Just a reminder that tomorrow, July 1st, fifteen New York City public high school students will premiere their film Discovered –a digital "machinima" film produced in Second Life that explores the powerful issue of child sex trafficking through the fictional story of one Mexican teenager. Discovered is the final product of a year-long, intensive digital…
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Teens show off their digital media chops at first NYC Youth Tech Fest at New School
Congrats to the 100-some teens from all over New York City who participated in the first NYC Youth Digital Media & Technology Festival at the New School. The daylong festival spotlighted the growing movement among teenagers in New York and nationally to design video games, films and other digital tools to advance social causes in…
(o.o): First Annual NYC Digital Youth Media & Tech Fest this Saturday (June 27) at New School!
I'm excited to announce that this Saturday, my group Global Kids is participating in the First Annual NYC Digital Youth Media & Technology Festival taking place on June 27 at the New School in NYC. The daylong festival will spotlight the growing movement among teenagers in New York and nationally to design video games, films…
Global Kids Youth Leaders Premiere “Discovered” Machinima on July 1 in NYC
On July 1, 2009, 15 New York City public high school students will premiere their film Discovered –a digital "machinima" film produced in Second Life that explores the powerful issue of child sex trafficking through the fictional story of one Mexican teenager. Discovered is the final product of a year-long, intensive digital filmmaking program called…
Final stages of “Discovered” — serious machinima film on child sex trafficking
We are in the final stages of post-production for "Discovered," the serious issue machinima created by the youth filmmakers in our "Virtual Video Project" at Global Kids. The difficult subject our youth have chosen is child sex trafficking, and they did an amazing job crafting a short film from the issue. I'm really impressed with…
Global Kids teen Sabienne featured in NY Daily News!
The New York Daily News has a sweet article about five New York teens who beat the odds by graduating. The story features Global Kids teen leader Sabienne Brutus! In 2005, the High School for Global Citizenship student and her siblings moved to Crown Heights from Haiti to escape the country’s political instability and to…
Machinima tour of MacArthur Island led by Mac President Fanton! (video)
For those of you not in Second Life, here is a lovely video tour of the new MacArthur Island sim led by the avatar of MacArthur Foundation president Jonathan Fanton. I love the production values of this machinima, and how it encapsulates in seven minutes the broad range of projects being supported by the MacArthur…
Video archive of Cory Ondrejka & Jonathan Fanton discussion now online
For those that were not able to catch the virtual conversation with Second Life co-founder Cory Ondrejka and MacArthur President Jonathan Fanton yesterday, the video archive is now up. Our friends at Treet.tv (formerly known as SLCN.tv) have released in record time the machinima video of the launch of MacArthur Island that happened yesterday in…
MacArthur Island launch a success!
Today was a good day. I was the event producer for the successful public launch of MacArthur Island in Second Life, featuring a conversation between the avatars of Jonathan Fanton, President of the MacArthur Foundation, and Cory Ondrejka, co-founder of Second Life now at EMI. Over 150 avatars, plus another 20-some viewers of the live…
Helping “digital immigrants” see Web 2.0 as an asset for youth
Technology Trends: a Look at the Future View more presentations from Global Kids. Last month, my colleague Amira and I had the opportunity to speak to several coordinators of Neighborhood Network sites around the country. Neighborhood Networks are onsite, multiservice technology centers aimed at promoting self-sufficiency for residents of assisted housing. Giving this talk was…