Wellness 2.0

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

“Check It Out! I Got A Sponsor For My Race!” A Wellness Media Mashup

October 29, 2008 by Amy Jussel 7 Comments

Belated congratulations to our own Shaping Youth Nutrition MA, RD, and ACSM Certified Health Fitness Correspondent Rebecca Scritchfield, (yes, those letters ALL matter, as she’s worked her tail … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Product Placement, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: +3, +3 Network, Americans diabetes, bicycling, causes, charitable giving, children, CSR, cycling, diabetes, Diabetes Action Team, diabetes prevention, Diabetes Research and Education, diabetic connect, dietary intake, dlife.com, fitness, fitness challenge, fundraising, globesity, goals, GPS mobile, health, Health 2.0, I survived Hurricane Hannah, IDEO, iphone apps, Making it count, marathons, Marine Corp Marathon, Me to We, millennials, motivation, nutrition, Plus 3 Network, Plus3 Network, privacy data, race, Rebeca Boyte, Rebecca Scritchfield, rewards, Rick Sutton, runners, running, safe routes to school, social networking, social-media, sponsors, sweat equity into social currency, teens, The Tech, track, Trek, Tudiabetes, wellness, Wellness 2.0