July 7, 2009 If I were using my marketing hat, I could’ve headlined this post “Expose yourself, and we’ll reciprocate” or some other sexist tripe for click-through baiting in edgy innuendo/ad agency style. But...since: a.) I disdain obvious ad ploys and b.) it runs counter to our mission and all we stand for in raising the bar on media messaging, I’ll simply defer to Tracee … [Read more...]
Summer of Link Love: Reprint Rights, Yours for the Asking!
Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Amy-Jussel, bloggers, burnout, carnival, Change Bloggers, content swaps, Creative Commons, free time, incubators, jumpstart your startup, Kids, leisure, nonprofit, repurposing content, research, Summer, Summer of Link Love, TGR, The Girl Revolution, Tracee Sioux, women 2.0, youth
SmartyCard: Summer Screen Time For The Quiz Whiz
June 2, 2009 Been at Ypulse all day with updates to come, so here's part two in the SmartyCard series! Message for summer study time? Save a tree, ditch the workbooks! Without fail, every year I tossed one of those hefty 'grade level' workbooks into my Costco cart for home-study hopes...And every year I shake my head as I tear out the few used pages in order to gift it to … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Branding & Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Product Placement, Shaping Youth Tagged With: academic fundamentals, Academics, brainiacs, children, core curriculum, Cramster, Digital playground, Doing School, earn points, education, grade 3-6, learn and earn, learning, memorization, Mobile Prep, Points for goods, quizzes, rote learning, SmartyCard, Stressed Out Students, Summer, summer school, summer slide, Summer Study, teachers, virtual goods, Virtual-Worlds, Workbooks