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Appeal from Our Teens to Support Global Kids

Posted on December 20, 2010 by

  Here's some of our rockstar teen leaders urging folks to support my organization Global Kids.  Please give whatever you are able to support our teens to be community activists, successful students and future leaders in the world. Thanks! [Link: Global Kids contribute page.]

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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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Global Art for Social Change: from Banksy to Korean B-boys (video)

Posted on February 10, 2009 by

For an upcoming Global Kids retreat, I’m helping organize a workshop on “Global Arts for Social Change” with some other trainers.  As part of the session, we wanted to show our teens some examples of various forms of art related to activism and civic engagement.  So I threw together this compilation reel of different forms…

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Virtual worlds and civic engagement: Obama’s health care policy discussed in Second Life

Posted on January 10, 2009 by

Draxtor Despres's latest dispatch from the virtual world examines how people are using Second Life to speak this country's health care policy, as part of Obama's online policy dialogues. Here's organizer Siri Vita (sp?) describing why a Second Life consultation works: One of the most amazing things was how people were willing to open up…

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Year One at Global Kids Wrap-up

Posted on December 27, 2008 by

December 19, 2007 started off super-crappy but ended super-awesome. That morning, I updated my status on the micro-blog Twitter as "jobless." A few minutes later, I got a text message from Barry Joseph : “Sorry to hear the news.  Please call when u can.” Barry is a guy I had known for about a year…

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A History of the Jazz Split

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