We've got cartoon "diversity", stellar math role models and even math in children's TV (like pbs' Cyberchase) so where's ECO-diversity in the media and marketing machinations of kids' entertainment? As those of you who are regular readers know, this stuff is important to me. I’m quite often scrambling to keep au courant in the wide array of kids’ media popping … [Read more...]
Woohoo! Who’s in Drew’s conga line? Our Age of Conversation social media project to benefit Variety, the Children’s Charity has reached our $10,000 goal in less than 2 months time! Drew and Gavin have single-handedly united us in purpose and promise for the children, leveraging the power and perspective of social media to show us how we can merge social … [Read more...]
Update: Sept. 11, 2014 Reading CNN's "Post 9/11: Far-Reaching New World of Terror Threats and Salon's piece on 'homegrown extremists' that looks like a bad Onion satire of The Expendables movie, this solemn day of remembrance goes beyond 'troubling' knowing full well our blue marble of a world is like playing pinata with a hornet's nest.As I try to update links and … [Read more...]
There’s a clever animated send up of media moments making the rounds called “Internet People,” created by cartoonist Dan Meth (yes, that's his real name, poor guy) with music by Micah Frank (and featuring the horn section of Bruce Kapler and Al Chez from Paul Schafer's CBS Orchestra on David Letterman's Late Show). The funniest thing about Internet People … [Read more...]
When the media and marketing machine work in positive ways to trigger youth enthusiasm, it can skyrocket into a global phenom in a heartbeat. We’ve seen movements take hold and spread like wildfire using the internet as fuel. From disaster relief like ICare and Humanlink to teen blogging projects and virtual videos (Global Kids' amazing year long after-school machinima … [Read more...]
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