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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 Global Kids and funding by RWJF all teaming up to offer seed money to visionary young people anxious to bring positive change to the health of their community! Nothing 'virtual' … [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

Spider-Man 3: Web of Influence In Kid-Culture

May 7, 2007 by Amy Jussel 3 Comments

There are plenty of spins on the Spider-Man 3 record-breaking $382 million worldwide “priciest movie ever made" buzz...so I’m going to take a deconstructionist view about summer box office biggies, and look at the impact of media hype-fests on kids. Not pickin’ on Spidey, here; haven’t even seen the flick yet, I’m talking about a global web … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, Product Placement, Shaping Youth, Vapid Values Tagged With: buzz-marketing, kids-advertising-regulations, kids-fitness, kids-food-products, media-literacy, new-CARU-guidelines, Nutrition & Wellness, packaging, peer-to-peer, Product Placement, Shaping Youth, ShapingYouth, viral-marketing

Youth Culture Clash: When Parody Strikes & Adults Freeze

May 1, 2007 by Amy Jussel 2 Comments

Keeping my finger on ‘whassup’ in youth culture can lead to ‘life’s most embarrassing moments’ in a keystroke. Case in point? I stay apprised with what’s circulating the net using a handy tool called Top Viral Videos to see what’s clicking through with 6 million viewers and such. Einstein, the amazing talking bird and sweet otters … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Growing up too soon, Media Literacy, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Vapid Values, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: buzz, Daughters, girls, girls-self-worth, media-literacy, peer-to-peer, preteen-self-esteem, self-esteem, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, ShapingYouth, viral

7 clues to a New Year’s riddle for the 7th year of 2000

January 1, 2007 by Amy Jussel Leave a Comment

This landed in my e-mail from some pals of mine, and it seems worthy to toss out there to get kids thinking along these lines and open up some dialogue. Yes, I’m being ambiguous on purpose so I won’t spoil the fun. To challenge yourself, write down your guess after reading each clue; then, after reading all the clues, see which (if any) of your guesses is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Branding & Consumerism, Counter-marketing, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Dads-&-Daughters, Daughters, Dove, girls, girls-self-worth, GoGirlGo, kids-fitness, media-literacy, peer-to-peer, preteen-health, preteen-self-esteem, preteens, self-esteem, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, ShapingYouth