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One Minute for Peace: A Bigger Piece for Peace (video)

Posted on November 14, 2009 by

Here’s a one minute video entitled “A Bigger Piece for Peace” conceived, written and filmed by young people at the Brooklyn Quaker Meeting.  I did the editing / post-production of this little video, which will be submitted to the “Bridge Film Festival,” sponsored by the Brooklyn Friends School. The short video has got a great…

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Why America’s youth need affordable broadband internet access

Posted on August 19, 2009 by

The FCC has created a website using IdeaScale to solicit ideas and opinions on the importance of broadband internet on education in America.  I just posted my own views entitled "All of America's Youth Deserve to Play a Part in the Digital Society." Here's a bit of what I wrote: I work at Global Kids,…

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Amnesty International’s Josh Rubenstein speaking in Second Life on Thursday

Posted on July 22, 2009 by

This Thursday, July 23, the Second Life talk show "Virtually Speaking" will be doing an entire show on the work of Amnesty International.  Starting with at 3:45pm PST, the show will feature interviews with millay Freschi, Virtual Worlds Coordinator for Amnesty International, and Josh Rubenstein, NE Regional Director of Amnesty International.  About Josh: As the…

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White House Deputy CTO Beth Noveck speaks in Second Life about wikifying government

Posted on July 20, 2009 by

Global Kids, in association with the Markle Foundation, organized a very successful simulcast of a talk by Beth Noveck, Deputy Chief Technology Officer in the White House, into Second Life today. The event exemplified some of what I love most about Second Life: how diverse communities across distances can collaborate, engage in rich discussions, and…

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Beth Noveck, White House Deputy CTO, talks about “Wiki Government” in Second Life on July 20th!

Posted on July 16, 2009 by

Please join a Second Life simulcast, from the Markle Foundation, of Beth Simone Noveck, now the deputy Chief Technology Officer at the White House responsible for Open Government, presenting her new book, WIKI GOVERNMENT: How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A, in…

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Draxtor’s report on Obama’s speech in Ghana streamed into Second Life

Posted on July 15, 2009 by

Here's another great machinima report by citizen journalist Draxtor Despres on the simulcast of President Obama's speech in Ghana last Saturday into Second Life.  This is a much better report than my own raw footage of the simulcast I posted a few days ago.  Drax does a great job contextualizing the larger political and societal…

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Virtual premiere of “A Soldier’s Peace” in Second Life today at 8pm EST

Posted on July 11, 2009 by

I just got word that Netroots Nation  and Virtually Speaking are hosting this evening the virtual premiere of A Soldier's Peace, the inspiring documentary about Iraq veteran Marshall Thompson's peace walk across the state of Utah.  The premiere will happen today, Saturday July 11, at 5pm PST / 8pm EST. Following the film, Daily Kos's…

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Simulcast of Barack Obama speech in Ghana into Second Life and Metaplace! (video)

Posted on July 11, 2009 by

This morning, President Barack Obama gave an address in Accra, Ghana, which was simulcast into both the virtual worlds of Metaplace and Second Life.  I, like many other virtual world explorers, logged into both Metaplace and Second Life, as well as posting to Twitter, adding pictures to our Flickr photostreams and taking machinima video of…

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Obama’s Address in Ghana Tomorrow: Participate via Twitter, Second Life or Metaplace!

Posted on July 10, 2009 by

Tomorrow, Saturday July 11th, starting at 8am EST, President Barack Obama will be giving a historic address from Ghana.  For the first time in a US presidential address, you can participate in a global conversation with other people from around the world using SMS text messaging, Twitter (using the hashtag "obamaghana"), and from with the…

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Need examples of poetry about political and social change

Posted on February 13, 2009 by

On Monday I am helping lead a workshop on "Global Arts for Social Change" with fifty-some Global Kids youth at a retreat in upstate New York. (See the full video I prepared for this here.) We've got a great bunch of kids, so I'm expecting some awesome dancing, street art, spoken word, drumming and other…

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