Global Kids' Digital Media Initiative

Rafi Gkid: Have a seat guys, it's about to start!
Mk5793 Zeluco: lol....the seats still aren't scripted...
kevin Oto: they wont work
Rafi Gkid: Just need to click it from the right angle. : )
Cage Babii: what we doing
Rafi Gkid: Just hit play on your movie tab and you should be abl e t o see the st ream.
Mk5793 Zeluco: rafi...what's up with the pics to the right of the scre en? XD
Rafi Gkid: Those are the presenters tonight.
Rafi Gkid: Just hit your video tab to get the stream going.
kevin Oto: will be on youtube 2
Meghan GKid: Read the Green sign, also, for more info :)
Rafi Gkid: Welcome Mike, Kronos.
Rafi Gkid: We're watching a live panel from MIT with Henry Jenki ns, amon g ot her people.
Mk5793 Zeluco wants to see leroy jenkins XD
Mk5793 Zeluco: lol they're 2 mins late so far >.>
Rafi Gkid: It should start in just a couple of minutes.
Mike Denneny: Where is this taking place
Rafi Gkid: At MIT, which is in Cambridge Mass.
Mk5793 Zeluco: lol, noones waved at the camera so far >.>
Mk5793 Zeluco: *jeopardy song plays*
Mike Denneny: I could state several things that secondlife ha s cha nged ab out my life.
Mk5793 Zeluco: yay vidz!
Mk5793 Zeluco: omg thats SL!
Rafi Gkid: lol, yup, that was GK island
Rafi Gkid: Are you guys doing ok with loading? Can you hear it a lri ght?
Mk5793 Zeluco: I see it
kevin Oto: it see it
kevin Oto: and i hear it
Rafi Gkid: w00t sl!
Mk5793 Zeluco: w00t! SL 4 life!
Rafi Gkid: yay shout out.
kevin Oto: but not loud
Second Life: Your region will restart in 5 minutes and 0 s eco nds f or m ain tenance.
kevin Oto: omg
Mk5793 Zeluco: oh fun -_-

Second Life: Your region will restart in 1 minutes and 0 s eco nds f or m ain tenance.
kevin Oto: 1min
Mk5793 Zeluco: going down with the ship rafi?
Second Life: Your region will restart in 0 minutes and 30 sec onds for mai ntenance.
Rafi Gkid: i guess so... i tried, we'll be back up in a couple
Rafi Gkid: yup, you can watch on the web.

Rafi Gkid: do you guys have the video working?
kevin Oto: yap and yap and yap
kevin Oto: is he going to show any thijng
kevin Oto: he keeps talking
kevin Oto: why did i just foze
Rafi Gkid: well the panelists are going to get up there soon
kevin Oto: will they show second life on this
kevin Oto: or online sites
kevin Oto: or just talk
Rafi Gkid: not sure
Mk5793 Zeluco: lol they already have >.>
Rafi Gkid: you might try listening to what he's saying though. : )
Rafi Gkid: Katie wrote one of the best books on game design, if tha t's s omet hin g ya'll are interested in.
Echolon Syaka: so what they talking about
Echolon Syaka: like doing
Rafi Gkid: The book is called "Rules of Play"
Rafi Gkid: it's amazing
kevin Oto: were is it at
Navaro Bao looks it up
Mk5793 Zeluco: lol....book.... that word is almost archaic
Navaro Bao: Heh.
Rafi Gkid: Still important folks
Rafi Gkid: Howard Gardner is a HUGE guy in the field of psycholo gy
Navaro Bao: http://books.google.com/books?id=UM-xyczrZuQC& dq= rules +of+ pla y&pg=PP1&ots=2xLJxR5DZo&sig=H5V7y5mQhrlxsUjWBr1abCNhFPM&prev=http://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=s&hl=en&q=rules+of+play&btnG=Google+Search&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail
Rafi Gkid: he originated the idea of multiple intelligences
Navaro Bao: Thats the book link I think, heh.
Navaro Bao: Hooray for Feedback!
Echolon Syaka: embarising
Mk5793 Zeluco: gor that right XD
Mk5793 Zeluco: yes...static the evilness up XD
Navaro Bao: And then it started to Rain
Rafi Gkid: eep!
Mk5793 Zeluco: no one shall hear >:)
Echolon Syaka: what was that
Navaro Bao: She turned off her static machine.
Echolon Syaka: oh my gosh
Echolon Syaka: get better sound systems
Echolon Syaka: xD
Navaro Bao: "Allright, who's playing with Tinfoil?"
Mk5793 Zeluco: XD
Navaro Bao: It's good enough, we're used to things not wor kin g per fect all y. We do play secondlife afterall :P
Rafi Gkid: I'm being told that this is a really old theater with an old soun d s ystem,
Rafi Gkid: Do you guys feel empowered?
Mk5793 Zeluco: not atm
Mk5793 Zeluco: unless feeling empowered is what I think is fe eling bor ed. ..in which case, I must be really empowered >.>
Navaro Bao: Lol
Echolon Syaka: this is teh worst feedback ive ever heard i n m y wjo le l ife
Echolon Syaka: xD
Echolon Syaka: and he thinks talking louder is gunna make it so u can he ar him better
Echolon Syaka: but it just increases the feedback

