blogs

Having left summer camp to return home, the girls from bunk 3C use a blog to keep one another informed of their struggles adjusting to 6th grade at their respective schools and to new situations at home.

The girls from Camp Lakeview keep in touch through a blog as Priya deals with a science fair project, Alyssa fights for the chance to be featured in an arts magazine, Val vies for a spot in a dance recital, and a Tori attracts the attention of the son of one of her father's clients.

Genesis Bell's blog tells the true story of the unbelievable events that caused the breakup of her friendship with her two best friends.

Sixth-grader Sofia Becker writes a blog about everything she overhears in the girls' bathroom, especially mean things about the super-popular Mia, but comes to realize that gossip has consequences and popularity is hard to achieve.

Libby Fawcett figures her life can't get much worse after she lights her hair on fire in front of her entire chemistry class, including Seth, the boy she's had a secret crush on for years, until her mother announces she is dating the father of Libby's arch-enemy, who plays a nasty trick on Libby that makes her the laughing stock of the whole school.

Still corresponding through her blog with her friends who live across the country, thirteen-year-old Raisin records her hopes and worries as she tries to obtain her first kiss from the long-lashed and cinnamon-scented CJ Mullen.

In a weblog she sends to her best friends back in Berkeley, seventh-grader Raisin Rodriguez chronicles her successes and her more frequent humiliating failures as she attempts to make friends at her new Philadelphia school.

Seventh-grader Erin Swift writes about her friends and classmates in her private blog, but when it accidentally gets posted on the school Intranet site, she learns some important lessons about friendship.

A guide for libraries and librarians that discusses popular social software technologies--blogs, RSS, wikis, social networking, screencasting, photo-sharing, podcasting, instant messaging, gaming, and more--and provides examples and interviews to explain the impact of each technology.

Step-by-step instructions help teens create personal web pages and blogs, with tips on how to design and update a unique, creative web site while protecting themselves and their identities from online hackers and predators.