Competency # 8: Multimedia

I performed a Google Image search and found this interesting graph from a 2004 Gallup poll about what teens do for entertainment.

Gallup Poll (Oct.2004) on Teen Leisure Habits: TV Still On Top accessed via
http://www.frankwbaker.com/media_use.htm Nov 13, 2007.

The Copyright statement is at the bottom of their homepage:

Media Literacy Clearinghouse makes available some copyrighted material. We understand our use of any such copyrighted material to constitute a "fair use" as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law.


So to help counteract the large weight TV and Internet have in Teens lives and encourage teens to read YALSA has created Teen Read Week with the slogan "Read for the Fun of It"

Image found with a Google.com image search and accessed through YALSA www.ala.org/yalsa

http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/teenreading/trw/trw2007/publicity.cfm#logo

The copyright statement is under the logos here:

The use of the Teen Read Week logo and/or any other trademarked material related to Teen Read Week(TM), is limited to school and public libraries, or other non-profit groups, and is for non-commercial, educational purposes only