Rafi Gkid: Welcome Ryan!
Ryan Dayton: thank you
Mk5793 Zeluco: lol...maybe we can have chewbacca translate fo r him ...
Rafi Gkid: How many of you have filters on computers at your sch ool s?
kevin Oto: we do
Ryan Dayton: I do
Echolon Syaka: me
kevin Oto: but we got to prozy sites
Ryan Dayton: sidewalksoup.com
Ryan Dayton: :D
kevin Oto: what that sidewalk site
Rafi Gkid: do all of you know how to use proxies to get around t he filte rs?
kevin Oto: yea
kevin Oto: i do
Ryan Dayton: Yep
Navaro Bao: I've got filters and use proxies :P
kevin Oto: second life was on the block
Mk5793 Zeluco: <3 proxy servers :D
kevin Oto: at school
Rafi Gkid: yay sl!
Navaro Bao: I use SL at school :P
Ryan Dayton: My school blocked my website for some reason
kevin Oto: WHy
Rafi Gkid: well duh, what with your anarchistc view and all.
Rafi Gkid: : D
kevin Oto: a techer said he was going to block my site
kevin Oto: becuse i was just on it all the time
Rafi Gkid: I love the way Henry talks about Harry Potter as a te en that chal len ges tthe system
kevin Oto: why do are school block site
kevin Oto: what did linden labs do to my school
kevin Oto: what did myspace do to my school
kevin Oto: what did google/yahoo do to my school
Rafi Gkid: those are good qwuestions
kevin Oto: youtube*
Navaro Bao: You can't use Google?
Navaro Bao: Jebus.
kevin Oto: snice google owns youtube
Rafi Gkid: why do you think they, and other sites like them, are bl ocked ?
kevin Oto: theywont let us on them
Rafi Gkid: What do you think is behind the blocking, intention-w ise ?
kevin Oto: they said if they block youtube it will block g oog le
Navaro Bao: Well google can come up with anything on the i nte rnet, inc lud ing Innapropriate sites.
kevin Oto: becuse they share the servers
Mk5793 Zeluco: I think it's just because of the immature i dio ts th at f eel the need to do stupid things online >.>
Rafi Gkid: Hum, so, perhaps, some education needs to happen for tee ns th at d on' t know how to safely surf, is that what you're saying? ; )
Ryan Dayton: we play quake 3 in class
Ryan Dayton: :O
Mk5793 Zeluco: I think some education needs to take place tha t say s th at there's no need to look at porn on the library computers >.>
Ryan Dayton: someone put it on a school network folder
Rafi Gkid: oye....
Ryan Dayton teeth hurt.
kevin Oto: oye?
kevin Oto: oye....???
kevin Oto: can they block msn
kevin Oto: becuse it come with all window computers
Rafi Gkid: kevin - look up ye on wikipedia. : )
kevin Oto: school say wikipedia is a bad site 2
Navaro Bao: Digierectus, Digisapien
Rafi Gkid: Welcome Mariel!
Mariel Voyunicef: Thanks :D Hi, all!
Lucky Figtree: sorry everyone, I have to go =/
Rafi Gkid: Right now Howard Gardner is speaking.
Mariel Voyunicef: Waaa, thanks to him I have excuses at sc hoo l. xD DD
Rafi Gkid: btw - if folks aren't aware, this event is celebratin g a seri es o f b ooks that are being relased today, all addressing diffent areas of how digital media is changing learning.
Rafi Gkid: The books are for sale, but also totally free for dow nlo ad on the we b.
Rafi Gkid: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/dmal?cookieSet=1
Mariel Voyunicef: Thanks
Rafi Gkid: welcome
Navaro Bao: Gah, I gtg. Seeya Guys :P
kevin Oto: are they renting this place?
kevin Oto: becuse tell them
kevin Oto: next time get one with a nice mic
Rafi Gkid: Yeah, you can be sure that they're already aware....

