Global Kids' Online Leadership Program

From August 24-26, 2007, in Chicago, Global Kids coordinated the Non-profit and Philanthropy Thread at the Third Annual Second Life Community Convention.

This serves to collect all of our posts, photos, videos, audio, and more in one location. We will be adding to it over time, so please watch this space.

GENERAL INFORMATION

• Main Schedule
  
• Speaker Bios
  

PHOTOS

• Images from the GK Best Practices in SL Education Trading Cards
  
• View all Global Kids' related photos and sets on Flickr
  
• All Flickr photos with the thread tag: slcc07gk.
  
• All Flickr photos posted to the the Second Life Community Convention pool
  

VIDEO

• MiniClips (low quality) from Day 1:
  
  

RELATED MACHINIMA TRACK MATERIAL

• View Angela's powerpoint.
  
• Angela's video demo of the first machinima demos done by the youth in her program.
  
• View Lucky's powerpoint.
  
• View Nafiza's powerpoint.
  
• All of the photos
  

RELATED BUSINESS (FUNDERS) TRACK MATERIAL

• Read the open discussion about Philanthropy in Virtual Worlds on MacArthur's Spotlight Blog
  
• Video shown by the Microsoft Corporation to demonstrate one project in Teen Second Life.
  
• Learn & Serve's PowerPoint presentation
  
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's PowerPoint presentation, part 1
  
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's PowerPoint presentation, part 2
  
• MacArthur Foundation's PowerPoint presentation, part 2
  
• All of the photos
  

RELATED SOCIAL (NON-PROFIT) TRACK MATERIAL

• UNICEF's PowerPoint presentation
  
• TechSoup's PowerPoint presentation
  
• All of the photos
  

RELATED EDUCATION TRACK MATERIAL

• The entire Best Practices For Education in Second Life document.
  
• Global Kids' slideshow on An Educational Non-profit's History of the Teen Grid: A Global Kids Adventure in Best Practices
  
• Read the text or watch the video of The Incomplete History of Education in Teen Second Life, developed for the Education Track presentation.
  
• Demographics of Education Track attendees
  
• Photos from Connie Yowell's keynote
  
• Photos from the Best Practices Using Second Life for Education workshop
  
• The SLCC 2007 Education Proceedings, at 188 pages!
  

GK STAFF & ASSOCIATES REFLECTIONS

• A summary and review of the SLCC from Global Kids Youth Intern Nafiza - "Second Life is a privilege that many of us have the opportunity of using; that is why I feel that it is necessary to use it to raise awareness about all the global issues that there are, and all those people who are being exploited—because they are the people who do not have the same privileges that we do." - along with some additional thoughts about her Machinima panel.
  
• Commentary and reflections from Barry Joseph, GK's Online Leadership Director: Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
  
• Commentary and reflections from Rik: Thinking about the Non-profit Sector at SLCC, Building the International Criminal Court, SLCC Day 1: “Second Life has the killer app, which is community”, and SLCC Day 2: So Long and Thanks for All the Swag!
  
• Commentary and reflections from Tabitha Tsai, Second Life Education Specialist, GK staff.
  
• Commentary and reflections from Meghan Deana, Youth Venture Associate, GK staff.
  
• Commentary and reflections from Mercury Metropolitan, GK remote intern.

PRESS

• [blog] The SLCC post-mortem from Education Track co-chair Daniel Livingston: "Connie Yowell of the MacArthur foundation gave an inspirational keynote, during which I was too-often distracted with trips to the tech support to try and work out how we could get connected... Barry Joseph’s interactive session for Global Kids went down very well, and really gave a boost to the attendees. Special award to Barry for managing to squeeze the event into the very small amount of time we were able to allocate to him."
  
• [video] Life4U's machinima news coverage from "SLCC 2007 in Chicago"
  
• CNET's News.com's The promise and paradox
  
• Top Tech News's Second Life Avatars Hold Real-World Convention
  
• [blog] Young Adult Library Services Associations's A Safe Place to Fail
  
• NMC Campus Oveserver's SLCC - Can We Do Better? - "Look at the great documentation done by Global Kids. Those sessions were the exceptions, as the GK folks always get us up out of the chairs, moving around, doing activities. We need more of that!... if SLCC 08 stays to the traditional conference approach, I’d rather be home in my PJs inworld..."
  
• ABC News' Second Life Gets 'Real' at Conference
  
• [blog] Out to Pasture's Post-SLCC Thoughts
  
• [blog] My Story of My "Second Life"'s Head of the Class: Global Kids Deliver!"
  
• The Young Adult Library Services Association discusses the GK Youth Leaders role in the Machinima Track and the relevance of machinima to libraries.
  
• [blog] Rikomatic's "Global Kids create 'best practices in education' Moo cards"
  
• Virtual World New's "The MacArthur Foundation's Virtual World Plans"
  
• [blog] From Lucy Bernholz's "Live and (not) in person"
  
• Thank you to all who mentioned the thread: Beth Kantor, Eliane Alhadeff, AFP Fundraising Resource Center, Chris Smith, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Blog PIoneering Ideas
  
• Press Release: 8/10/07 "Virtual World Residents To Gather In Chicago; Macarthur Foundation To Fund First-Ever Non-Profit Thread"
  
• Press Release: 7/10/07 "Global Kids to Launch a Nonprofit and Philanthropic Thread for the Second Life Community Convention"
  

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