Untangle & Listen My Story of Discovery

Patricia Post, Central Minnesota Libraries Exchange (CMLE)

This session is deemed “green”

Do you want to be any part of this problem? I don’t!

It’s a plug and play world...

What if we use new technologies to power old technologies?

What if we don’t stress out about wiring things together? What if….

Like what about hooking an I-Touch to a Rotary Phone

Get Connected!

Clarification This is not a best practice…

Get Wired!

Experiment!

Do you have any of these lying around?

Do you have a 1970’s stereo system lounging around?

Garage Animal

Do you own one of these MP3’s? Others?

AuxiliaryPort

Have you noticed an “aux port” on old equipment?

Or, “line in”…that works too!

Best $8 you’ll ever spend…

$20 Sansa MP3 tethered to an old boom box

Power up that lounging Garage Animal

1/8” Stereo/Audio Red-White Cable

$49 Sansa Clip (8GB) powering 70’s Stereo Holds 4,000 Songs

$7 to $10 investment at Radio Shack

1/8” Stereo/Audio Red-White Cable

Sansa Clip Connected to Home Theater System. Surround Sound!

My New BFF

Altec Lansing iM600

Features of my BFF

•  Powerful – Best in its class

•  Beautiful sound, (still not 70’s stereo)

•  Portable, stores flat

•  Any MP3 works on it (buy that cable)

•  FM radio

•  Rechargeable battery (5 hrs of play)

•  Wireless remote

Host a Bring Your Own Music (BYOM) Event

• Home • Lake • Library • School • Any teen events

Free people from their ear buds!

Make listening social,

Don’t be too quick to discard the old,

Re-use what you already have…

The End