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Photography

March 7, 2022 by Karen Jensen, MLS

App Review: Pxture – Creating text using photos

Teen librarian Karen Jensen reviews a new photo app that allows you to quickly add text to photos for social media, including filling a text with photo

January 23, 2022 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Tech and MakerSpace Review: Instax Wide Instant Photo Printer

Teen Librarian Karen Jensen is talking photo printers in libraries again, this type reviewing the new Instax Wide printer with the QR code feature.

June 7, 2021 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Tech Tip: A Quick and Easy Way to Make 1.25 Buttons

Teen Librarian Karen Jensen shares a quick and easy way to make personal photo buttons on the 1.25 button maker

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September 9, 2020 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Inspire tweens and teens to get creative by making and photographing hand puppets

Embracing Content Creation Queries – Guest post by Lynette Pitrak

November 14, 2016 by Heather Booth

“I want to design a Gandalf figure to print on the 3D printer.” “How do I insert text over my video in iMovie?” “I want to take pictures of the fall leaves on the trees in my neighborhood… but it’s really cloudy today.” I’m paraphrasing here, but all three of the above are questions I’ve […]

TPIB: Photo Shrink Jewelry Charms

September 13, 2016 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Although we have some permanent stations set up in our Teen MakerSpace at The Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County, we also occasionally rotate in some different stations to make sure our teens have a variety of activities to engage in. One of our permanent stations includes a bank of iPads which we […]

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TPIB: Photo Word Bookmarks (Or Instagram Photo Booth Strip Looking Bookmarks)

August 31, 2016 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Sometimes I learn about stuff at the library and go home and do it with my kids, but sometimes I do something at home and it turns out to be a great library/Teen MakerSpace activity. The Teen recently turned 14 and she wanted to have a taco birthday. It was very important to me that […]

View from Behind the Lens: It’s a Wrap! a guest post by Lynette Pitrak

March 24, 2016 by Heather Booth

My previous post detailed the first half of View from Behind the Lens, an eight-week advanced photography workshop for middle school and high school students.  In the first few weeks of class, Downers Grove-based instructor Mike Taylor and I worked on teaching the students camera basics, various types of photography shoots, and working with both […]

How Did You Do That? Photo Apps Version

December 24, 2015 by Karen Jensen, MLS

I get a lot of email where people ask how I created such and such of a graphic. Today, I thought I would share some of my favorite tips, tricks, and filters. A decent portion of my current teen programming involves teaching teens how to do fun photo tricks and then to translate that into […]

View from Behind the Lens: Advanced Photography for Teens, a Guest Post by Lynette Pitrak

December 17, 2015 by Heather Booth

In the fall and winter of 2014, I had an amazing experience coordinating a filmmaking workshop for high school students called View from the Director’s Chair.  To highlight a different aspect of our library’s Media Lab this year, our IT Department Manager and I created a similarly-structured workshop called View from Behind the Lens. View […]

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