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Dream It. Do It. Youth Grants For Social Change in Virtual Worlds

October 30, 2008 by Amy Jussel 12 Comments

PDiddy-Puff Daddy-Diddy dude step aside, as THIS is the kind of D.I.D.I. initiative that I want to see out there!!! D.I.D.I. stands for Dream It. Do It…An Ashoka Youth Venture effort with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: $1000 youth grants, A childs war, Ashoka, Avatars, Barry-Joseph, crowdsourcing, curriculum, DIDI, DIDI grants, Digital Media Learning Competition, DML, Dream it do it, Global Kids, Hastac, health, Health 2.0, HopeLab, kids collaboration, machinima, millennials, MMORPG, participatory learning, peer-to-peer, positive social change, RezEd.org, Ruckus Nation, RWJF, Scribd, Second-Life, seed funding, SL, Social entrepreneurs, Sustainability, teen health, Teen-Second-Life, teens, TSL, virtual learning, Virtual-Worlds, Wellness 2.0, youth empowerment, youth grants, Youth Ventures

Kids’ Online Ethics Part 3: Community Solidarity; Marketing Cheats

July 29, 2008 by Amy Jussel 12 Comments

At the recent Ypulse Nat'l Mashup, I chatted with teen virtual goods wünderkind Asuka Martin also interviewed here by Benett Carter about Teen Second Life. I'm fascinated by her composure in handling … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Product Placement, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: 350.org, Angela-McBride, Asuka-Martin, branding-cultures, Cheat-Codes, copybots, Dizzywood, Easter-eggs, Electronic-Arts, Ethics-virtual-worlds, Game-Cheats, Gamine-Expedition, GoodPlay-Project, in-game-marketing, informal-learning, Izzy-Neis, kids-creative-content, Kids-gaming-secret-codes, Kindly-High-School-SL, machinima, marketers-using-game-cheats, neopets, New-Life-for-Old-Soles, online-communities-kids, Radical-Trust, Recycleworks, RezEd, Sam-Gilbert, Sara-Grimes, Second-Life, Sight-Night, Step-It-Up-2007, Teen-Second-Life, Teen-virtual-worlds, Tiger-Woods-Xbox-cheat, tweens, UGC-teen-apparel, Virtual-to-real-world-play-patterns, YPulse, YPulse-Mashup-virtual-worlds, Zookazoo

Teens and Technology: Countdown to YPulse National Mashup ’08!

July 3, 2008 by Amy Jussel 8 Comments

“There are people who believe that for-profit marketing and non-profit youth media or education can’t exist in the same place. I disagree. That’s part of the reason why I call these … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: 2008-YPulse-Mashup, Adinas-Deck, Age-of-Conversation, American-Teen, Anastasia-Goodstein, Blyk, citizen-journalism, consumption, Cyberbullying, E.T., Earthseeds-Project, Erase-Hate, Fuse, Habbo, InfoBus, Internet-safety-teens, JacketFlap, Larry-Magid, machinima, mDisney, mig33, mobile-social, nonprofits, Quantum-ShiftTV, Quest2Change-Real-Life, readergirlz, RespectRx, Socialight, teens, Tiny-Pictures, tweens, Virtual-Worlds, youth-advocates, youth-marketing, YPulse-National-Mashup, YPulse-Research