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In July 2008, Global Kids, the Field Museum and the Biodiversity Synthesis Center collaborated on an innovative project to teach kids in Chicago and New York about paleontology, scientific field research, and Tanzania culture using the virtual world of Teen Second Life. For more information, contact shawna-at-globalkids .org.
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Henry Jenkins presented at a joint talk/dance party on Global Kids Island in Tee Henry Jenkins presented at a joint talk/dance party on Global Kids Island in Teen Second Life as part of GK's UNICEF A World Fit For Children Festival. More at HolyMeatballs.org.
On Oct 10 2008, Global Kids youth leaders went on a voter registration drive in Union Square in New York City, on the last day people can mail in their registration.
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Global Kids presents excerpts from Ping Chong's Undesirable Elements at the Global Kids Annual Youth Conference, Baruch College, New York City, April 2008
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On June 4th, 2008, NY1 did an excellent piece on the 5th annual Games For Change Festival. Global Kids is never mentioned two of the Global Kids Youth Leaders, one staff member, and our latest game - Hurricane Katrina: Tempest in Crescent City - appears twice!
More at p4k.globalkids.org
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L'uso di Second Life nell'educazione: Convegno internazionale di Globalkids.
Anche l'Unicef si è fatta promotrice di esperienze virtuali.
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This is Barry's videolog - from NY to LA - asking everyone he met what they associated with the phrase "virtual worlds."
To learn more about his event, go to: http://www.holymeatb alls.org/2007/11/con f_coverage_of_the_wh at_are.html
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In the summer of 2007, teens from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC worked with Global Kids to create Witnessing History: The Night of Broken Glass, an exhibit in the virtual world of Second Life , an interactive experience that puts participants in the role of a reporter during Kristallnacht.
VVP teens practicing their self introductions at a diner, just an hour before they speak on a panel at the Machinima Festival, Eyebeam Center, New York. November 1, 2008
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This is a 3 minute video highlighting the dancing to wizardrock from the April, 2008 visit by professor Henry Jenkins to the Global Kids Estate on Teen Second Life to discuss the social and political implications of Henry Potter Fandom.
For the full 50 minute video, please go here: http://youtube.com/w atch?v=sV7741jTOHc
The song, Wizard Rock Twist, is performed by The Remus Lupins.
Teens in the Virtual Video Project shares about their experience working and filming in Second Life at the Machinima Festival, held at the Eyebeam Center in New York. November 1, 2008.
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu spoke at The National Service Learning Conference held in Minneapolis from April 9-12th, 2008. The NSLC is the largest gathering of youths and practitioners involved in the service-learning movement. Global Kids streamed the event live into various virtual worlds