Marketing Shaping Youth Archives - Page 74 of 147

Holy Budget BALANCE Batman! Open Source Gotham Game

February 20, 2009 by Amy Jussel 5 Comments

Feb. 20, 2009 Carping about your local officials? Don’t like the decisions being made? Still a student and can’t vote yet? Here’s a little micro-level peek into what the feds are dealing with on the larger scale financial fiasco... Amanda Hickman, the Technical Director of the Gotham Gazette pinged the Games for Change list serve to update their prior version of “Balance!” … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Amanda Hickman, American Public Media, Balance, Budget Hero, debt, deficit, economics, fiscal fitness, fix the budget, G4C, Games for Change, gaming, Gotham Gazette, Knight Ridder, News Challenge, open source games, serious-games, social issue games

A Virtual World to Be Wild About: Elf Island Tweens Help WildAid

February 18, 2009 by Amy Jussel 18 Comments

Feb. 18, 2009 As reticent as I am to bring MORE media into kids’ lives, when I’d rather they be outside in non-electronic natural environs, I’m firmly convinced that it’s all about balance, content, values, messaging, and leveraging the power of media in positive ways. No secret that I’ve had my eye on Elf Island (fact sheet here) ever since Izzy Neis gave a heads up on this … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Counter-marketing, EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: coastal stewards, Craig Kronenberger, Dizzywood, eco heroes, Elf-Island, endangered animals, endangered species, Galapagos Islands, game wardens, games4change, gaming, gaming for good, GoodQuests, Habitat for Humanity, illegal animal trafficking, Jungaloo, Kids, Liz Kronenberger, Mirrored Gaming, PBI, Peter Knights, poachers, Polar Bear International, Shark Quest, Sharks, Sustainability, tweens, Virtual-Worlds, Wild Aid, WildAid, wildlife, Zookazoo

Turning Up the Heat: Green Teen Videos On Climate Change

February 16, 2009 by Amy Jussel 14 Comments

Feb. 16, 2009 There seems to be a slew of green teen contests kicking off this week, along with National Engineers Foundation Week, and 'Introduce a Girl to Engineering' day on Feb. 19. I love the way new media is making STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) programs more fun and participatory so kids can come together halfway around the world in the spirit … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Consumerism, EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: BrainyFlix, Dennis Hwang, dirty 30, Doodle4Google, eco contests, Eco-Childs-Play, Environment, Frontline Heat, global challenge, Green media, Green-Teens, Jay Dedman, Kids, organic, rainforests, Ryanne hodson, SAT vocab videos, STEM, Teens Turning Green, the world is flat, WGHB, What I wish for the world, youth, youth art

A Challenge: Love Yourself. Share Your Story. Find Beauty.

February 14, 2009 by Amy Jussel 6 Comments

Happy Valentine’s Day dear readers! Like my 'Luvicon?' (You can make one too!) Little did I know when I wrote about ‘thinspiration’ that there was an actual term for sidewinders and commentary that dings so deeply in the developmental recesses of kids’ minds. "Bodysnarking." Dare to share the body image stories that stuck in your childhood mental relay and lend a hand with a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: Ask Dr. Robyn Silverman, cleft repair, Dr. Robyn, Find Beauty Challenge, Girl Overboard, global medical surgeries, Justina Chen Headley, luvicon, maya angelou, North of Beautiful, open letter to phenomenal girls, readergirlz, Teen Book Review, teens, thinspiration, Valentines Day, what is beautiful, YA lit, YALSA

How Now, Green Cow?! sMOOch! Valentine’s Day e-Cause Cards

February 13, 2009 by Amy Jussel 18 Comments

Feb. 13, 2009 Other than the fact that this cute lil’ cow looks in dire need of Prozac, this “cause-marketing” green Valentine’s Day idea is uplifting, customizable, and fun/fast delivery for all you guys and gals that didn’t get MOOOOOOOving in time to send greetings to loved ones before Cupid’s arrow left the quiver! The cool lil' carbon offset e-card from TerraPass costs … [Read more...]