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...]
Young Innovators: Get Out of the Garage and Into the Marketplace!
Filed Under: Branding & Consumerism, EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: Advocates-for-youth, Alex Steed, Beth-Kanter, Cathy N. Davidson, changebloggers, Changemakers, Chris Brogan, Digital, Digital Media Learning, digital-natives, Digizens, DML, DML Competition, Grants, Hastac, Hastac Needle, Humanists, Humanitarians, Internships, Isis, MacArthur-Foundation, Media, Millenials, Millenials Changing America, NetSquared, NP Tech, participatory learning, Social citizens, Social entrepreneurs, social-media, YMR, Young Innovator Awards, Young Innovators, Youth Ideas, Youth Media Reporter, Youth Noise
150 Kids’ Virtual Worlds: 95 Live, 68 in R&D; How Many Are Worthy?
Seems everyone is in L.A. for the Virtual Worlds Expo except me right now, with e-mails and schmooze plans flinging back and forth like a gamer leader board. No, gang, I can’t make it to dinner, but yes, I DO wish someone would crosspost some of these fly-on-the-wall conversations on Utterz as I’m sure key connections will transpire and I want to track anyone … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, Shaping Youth Tagged With: 150 virtual kids worlds, Avatars, Barbie World, BarbieGirl, Barry-Joseph, children, DDR, Denise Tayloe, Digital Media Learning Competition, Dizzywood, DML, Elf-Island, Game-Cheats, Gamine-Expedition, Gigglebubble media, Global Kids, Hastac, Holy Meatballs, informal-learning, Izzy-Neis, Joi Podgorny, Kids, Kids Online, Kids-Virtual-worlds, Living Folklore, MacArthur-Foundation, Me2, Me2 Universe, Michael-Carter, P4K, Pink Think, Playing for Keeps, Ruckus Nation, Safety and Fun, Sara-Grimes, Scott Arpajian, Second-Life, serious-games, simulations, SL, teen, Teen-Second-Life, Tempest in Crescent City, The Escapist, tween, Unconference, Virtual Ability, Virtual Gaming in Schools, Virtual Worlds Expo, VW, Wii Fit, Wii Healthy, Wii Sport, Willow Chillow, Young Innovator Awards, youth, Zookazoo