Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Creativity is Contagious

I'm a Teen Services Specialist at a the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library and one of my duties is to plan engaging programs for 12-18 year olds. It can be frustrating at times- like planning a program and having nobody show up, or feeling like everything cool costs too much money. A lot of teens don't show a lot of enthusiasm for library programs and their surly attitudes can be discouraging.

This is where technology comes in. The internet is a wonderful place to look for inspiration and support from other librarians and tools like blogs make collaboration easy. Seeing the creative ideas of others seems to ignite my own creativity.

The thing that made me go wow today is this amazing video by the band OK Go. Maybe a teen program about making music videos is in the future?



OK Go - WTF? from OK Go on Vimeo.

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3 comments:

  1. MarlanaJanuary 12, 2010 at 1:58 PM

    There's just this thing about ya - You're so respectable! Cool!

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  2. edhJanuary 12, 2010 at 8:33 PM

    I think a video shoot would be very cool! And you don't have to have a budget to do it: check out this sweded version of Bad Romance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEpj9w1yz64

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  3. LenaJanuary 14, 2010 at 7:03 AM

    Thanks, Marlana!

    edh, that video is amazing! I love the part where they crawl out from underneath the laundry baskets. Thanks for the link!

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