As with many events, people might not realize what goes on ‘behind the scenes’ to help make it happen. The teens on Eye4You that helped make the festival happen did a fantastic job. Maybe some of these things seem small but together, they helped make the event a great time for the authors and other attendees. Teens made signs, sent out announcements, designed the area for the festival, helped troubleshoot, created refreshments (thanks Soul!), had greeters from the TSL greeters group on hand, and presented themselves about Eye4You’s printing press and the Mock Printz club. Thanks especially to Daniel and Storm, TeachingBooks.net, and Chicago Public Schools.
Authors were willing to give out copies of their books and we had a ‘drawing’ inworld, thanks to Jereon for scripting the hat. (thanks to Doyle for making the original hat). Author Marc Aronson and Barry Lyga showed a cool video and talked about their books and issues from their books such as race and being a fanatic (about comic books). Thanks to Lulu, a publisher on Eye4You, led the teens through a writing exercise.
transcripts:
beginning and author Marc Aronson: pliny-transcript.doc Printz teens: mock-printz-teens.doc author Barry Lyga: fanboy-transcript.doc and publisher and editor Lulu Hoobinoo: lulus-writing-workshop-020208.rtf
photos
machinima (thank you Majenna!)
Blog posts:
Daniel’s review
Barry Lyga’s venture into TSL
Chicago Public Schools
Media Coverage
School Library Journal
Publishers Weekly (in the ‘mark your calendar) section
Heller Reports/QED News Alerts (need to log in to view)
Multimedia and Internet @ Schools
Metaverse Messenger (p.30-31 brief mention)
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