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Storytelling 2.0 is all about making the storytelling experience more interactive using new ideas and technology. We use storytelling to entertain, but also to inform and explain. The webinar, Storytelling 2.0 offered by ALA, explained how digital resources and tools like websites, social media, iPads, digital cameras, computers, and more can be incorporated into traditional storytelling and programming techniques to enhance the library user’s experience. Also covered was information about storytelling basics and using storytelling as a marketing tool. This blog is an expansion on the ALA webinar Storytelling 2.0. 


Jennifer Hopwood, a member of the ALSC Children & Technology Committee, has over ten years library experience. As a youth services librarian, she has organized several entertaining and educational library programs for children and adults, and served as a guest speaker on library community partnerships. She has also contributed to several industry blogs including the ALSC Blog, No Flying No Tights: a graphic novel review website, the Florida Library Youth Program Bulletin Board, and the Gatekeepers Post, as well as her personal blog Not Quite Superhuman. She is an avid tech and web 2.0 enthusiast, serving as her library’s Social Media Administrator. Ms Hopwood has a MLIS from Florida State University and a BA in English and Education from Monmouth University. 


Please drop her a comment on one of the blog postings, email via  JHopwood80 [at] gmail.com, or on Twitter @jhopwood80


Still want more? Check out the interview with Jennifer and the fabulous author Kay Cassidy.