Global Kids's Page

Day 1 - Opening Presentation
Barry Joseph and Amira Fouad presented on the enormous growth of RezEd in its first year, highlights to look forward to in the RezEd conference, and the official launch of RezEd scheduled for the Fall of 2009.



Day 1 - Keynote Presentation
Robin Harper looks at what makes virtual worlds, particularly those supporting user generated content, ideally suited for education. In particular, Robin looks at two recent examples from Second Li… Continue

The Dream It. Do It. Initiative (D.I.D.I.) is an exciting partnership between Global Kids and Ashoka’s Youth Venture. Through January of 2009, the D.I.D.I. Initiative is supporting up to 40 teams of young people to launch ventures that benefit their communities, either within or outside the virtual world of Second Life. This initiative is open to young people and student groups in Second Life.

We would very much appreciate it if you could help us to promote this opportunity to your student g

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Original post can be found on Second Life Educators Blog here.

Um, two things, pilgrims:

The Global Kids Second Life Curriculum (three handy freely downloadable .pdf files) may be picked up at RezEd now and I’m tickled to be about to open up my copies right after I hit the “Publish” button on this post. Go get yours.

Secondly, you can be downloading those documents at the same time you… Continue

With the release of Google's new "Lively" what can we predict for online learning as virtual worlds expand and become more mainstream? And with IBM and Linden Lab's new explorations, what are community thoughts on the implications of multi-grid avatar identity will be on the educational uses of virtual worlds?

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The monthly themes to be addressed on RezEd through 2008 are as follows:

Education and Virtual Worlds: April 21-May 26
Commercial Virtual Worlds: June 2- June 23
Non-School use of Virtual Worlds (Museums, Libraries): July 7- July 28
Schools and Virtual Worlds: August 4- August 25
Assessing Outcomes in Virtual Worlds: September 1- September 29
Exploring Tools & Virtual Worlds: October 6-October 27
More on Schools: November 3- November 24

To b… Continue