Global Kids's Page

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.

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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

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One component of RezEd is to make accessible and practical the experiences being shared by many members of this growing community and connect it with practitioners in the field to inform their work.
We would like to invite you to contribute a best practice piece on your respective programs and methodology. The best practice form that we have created is short, but designed to ask you to explore the experience that you've had that has proven to reliably lead to a desired result in your work.
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