[P4K] Global Kids main grid launch of Teen produced game CONSENT!
Join Global Kids this week, Wednesday, April 8, 2009, 2:00 - 4:00 PM (EST), 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM (SLT) in the Clemson Teaching Learning, (173, 212, 26) sim for the Second Life main grid opening of the game CONSENT! We will be holding tours of the game, discussing the TSL project & holding question & answer segments throughout.
IM Rhiannon Chatnoir for a teleport during the Second Life event.
CONSENT! is a first person, simulation game based on Harriet A. Washington's book "Medical Apartheid" (www.medicalapartheid.com) in which your avatar assumes the role of an African-American prisoner who has to make tough decisions about whether to choose to 'consent' and submit to medical experiments, which took place during the time period of the 1940s to the present.
The game was designed and developed by Global Kids youth leaders in the Playing 4 Keeps after school program at South Shore High School, NYC using tools in the virtual world of Teen Second Life. Additional building and scripting was also done by the teen-run TSL development company, Digital Refinery.
Find out more information on CONSENT on this blog or on Global Kids Playing 4 Keeps program site.
The Playing 4 Keeps program was made possible through the generous support of Microsoft Corporations US Partners in Learning.
Thank you to Clemson University and the generous use of the Clemson Teaching and Learning Services sim for display of CONSENT!
