Feliz Navidad! I know, I keep saying “mañana, mañana, amigos,” now that I'm back in the country. I’ll be writing only sporadically throughout the holiday season as kids need the gift of TIME and presence more than any wrappable item and I’d be blowing smoke if I didn’t walk the walk on the homefront. Be therefore advised that my … [Read more...]
Using New Media to Help Kids Revive Their Cultural Heritage
Filed Under: EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: 7th street jazz, ancient symbols, beading, beads, blues and jazz, celebrity designer jewelry, Centro Cultural Huichol, Cultural Survival and Traditional Arts, environmentally sustainable, extinction, fair trade, Galeria Tanana, healing, Holamun2, holistic health, Huichol, Huichol art, Huichol Center, Huichol shamans, humanity, indigenous culture, Institute for the Future, Jalisco, Latin American studies, media impact, Mexico, native Americans, petroglyphs, peyote, plant knowledge, pre-Columbian, remote villages, Riviera Nayarit, safeguarding indigenous cultures, Sayulita, scenario forecasting, shaman, Sierra Madre, simulations, soy milk, spiritual, Susana Eger Valadez, Susana Valadez, The Huichol Center, Tribes, turtle preservation, Uto-Aztecan language, Wixarica
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