Blog Archives: January 2007

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1/19/07

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Benjamin Stokes

[Reblogged] podcast on MacSeries use of Learning Times

This podcast reflects across three volumes of the MacSeries’s online discussions.  Topics include moral panics, games, and modeling safe practices.

Filed in: Games

 
 

1/18/07

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Benjamin Stokes

[Reblogged] Youth Survey Released Supporting MacArthur Series

Global Kids has released their youth survey data, including a comic.

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1/12/07

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Larry Johnson

Larry Johnson:  Who’s Listening to the Avatars?

Recent online conversations revealed a great disparity of perceptions on questions of identity, credibility, and civic engagement between those who have spent time in virtual worlds, and those who haven’t.  Is it right to reject virtual worlds as irrelevant before exploring them?

Filed in: Civic Engagement, Credibility, Identity

 
 

1/05/07

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Barry Joseph

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.

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