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Spring Break Sanctuary: Away From Digital Dramas, Peer Reality Shows

April 13, 2010 by Amy Jussel 14 Comments

Mar. 25, 2016 Just back from a 'spring break' social media hiatus reprising our unplugged trip to Catalina Island, albeit only day tripping vs a leisurely week away, as we tried to 'recreate' and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Always-on, Anne Collier, Catalina, cellphone, digital citizenship, digital dramas, Facebook, free range kids, Generation-Digital, Get 'Em Outside, Get out of your own life, internet-safety, KGOY, Kids, kids want to be kids, life balance, Media, Media management, Media Unplugged, media-literacy, military brats, mobile, My Vetwork, nature deficit, Nature Rocks, NetFamily-News, Outdoor Education, peer influence, reality shows, reconnecting, social networking, social norms, social-media, spring break, teen drama, tethered, texting, The Young and the Digital, totally wired, trauma, Unplug Your Kids, unplugged, vacation, worlds collide, youth

MyVetwork: Connecting The Digital Dots For Veterans Globally

November 11, 2009 by Amy Jussel 9 Comments

Nov. 11, 2009 With the outpouring of sadness regarding Fort Hood, the scary statistics surfacing on PTSD and women soliders under 'friendly fire' from missles of a different kind, and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: Afghanistan, aid, Air Force, Amy-Jussel, armed forces, Army, assistance, brats our journey home, combat, deployed, depression, Desert Storm, Digital, Fort Hood, Freedom, healing, help, infantry, liberty, Marines, military, military brats, My Vetwork, MyVetwork, Navy, navy juniors, outreach, peace, post traumatic stress disorder, PTSD, rape, servicemen, social network, social-media, soldiers, terrorism, the theater, therapeutic, trauma, TriCare for Life, troops, U.S. Veterans, unknown soldier, VA Hospitals, Veteran statistics, veterans, Veterans Day, veterans resources, Vietnam, Virtual Iraq, Virtual-Worlds, war, women soldiers, Yale study, yellow ribbon

Virtual Reality Meets Health2.0 For Kids Wellness & Therapy

October 9, 2009 by Amy Jussel 7 Comments

Oct. 9, 2009 Once upon a time in my former life as a creative director and copywriter, I was asked to create a compelling headline for a learning simulation where young Stanford law students could … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Belinda Lange, children, creative technologies, disorders, education, Exposure therapy, Gaming For Health, healing, health, Health 2.0, intervention, Isis, Kids, learning, mental health, mobile, pain distraction, post traumatic stress, psychoanalysis, psychology, PTSD, rape crisis, recovery, rehabilitation, scent machines, sex ed, SexInfo, SexTech, simulations, STD-prevention, stress, teens, therapeutic benefit, therapy, train the trainer, training sims, trauma, USC, USC Institute for Creative Technologies, video games, violence, Virtual Afghanistan, Virtual Iraq, virtual patients, Virtual Reality, Virtual-Worlds, VRT, war, youth, youth relevant, YPulse

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