Rafi Gkid: What do you guys think about the digital natives/digi tal immi gran ts language?
Mariel Voyunicef: Makes me go existentialist because at so me point I'l l b e an immigrant too x.x
Rafi Gkid: what do you mean?
Mariel Voyunicef: I guess that when I'm 35 there will be s ome thing new
Mariel Voyunicef: That people born in 2020 will pretty muc h g row u p wi th
Mariel Voyunicef: And then I'll feel old and close to deat h. :p
kevin Oto: idk
kevin Oto: will their be some thing new
kevin Oto: like other then computers
Rafi Gkid: Well, yes and no - the digital revolution does mean t hat cert ain peo ple are now trying to figure out how to interface with new media, but I think that now that it's underway, it'll be easier to keep up with.
Mariel Voyunicef: Not sure
Mariel Voyunicef: I don't see how digital media would help br eak a cyc le that's been going on for millennia
Rafi Gkid: hum, yeah, it's hard to predict how things will evolv e. Just a se nse though. I mean my grandfather knows really well how to use a tv, and that didn't come around until he was in his 20's.
Mk5793 Zeluco: they're still rambling, eh?
Mariel Voyunicef: Yeah, and so does my grandmum
Mariel Voyunicef: But she can't do a lot of stuff on the c omp uter
Rafi Gkid: rambling brilliantly. : )
Mariel Voyunicef: She wouldn't be interested at all on get tin g an acco unt in SL

Rafi Gkid: Smoopa, welcome!
Rafi Gkid: Did you get the video going?
Smoopa Spinotti: Holla :>
Smoopa Spinotti: Yep!
Mariel Voyunicef: Hi hi :)
Smoopa Spinotti: Hiya :D

Rafi Gkid: How many of you feel like the tests you take are test ing know ledg e t hat you'll need in the future?
Mk5793 Zeluco: lol...spanish maybe :P
Ryan Dayton: some, Rafi.
Rafi Gkid: What makes the difference between those that do and t hse that don 't ryan?
Ryan Dayton: The subject usually
Ryan Dayton: Like History
Ryan Dayton: blah
Rafi Gkid: History = irrelevant?
Ryan Dayton: some
Ryan Dayton: like
Ryan Dayton: the year
Mk5793 Zeluco: XD
Ryan Dayton: of events
Ryan Dayton: alot of US history is irrelevant
Mariel Voyunicef: I guess it depends on what you want to d o
Smoopa Spinotti: Thats true.
Rafi Gkid: So not necessarily history as a whole, but part of th e a ppora ch t o l earning history, such as memorizing dates, might be less useful, than, say roleplaying different players conniving to cotrol the seante in ancient rome.
Rafi Gkid: *senate
Ryan Dayton: right
Mariel Voyunicef: I do think that it's necessary, though
Mariel Voyunicef: Not at an extreme point where all you kn ow is da tes
Mariel Voyunicef: But I do wish some people had forced mor e s tuff into my brain when I was younger
Damien Rieko: wanna see my car?
Ryan Dayton: Who is going to go see National Treasure 2?
Rafi Gkid: no thanks Damien, I'm trying to watch./listen to the str eam.

Ryan Dayton: HENREY JENKINS!
Rafi Gkid: lol, yeah
Rafi Gkid: he rocks
Rafi Gkid: he'll be coming back to tsl soon
Smoopa Spinotti: Gasp.
Rafi Gkid: : )
Smoopa Spinotti: Do you know when?
Mariel Voyunicef: Can't it be sometime between 7th and 9th of Jan? Lol .
Rafi Gkid: smoopa, see that pic of his avatar next to the screen ?
Rafi Gkid: that was on GK island
Smoopa Spinotti: Oohhh
Rafi Gkid: lol, doubtful that soon Mariel. : P

Rafi Gkid: Hey away people, wake up for the closing remarks!
Ryan Dayton: be nice if we could hear
kevin Oto: hey
Rafi Gkid: yeah, we're trying to get them to use the mic
Rafi Gkid: this is ridiculous!
Rafi Gkid: virtual people are real people too!
Mk5793 Zeluco: XD
Smoopa Spinotti: Woman coughing was louder than him..
Smoopa Spinotti: Sheeeesh.
Mk5793 Zeluco: lol my computer fan is louder than him....
Smoopa Spinotti: Lmfao
Mat Brocco: oh he's talking?
Mk5793 Zeluco: XD
Smoopa Spinotti: XD
Mk5793 Zeluco: get that guy a megaphone XD
Rafi GKid throws Jonathan Fanton a megaphone.
Mat Brocco: LOL
Mat Brocco: everybody is out
Rafi Gkid: they're running for the hor'sdeveures
Smoopa Spinotti: XD
Mk5793 Zeluco: lol rafi, if you have someone there, make t hem wave to the camera XD
Mat Brocco: I like how everyone is just staggering out try ing to f ind the exit
Mk5793 Zeluco: XD
Mk5793 Zeluco: they need to stretch their legs, turn on so me music , et c X D
Mat Brocco: It stopped working for me lol
Rafi Gkid: oh noes, they stoppped it.
Mat Brocco: Rafi Santo what happen!!
Smoopa Spinotti: Yee, It stopped.
Mk5793 Zeluco: awwws
Mk5793 Zeluco: we dont getta see them wave?
Mat Brocco: .cry
Mk5793 Zeluco: turn it back on XD
kevin Oto: it over?
Rafi Gkid: It is indeed,
Rafi Gkid: Thanks to y'all for coming.