Spotlight on Digital Media And Learning

RezEd Review: A Year in Learning and Virtual Worlds

To inaugurate its second year, RezEd.org is releasing the latest RezEd Review, featuring edited transcripts of 22 RezEd podcast interviews from the past year.

Virtual Worlds: Emerging Trends for 2009

MacArthur grantee Global Kids reflects on six trends in virtual worlds around learning and philanthropy.

Barry Joseph: Comparing Apples and Oranges in Virtual Worlds

Global Kids reflects on lessons learned from a massively multiworld simulcast of Kofi Annan’s receipt of the MacArthur Award for International Justice.

Barry Joseph: Planned Activities for Virtual Worlds and the Public Good

Forecasting upcoming work by Global Kids to explore the potential of virtual worlds within the non-profit, learning, and philanthropic communities

Barry Joseph: Using Virtual Worlds to Foster Activism Through Youth Media

A panelist at tomorrow’s public forum on virtual worlds and learning talks about his work with youth creating Machinima. Youth from Global kids’ after school program worked in virtual worlds to create a film about child soldiers in Uganda.

Barry Joseph: Staffing the Virtual World

Global Kids’ Director of Online Leadership asks: “How do you hire staff for a medium that most do not know even exists?”

Youth Discussion affects Second Life

A discussion started on Spotlight has resulted in policy changes by Linden Labs affecting the Teen Grid on Second Life.

Youth Discussion #2: Teens Reflect on Virtual Summer Camp

When you think of summer camp what images come to mind? Perhaps getting outdoors, leaving one’s home, physical challenges, and bugs? Well, for participants in last summer Camp Global Kids program, in the teen grid of Second Life, they might respond: flying on floating platforms, watching hippos fall from the sky, and taking action on world issues.

Youth Discussion: the Role of Adults within Online Teen Spaces

What role should adults play, or not play, within online teen spaces? Global Kids, which works with teens both in person and online, took the question to a number of teens familiar with their work within Teen Second Life (TSL).