Global Kids' Online Leadership Program

game development program offers opportunities youth development

The UK Based Learning and Teaching focused site, Becta, recently published a best practices case study about Global Kids' Playing 4 Keeps program. Recognising that games are a form of ‘youth media’ Global Kids recognised game design can be a...

Posted by joyce on July 20, 2010 3:36 PM

[p4k] Game Theory

Computer Graphics World published an article covering AMD's Changing the Game program which included Global Kids Playing 4 Keeps Program. It highlights how video games are an ideal platform for not only youth education. A number of companies, organizations, schools,...

Posted by joyce on March 5, 2010 1:58 PM

[conf] Games in Education Conference: Warcraft in the Classroom, Hungarian Revolution and Elmo!

Thanks so much to the organizers of the Games in Education Conference for inviting me to their symposium this week.  It was a really fun and thought-provoking experience for me. My presentation on Global Kids' Playing 4 Keeps program went...

Posted by Rik on August 7, 2009 10:25 AM

[P4K] CONSENT! Successfully Launches in Second Life

On Wednesday, April 8, 2009, Global Kids' Playing 4 Keeps youth created game CONSENT! launched officially in the Clemson Teaching Learning sim within the main grid of the virtual world Second Life. The two hour event was attended by some...

Posted by joyce on April 17, 2009 11:06 AM

[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...

Posted by joyce on April 6, 2009 1:38 PM

[p4k] Author behind book behind CONSENT! sings GK's praises

Two years ago, the youth in our Playing 4 Keeps program created CONSENT!, a game about medical racism against African American male prisoners. It was based on a chapter from Harriet Washington's remarkable Medical Apartheid. We tracked her down to...

Posted by Barry on December 17, 2008 3:13 PM

[P4K] Tour of CONSENT! game in Teen Second Life

Global Kids Playing 4 Keeps teen Tashawna, part of the team who helped develop CONSENT!, takes us on a tour of the project that was created within Teen Second Life during 2006-07. She was asked to narrate it nearly...

Posted by Krista on November 18, 2008 2:17 PM

[P4K] NonProfit TImes spotlights P4K, Tempest & Ayiti games

The NonProfit Times posted a recent article by Michele Donohue entitled "Philanthropy Games By And For Kids And Donors" which spotlights our Playing 4 Keeps (P4K) program along with the release of the game Tempest in Crescent City. Read the...

Posted by joyce on October 3, 2008 9:53 AM

[staff] Program models for education in Second Life?

I've been putting together this blog post for a bit, and first asked the RezEd community to weigh in, about what the various setups you can have for education in Second Life as a way to just wrap my head...

Posted by Rafi Santo on July 29, 2008 11:59 AM

[press] The Parent's Paper spotlights virtual worlds and education

The January issue of the New Jersey magazine The Parent Paper, has an article entitled "Student's Try a Virtual World", which spotlight's both the programs Global Kids and Ramapo are running within Second Life. They quoted Barry several times regarding...

Posted by joyce on January 5, 2008 1:26 AM

[blog] Coverage of our launch of Consent!

Elaine Alhadeff of the blog Future Making Serious Games recently posted an overview of our new game Consent! which takes place entirely in Teen Second Life. Global Kids to launch CONSENT! aiming at building awareness among young people around the...

Posted by joyce on October 15, 2007 2:20 AM

CONSENT!!!! Playing it for the first time...

I just played consent on second life & it was amazing. It still has a few bugs but overall I loved it. Well mostly I loved it cause my voice was in it, the way they designed it, the very...

Posted by p4kyoshigirl on October 5, 2007 4:29 PM

[sl] Finally fixed that sound bug

All year I have been having a problem with sound in Second Life. Sometimes surrounding sound, like wind when flying, didn't come through. Other times it would not play streaming audio attached to a plot of land. This made it...

Posted by Barry on August 22, 2007 9:35 PM

[sl] The Incomplete History of Education in Teen Second Life

The following is the full text from the video produced for the SLCC 2007's Non-Profit and Philanthropy Thread's video presentation: The Incomplete History of Education in Teen Second Life Disclaimer: The following timeline was produced using content posted at the...

Posted by Barry on August 15, 2007 11:43 PM

[conf] GK at the GLS!

This morning Global Kids ran a half-hour teen panel (our second this summer) at the Games, Learning and Society Conference. Read the official panel description from the program here. The panel was composed of two Global Kids leaders -...

Posted by Barry on July 16, 2007 12:45 PM