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Pop Culture on Parade: JibJab’s Hilarious Manic Media Montage

January 2, 2010 by Amy Jussel 2 Comments

Jan.2, 2010 My head is still spinning (no, not from ‘The Hangover’ post)... My brain is simply trying to catch up with my eyeballs in this frenetic musical media montage which salutes the past year in PG-13ish ‘Where’s Waldo-style.’ Reminiscent of Dan Meth’s ‘Internet People’ viral video from awhile back (Dan has several new mashups beyond the stoic squirrel, spoofing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Product Placement, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: 2009, 2010, branding, buzz, cartoons, childhood, College Humor, Dan Meth, Digital, ecards, Elf Yourself, flash mobs, Frederator, Free Range Studios, Glee, Happy New Year, humor, internet people, JibJab, Kids, laughs, New Year videos, Obamicon, OfficeMax, online to offline, parody, political parody, satire, sendables, Shepard Fairey, social commentary, social-media, spoofs, stoic squirrel, teens, This land is your land, Toys, trends, Viral Blog, Viral Videos, virtual snowball fights, youth

USC Media Student Bryn Kressin & Packaging Boyhood Book Winners!

January 1, 2010 by Amy Jussel 2 Comments

Jan.1, 2010 Happy New Year! This joyous photo of youthful exuberance is Bryn Kressin, at left; one of our Shaping Youth winners of yesterday’s Packaging Boyhood book drawing where we pulled names from those who commented or tweeted about our weekly posts about boys, manhood and media messages impacting the males we love. The other two winners were author/educator Dr. Liz … [Read more...]

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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...]