs)
• Adaptable hangout/loft space
The Thick of It:Program Design
YOUmedia & The Labs guidelines.
Teen Time• Weekdays
2:00 - 6:00 PM
• Furniture and computers are restricted to teen use
• Teen-only programming
• Teen volunteers
Digital Media Lab or Makerspace?
Who cares?(As long as you’re
creating.)
Workshops• Monthly themed workshops
• Rotating themes – multimedia (video, photography, graphic design, music/audio production, maker crafts, programming, etc.)
• Each week at all 4 Labs locations
• Project-based curriculum
Badges: a way to “level up” informal learning
-Earn a badge by accomplishing workshop learning objectives
-Badges confer special borrowing privileges to the earner
-Earn 2 badges and get the Regulars badge
Labs badges by mentor Andre Costello.
Open LabMonday, Tue., Friday @ CLP-Main
Creations from open time at CLP-Main.
Lynda.com
• High-quality video tutorials
• For professional development
• For teen training
• Large YA print collection already exists in Main-Teen Dept.• Labs print collection is a helpful variety of relevant print materials:
guides, art books, manuals, and periodicals. • Added benefit of tying “risky” new program to traditional resources:
supporting multi-modal literacy
Print collection
Room to create with Self-directed learning
Planning session for Chronology – a planned sci-fi web series.
Mentors offer guidance as needed
The Labs Kits
• Stop-Motion Animation Kit: with iPad and Smoovie App
• Soft-Circuits Kit: LEDs, conductive thread crafts
• MaKey MaKey Invention Kit
Soft-circuit kitMaKey-MaKey
Promotion and connectivity: website, social media, etc.
youmedia.org• Difficult to accomplish on popular
social media• iRemix – cloud-based social
learning network
Library as Incubator
www.libraryasincubatorproject.org/
Launch Event!Sponsored by GooglePittsburgh
Above: Izzy Realz performsBelow: Morgan WK in The Labs
Teen Services Coordinator, LeeAnn Anna and I.
2 types of volunteer opportunities
1.Assist mentors in programming2.Develop a feature program using a
special skill of the volunteer
Volunteers: community experts
• Follow-up to Labs filmmaking workshops
• Participants worked with commercial director on Saturday film shoot
Romie – East Liberty regular and
Labs commercial lead actor.
Promotion:It’s My Library Commercial
Cel.ly• Free opt-in/opt-out
group texts• Great for program
reminders
The Future• Professional Development
• Tours & group visits
• In-system “outreach”
• Saturday hours at Main
• Two new mentors!
• Expanded teen spaces and hours at East Liberty and Allegheny w/ 2 new full-time staff
The New Chapter
Outreach
The Labs Photobooth w/ PopBooth free app for iPad
Pittsburgh Public Schools Summer Dreamers Academy Outreach
Expanded feature workshops with partners
• HackPittsburgh – soldering and Arduino workshop
• QuickFLIX Film Workshops w/ Pittsburgh Filmmakers Youth Media Program & Pittsburgh Community TV
• Music production with Hip-Hop on L.O.C.K.
• Grant-funded programs w/ CMU’s Hear Me, Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, and others.
Matthew Beckler – CMU PHD student and HackPittsburgh instructor.
Take pART: a collaboration with CMU’s Hear Me and Jordan Mroziak, a Duquesne University Professor and Kids & Creativity network member.
• Led by partners with assistance of Labs mentors
• Connected through K&C network
Our Funding: 2013• IMLS – our second application
was awarded funding in late 2012.
• 2nd year of funding from The Heinz Endowments(2012-2013)
• The Laurel Foundation has funded mentors, equipment, and professional development
• The Grable Foundation continues to fund the Digital Learning Librarian position.
• Identified through badging system
• Peer volunteers• The Labs’ “Capstone”
Teen volunteers
Contact Me and Follow Us:• Corey Wittig - [email protected]
• @CLP_Tweets (Twitter)
•CLPTeens YouTube - www.youtube.com/user/CLPTeens
• Facebook.com/CLPTeen (Facebook)
• Clpteensburgh.org (Teen Services blog)
• The Labs on the CLP website: www.carnegielibrary.org/teens/events/programs/thelabs/