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...]
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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
Young Innovators: Get Out of the Garage and Into the Marketplace!
Calling all social media wünderkind, changebloggers, and humanitarian twitterati and digerati of the millennial set (yes, this means you, Alex Steed) there’s ‘gold in them thar’ hills!’ (ok, that phrase comes from either a Yosemite Sam cartoon or a cowboy parody, but either way, it shows it’s in my lexicon, revealing I’m WAY too old to … [Read more...]
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The Power of a Pen, The Story of A Sign
“Sometimes all it takes is a stroke of a pen. A beautiful film by Alonso Alvarez Barreda.” This was the caption for the amazing video I received via Facebook from my NextNow collaboratory friend and founder Bill Daul...And in my overloaded chaos I might have missed it if he hadn’t added, “worth 5 minutes of your time, I promise. Trust … [Read more...]
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