Interactive Games

Treat Suneet By Voting for Dream Village TODAY At IdeaBlob!

October 31, 2008 by Amy Jussel 15 Comments

Crowdsourcing has become quite the ‘thang’ with ideas percolating all over the globe on how to create healthier worldviews for kids online, offline, and bridging both worlds in between! (The much anticipated Elf Island opens Tuesday in beta testing, woohoo! It's an AMAZING online to offline bridge for changemaking in the childrens' media arena, and I've been mum … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: affect change, Amy-Jussel, books with meaning, changebloggers, crowdsourcing, Digital Media Learning, Dizzywood, Dream Village, Elf-Island, Environment, gaming for good, Global Water, Hastac, Ideablob, ideas, Izzy-Neis, Kids, living books, Liz Kronenberg, MacArthur-Foundation, Michael-Carter, Play Pumps, Scott Arpajian, social conciousness, social issue games, Social Symmetry, Suneet Bahtt, Teen-Second-Life, tweens, Virtual-Worlds, water shortage, Zookazoo

Dream It. Do It. Youth Grants For Social Change in Virtual Worlds

October 30, 2008 by Amy Jussel 12 Comments

PDiddy-Puff Daddy-Diddy dude step aside, as THIS is the kind of D.I.D.I. initiative that I want to see out there!!! D.I.D.I. stands for Dream It. Do It…An Ashoka Youth Venture effort with Global Kids and funding by RWJF all teaming up to offer seed money to visionary young people anxious to bring positive change to the health of their community! Nothing 'virtual' … [Read more...]

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“Check It Out! I Got A Sponsor For My Race!” A Wellness Media Mashup

October 29, 2008 by Amy Jussel 7 Comments

Belated congratulations to our own Shaping Youth Nutrition MA, RD, and ACSM Certified Health Fitness Correspondent Rebecca Scritchfield, (yes, those letters ALL matter, as she’s worked her tail off for ‘em!) for she just ran a very personal, very applaudable self-challenge on behalf of Diabetes Research and Education. She’s inspired so many of us who have … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Product Placement, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: +3, +3 Network, Americans diabetes, bicycling, causes, charitable giving, children, CSR, cycling, diabetes, Diabetes Action Team, diabetes prevention, Diabetes Research and Education, diabetic connect, dietary intake, dlife.com, fitness, fitness challenge, fundraising, globesity, goals, GPS mobile, health, Health 2.0, I survived Hurricane Hannah, IDEO, iphone apps, Making it count, marathons, Marine Corp Marathon, Me to We, millennials, motivation, nutrition, Plus 3 Network, Plus3 Network, privacy data, race, Rebeca Boyte, Rebecca Scritchfield, rewards, Rick Sutton, runners, running, safe routes to school, social networking, social-media, sponsors, sweat equity into social currency, teens, The Tech, track, Trek, Tudiabetes, wellness, Wellness 2.0

FCC Comment Extension On Kids Product Placement ‘til Nov. 17!

October 23, 2008 by Amy Jussel 1 Comment

Your turn to sound off if you’d like to join me (and 173 other orgs and commenters at last count) to reinforce the notion that embedded advertising (product placement) does not belong in young children’s programming. Shaping Youth was one of the initial 23 orgs onboard this coalition addressing the FCC, which I've written about exhaustively many a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Product Placement, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: adelstein, advergaming, adverlab, behavioral profiling kids, brand hype, branding, CCFC, Corporate babysitter, covert ads, data-mining, digital ads.org, FCC, FCC-Integrated-Marketing-Rules, FCC-product-integration, FCC-product-placement, FCC-Product-Placement-Coalition, imedia connection, itvx, Kids, N.E. Mardsen, NOI, NPRM, PEM, Screen Actors Guild, sponsorship, stealth advertising, stealth marketing, Virtual-Worlds, WGA, Youth-Media

Kids Online UnConference: Everyone Has An Agenda, Including YOU!

October 17, 2008 by Amy Jussel 20 Comments

November 13, 2008: Be there for the Kids Online: Balancing Fun and Safety Unconference! A few years back when I heard the geek/chic term “UnConference” I immediately thought it must be a “virtual” happening instead of a fly-in to reduce one’s carbon footprint. (shows you how I roll) Then I shrugged, “maybe it’s an … [Read more...]