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Inspiring the i-Generation -
Web 2.0, teenagers and libraries

Wednesday 10th October 2007
Wolverhampton Science Park

Time Session
10.00-10.15  Introductions
10.15-10.45 We're The Young Generation, And We've Got Something To Say
Brian Kelly, UKOLN
10.45-11.15 Recent developments in the UK and overseas
David Pattern , University of Huddersfield
11.15-11.45 Break
11.45-12.15 Getting social and interactive – a new website for young people
Ruth Harrison, The Reading Agency
12.15-12.45
Reaching your users with Web 2.0

Peter Godwin, University of Bedfordshire
12.45-1.45 Lunch
(1.45-4.05) Parallel Session A Parallel Session B
1.45-2.10 The perils and possibilities of Web 2.0 services
Matt Machell, Evidence Base
Reader development and reading group wikis
Patricia Garrett amd Dave Percival
Portsmouth City Council
2.15-2.40 Library 2.0 in action: enabling communication, collaboration and interaction to develop communities, democracy and citizenship online
Iain Wallace, The Spoken Word, Glasgow Caledonian University
Using Web2.0 to engage with young people in libraries
Paul Mayes, University of Teesside
2.45-3.10 Spinebreakers
Jodie Mullish, Puffin Books, Livity representative & a member of the teen team
Using wikis in information literacy activities 
Jean McGuinness, University of Abertay
3.10-3.40 Break
3.40-4.05 Teenage Reading Groups that work
Kelley Townley
Using blogs in a school library
Helen Hinks, Rawmarsh Community School
4.10-5.00 The future of Web 2.0 and Library 2.0
Ian Corns, TALIS

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