Global Kids' Online Leadership Program

Hello Everyone.

I'm going to share with you my review about my first GK Intern event.

I hosted it on Thursday, 4th of December 2008. The topic had to be Global Warming because I really do like the topic and stuff related with that. So I throught it would be cool to do something in-world about it for the TG Community to enjoy. The event was hosted at the GK Intern area on Global Kids Island, awesome place!. Before the event I managed to set up a few globes and uploaded a few pictures related to Global Warming along with additional details required for the event.

The event lasted for 1 hour and 20 minutes with many teen grid residents of the community joining in and debating about the past, present and future of Global Warming. I think in total there was around 20+ that attended the event which is great, because there was not many folks on the grid when I started. I was worried who was going to show up, but I managed to get the word out on time.

At 1:33pm SLT, the volcano went off during the event, at the abnormal weather stage. Could this be a sign or something else? lol

Here is the shedule of the Global Warming event
1pm SLT - Introduction of the Intern Event
1:10pm SLT - GK Guidelines
1:15pm SLT - Section 1: Background on Global Warming & Q&A
1:22pm SLT - Section 2: Global Warming Changes
1:30pm SLT - Section 3 - Impacts of Global Warming & Q&A
1:35pm SLT - Section 4 - The future
1:45pm SLT - Q&A
2pm SLT - Section 5 - How to make a difference
2:11pm SLT - Section 6 - How to Take Action Now
2:15pm SLT - Section 7 - Global Warming information packs & final Q&A
2:20pm SLT - The end of my event - wooot

My review

Okay, so..I managed to find and I did alot of planning for the event. As you know, I love spreading the word about events on GK, so I decided to send out Event notecards to my friends around the TG grid first. Then 8 minutes before the event started I sent out event details through all global kids groups and started group conferences, haha.

Things that worked well, was that many found it interesting on some section areas of global warming during the event. The participants brought their points across really clearly and the feedback extremely helpful and very specific. I throught people enjoyed listening to the facts and information I was sharing with them. I'm sure that people throught I was very positive and very welcoming through out the event, which is awesome.

Things that did not go so well was asking enough questions to the participants to get more views across about certain things of Global Warming. Some participants decided to drop out half through and teleport else where, so maybe I need to look into what makes teens stay longer for next time. However, I managed to get help from participants to get more people back to the event, I think that worked successfully. I was happy that people were interested still.

Areas to improve on for next time; I think I would expand the time frame out If I had to do it again, from 1hr 20mins to 2 hours to allow more time to discuss, play a game and get more teens engaged into Global Warming. My idea for next time is to use Human Barometer to see if people agree, disagree or don't know about certain statements and then they could talk about why they picked that option.

If I had to do it again, I would change a few things. I would change the time of the event to later in the day like 4pm SLT until 6pm SLT because many U.S residents are on then and more people on the grid, wooot. I also would change the event details and expand that by asking people that attend more questions about the subject. At the start I would add a fun activity section where everyone did a quick brainstorm about Global Warming and then feed back to the rest of the group, which would be great fun for all. :D

My last thoughts is that the GK Intern event went really well and everything went smoothly without many problems to worry about, hehe. I hope everyone enjoyed the event and throught it was interesting to find out new things. :)

Thanks so much for attending my event. If want a copy of the Global Warming information packs, please IM me in-world or e-mail me. :)

Daniel Voyager
TSL Resident.