Interactive Games

Free Media Finds That Are Priceless Year-Round

December 16, 2009 by Amy Jussel 6 Comments

Dec. 16, 2009 Got gifts? Not sure when we jumped from “Black Friday/Cyber Monday” to bold-type headlines of “last minute gifts!”---but I’m still holding my own on the ‘haven’t stepped in a mall’ front… So today I’m going to add a few FREE ‘last minute finds’ that are literally and figuratively priceless. To up the ante and make it tougher, I’ll remove the physical … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Counter-marketing, EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Animoto, Annie Fox, back to basics, BBC, blurb.com, championing change, charity, children, clothing swaps, DinnerTrade.com, Dizzywood, ebook, Elf-Island, food swaps, free, free gifts, freebies, freemium, Games That Give, gifts, Gilmore Girls, girls, Glee, holiday help, holidays, Inspire Foundation, inspiring, iphone apps, kids-media, Koka Sexton, Lala, LastFm, lulu.com, meaningful media, Middle School Confidential, MIT, Norad, Packaging-Boyhood, playlist.com, project playlist, Santa, SmartyCard, Storybird, swap-n-shop, Teen Survival Guide to Dating & Relating, teens, The Perfect Gift for a Man, UGC, unknown free things, Virtual-Worlds, Wiglington and Wenks, Wonder Rotunda, wordle, Worldshapers, Xeko, Yelp, youth

CounterMarketing Consumption Cues: Think Geek Gifting Fun

December 15, 2009 by Amy Jussel 5 Comments

Update: Dec. 21, 2014 Adding a few more fun finds of DIY holiday hack geekery to keep it simple, and am strongly considering ordering my first RaspberryPi credit card sized computer to inspire some collegiate builders...along with MIT's Scratch coding for kids. (my original post on the new launch of ScratchJr.org and uses for making STEM kid-friendly fun is here) Dec. 15, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Consumerism, Counter-marketing, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Berenstain Bears, chemistry, children, colorflame, consumption, Dippin Dots, DIY, drum set, e-learning, eviltron, geek chic, geeky, gift of time, gifts, Gilmour Girls, holidays, how to color fire, Kids, LED, LED light graffiti, less is more, meh, owl pellets, phyto, play, Science, She's geeky, smart, sour candy science, spitballs, Steve Spangler Science, subversive humor, t-shirts, tech, teens in tech, tees, thinkgeek, totally irresponsible science, Toys, wiener whistle, WiFi

Meaningful Manga: Graphic Novels and Growth

December 13, 2009 by Amy Jussel 15 Comments

Update: May 21, 2014 Our friends at Reach and Teach have added another clever manga style illustrated book called "A is for Action" which merits an update! I love the seeding of social change in a fun fresh manner. The A is for Action book and HelpTakeAction.com website are a result of a teacher-initiated action research project published in the IB Journal of Teaching Practice: … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Consumerism, EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: Abby Denson, affordable gifts, Anime, cartoons, charitable giving, children, civility, comic books, Comic Con, Craig Wiesner, Derrick Kikuchi, education, Elf-Island, empowering teens, engaging youth, Gandhi, gay rights, gifting, gifts, girls are not chicks, giving, graphic novels, Great Figures in History, history, human rights, inspiration, Japanese manga, kid lit, literature, making a difference, Manga, manga makeover, Me to We, meaningful media, media that matters, mindfulness, Mohandas Gandhi, Nancy-Drew, Nelson Mandela, New-Moon-Girl-Media, oppression, peace, philanthropy, reach and teach, shounen-ai manga, social justice, teachable moments, teaching tools, Tough Love, transform the world, Virtual-Worlds, Xeko

Turning Boys Into Monsters: Energy Drink Leaves A Foul Taste (Again)

December 8, 2009 by Amy Jussel 26 Comments

Dec. 8, 2009 It’s Tuesday, time for our weekly “Packaging Boyhood” focus, so what better time than the holiday season to sound the 'red' siren on the 'green' brand that tween and teen boys are sucking up to...Monster energy drink. With everything from motocross and macho madness to the thumping, screaming, ‘over the top’ rebel yell, Monster ‘packs a vicious punch’ by … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Damaging Drek, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Misogyny & Racism, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, Product Placement, Sexualization & Body Image, Stereotypes & Diversity, Vapid Values Tagged With: alcohol, alcopops, behavior, BJ-Fogg, boys, Burger King, caffeine, Camel Orbs, cardiac, childrens health, cocktail, energy fiend, energy shots, energy-drinks, jolt and crash, kids nutrition, Lyn Mikel-Brown, macho, manhood, Mark Tappan, market confusion, marketing, masculinity, monster, monster hitman, objectification, Packaging-Boyhood, Packaging-Girlhood, paid to party, persuasion, pink cigarettes, preteen-health, Red Bull, RockStar, Sharon Lamb, shooters, sodium, squarebutts, sugary sodas, taurine, teens, thinspiration, toxic cues, toxic cues to kids, violence, wellness, Xtreme

CyberBullying Tragedies and Internet Safety: eModeration Part3

December 3, 2009 by Amy Jussel 13 Comments

Dec. 3, 2009 Just visited the excellent Connect Safely forum to pose the industry question, is there ANYthing that digital moderators or online advocates could’ve done in the child safety realm to prevent the loss of 13-year old Hope Witsell due to the suicide/sexting case? Obviously, Hope's case (visual at left/MSNBC) was on mobile phones, but cyberbullying/bodysnarking and … [Read more...]