Tech Talk for Teens
Tech books to check out at the Jasper County Public Library
Careers for computer buffs [1]
Interviews by Andrew Kaplan ; photographs by Eddward Keating and Carrie Boretz .
Interviews with fourteen people who work in careers of interest to young people who like computers, including software musician, software developer, and systems engineer.
Little Brother [2]
Cory Doctorow
After being interrogated for days by the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco, California, seventeen-year-old Marcus, released into what is now a police state, decides to use his expertise in computer hacking to set things right.
Digital technology [3]
Chris Woodford
Digital Technology examines how the digital revolution is shaping daily life in many ways: the basics of digitizing information of all kinds and spreading it around the world at the touch of a keypad, how digital-based technologies work, whether the digital revolution and the explosion in instant information will be helpful or invade our privacy and security.
Tom Clancy's net force : the ultimate escape [4]
Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik
The Net Force fights all criminal activity on-line. But a group of teen experts knows just as much about computers as their adult superiors.They are the Net Force Explorers...
The New way things work [5]
David Macaulay, with Neil Ardley.
Text and numerous detailed illustrations introduce and explain the scientific principles and workings of hundreds of machines. Includes new material about digital technology.
A Teen Tech Week Activity -- Make Your Own CD Cover!
1 - Go to "wikipedia." Hit “random” or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random [6]
The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.
2 - Search for "Random quotations" or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 [7]
The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.
3 - Go to flickr and click on “explore the last seven days” or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days [8]
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
4 - Use photoshop, the gimp, picnik or a similar program to put it all together.
5 - Print it, or post it to your MySpace or FaceBook with this text in the "caption" and TAG the friends you want to join in.
6 - Email us a copy and we'll post it on our flickr [9] site.
