[sl] How should we respond to the Virginia Tech shootings?
This is a thread for teen residents of Second Life to share their thoughts of how we can help provide spaces or activities for you to respond to the Virginia tech shootings. More information on the tragedy can be found here.
As there are many education institutions in Second Life, specifically ones from Virginia Tech, the SL educational community has rapidly responded with ideas, from creating memorials to addressing the issues of violence in schools.
If you are a teen resident, please use the comment space below to let us know if you'd like to see Global Kids do something on our islands in response. Some ideas are:
- Turn the island to night for the week.
- Hold a workshop or discussion about the issues of violence in society.
- Create a space for teens to leave monuments.
- Get copies of monuments from the main grid.
We are open to any and all ideas.
Comments
I think that a workshop/ discussion and a little place for user-generated content related to it would be fair indeed. Perhaps a collective photomontage or machinima videomontage?
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Posted by: Mariel | April 16, 2007 10:19 PM
Ok, I think anybody who can/wants to, should write cards to the victim's families. It might make them feel better ^.^
Posted by: Katie Emms | April 17, 2007 11:41 AM
Personally I found the event deeply disturbing and frightening, as I am sure many others did. I feel that the Teen Second Life community should do a variety of things. I really like the idea of a workshop on teen violence, but also maybe a decent sized plot of the Global Kids Island dedicated to the issue, where teens can place appropriate pictures, short essays, stories, letters, quotations, and items. These would be placed on a monument type statue, which would be available for anyone to copy to place on their own land. Additionally, maybe some sort of T-Shirt contest where teens create t-shirts available to the public to buy from Global Kids, and the money would go a VT charity of some sort. (Now that I think of this, maybe the memorabilia statue could also be sold (L$1) and the proceeds would go to charity. And then, maybe on of the GKids could get permission from Blue to transfer this statue/t-shirts over to the MG to be sold at the same price, just to broaden the market, and earn more money for charity.
Posted by: Jackson Widget | April 17, 2007 9:38 PM
This is very sad and should have articles in little pick up notes on the island and a video article somewhere too. you could also hold a discussion on the island to help separate the facts from the fiction.
Posted by: mboochin hax | April 18, 2007 5:22 PM