Global Kids' Digital Media Initiative

Attention teachers, educators, and students!

After a successful conclusion of the after-school Virtual Video Project program last year, Global Kids will work with 20 students at the Center for Global Youth Leadership, Manhattan during the 2007-2008 school year, to continue to assist teens interested in understanding the role of digital media in their lives and creating socially-conscious films. Students will have the unique opportunity to learn a variety of skills that will empower them to become critical thinkers, media producers, and global citizens. Participants will create their own virtual films called "machinima" in a supervised, teen-only area of Second Life (www.secondlife.com), a three-dimensional, interactive, animated online community. Students will examine important social issues and create their own animated films about them. Working with recognized experts and leaders in the field of online virtual environments, students will participate in digital culture in a hands-on, thoughtful way. At the conclusion of the year-long program, students will distribute their films on the Internet, showcase them at a museum film festival, submit them to youth-media festivals and organizations, and screen them at their schools.

The program will take place at the Center for Global Youth Leadership, located inside the Global Kids office, every Tuesday and Thursday from 4:30-6:00PM, beginning Thursday, November 1st, 2007. Participants will be awarded a stipend upon successful completion of the program.

To apply for the program:
Download an application below. Applications are due by Friday, October 16th. Space is limited!

For more information, contact Tabitha Tsai at 212-226-0130 extension 123, or email Tabitha at globalkids dot org

Virtual Video Project 2007-08 Flyer

Virtual Video Project 2007-08 Application