Global Kids' Digital Media Initiative

Chat Log Teen SL Press Junket
January 28, 2008

Staff GKid: hi there!
Staff GKid: So why don't ya'll follow me over to the gathering area?
PressPass4 GKid: Hi!
Claudia Linden: hi Machinima Guru
Staff GKid is Offline
Blue Linden: nice 'stache Mat hehe
Mat Brocco: ;)
MarineRecon Bade: time to rock!!!!!!!!
Rafi GKid: HI everyone!
Rafi GKid: We're going to get started in about 5 minutes, if I can ask anyone who's not presenting, and you know who you are, please step off the stage!
Amira GKid: press are setting up right now
Amira GKid: and then we will begin
Amira GKid: thank you everyone for coming... hope you brought your dancing shoes
Amira GKid: we should be starting in just a couple minutes
Rafi GKid: I'm going to ask Cathy, Amira, and Rik to please pop onto stage!
Rafi GKid: ok folks, I'm going to ask folks to quiet down, as we get started
Amira GKid: Is everyone ready to get started??
Ferrari28 Giano: ya
Blue Linden: Thanks for hosting GKids :)
Amira GKid: We are excited to be doing this!!
Rafi GKid: Remember, this is the first time that press have been let into TSL, so y'all want tos how your best side. : )
Sidar Devin: i have to invite friends ;)
Mat Brocco: Where is our good friend Mercury Gkid!?
Machinima Guru: I'm so excited to see everyone here
Cathy GKid isn't old, she's chronologically gifted
Machinima Guru: lol Cathy
Daniel Voyager: starts taking photos
Con Georgette: OH HAY BLUE
Claudia Linden: hi. yep, lotsa lindens. going well thanks.
Rafi GKid: We're getting starting, so I’d like to give the "mic"
Rafi GKid: to Amira,
Amira GKid: One mic everyone please so we can go ahead and get this party started
Amira GKid: Welcome everyone to a very exciting event!
Con Georgette: Lmfao! Marine
MarineRecon Bade: ILL START THE PARTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ferrari28 Giano: haha
Kos Lefavre: Thanks Everybody for coming!
Amira GKid: Today we are here to celebrate all of you and your enormous efforts in becoming a part of the D.I.D.I. Initiative.
Amira GKid: Whether you are directly involved in a venture team of your own, or if you are simply here because of your support for the D.I.D.I. movement and other GK programs, we are so grateful to all of you for making this event possible.
Amira GKid: This is also a special day because for the first time ever, GK is joined by international press, here in our New York City office and online, who have come to witness the incredible creativity happening every day on the teen grid.
MarineRecon Bade: quiet please hes speaking
Kos Lefavre: Thanks Claudia :)
Amira GKid: To give you an idea of today’s events:
Amira GKid: First, we will hear from Sally of Youth Venture, our partner in the D.I.D.I. Initiative. Sally will speak about our work on the DIDI Initiative Island and ways that you can get involved if you aren’t already..
Amira GKid: Next, Rik and Cathy will be speaking about two new GK Initiatives here on the Teen Grid.
Amira GKid: Next, D.I.D.I. Venturers who have already started working on their ideas to benefit their community will be invited up to the stage to share their experiences with the D.I.D.I. Initiative and why they are involved.
Amira GKid: Finally Barry Joseph, Director of the Online Leadership Program has a surprise for you and it will involve leaving the island and heading over to a new and exciting part of the GK Estate.
Amira GKid: does that sound good to everyone???
PressPass GKid: Great!
Daniel Voyager: Indeed :))
Con Georgette: >_>
Kos Lefavre: Ok :)!
Amira GKid: Awesome!
Ferrari28 Giano: cool
Victoria Hanfoi: Woot!
Kos Lefavre: Let's Do it Amira!
Con Georgette: Wewt ^^
Amira GKid: Ok so lets get started
Meghan GKid claps
Kos Lefavre: Sure.
Amira GKid: First lets hear from Sally
Sally YouthVenture: Welcome, everyone! Thank you all for being here today at the D.I.D.I. Initiative Island!
Sally YouthVenture: The D.I.D.I. Initiative is a partnership between Global Kids and Youth Venture that supports Teen Second Life residents to launch their own ventures, either within our outside of Teen Second Life, that create lasting benefit to their communities.
Sally YouthVenture: Through a series of workshops and the creation of an Action Plan, teens identify a problem in their community, form a team, and develop a plan for a sustainable venture to tackle the problem.
Kos Lefavre: Sounds Interesting :)
Sally YouthVenture: The teams then present their ideas to a Selection Panel of peers and adults. Once teams are ready to launch, the D.I.D.I. Initiative provides seed funding of up to $1,000 and ongoing tools and support.
Sally YouthVenture: D.I.D.I. participants also become part of the global Youth Venture movement of young changemakers creating and leading their own social ventures around the world and collaborating online through www.GenV.net.
Sally YouthVenture: Today we’re holding this Changemakers Party to celebrate the incredible work being done by all the TSL residents involved in D.I.D.I. to create positive change within Teen Second Life and in your local communities.
Kos Lefavre: Woo!
Sally YouthVenture: Together you are creating an amazing community of young changemakers!
Sally YouthVenture: We’re especially delighted to announce the launch of D.I.D.I.’s first 4 Venture Teams!
Sally YouthVenture: The teams are:
Sally YouthVenture: Beat Bullying
Sally YouthVenture: Jump Start Park
Sally YouthVenture: Body Rider
Sally YouthVenture: Dark Matter
Sally YouthVenture: These teams have pioneered in planning and creating ventures within the virtual world of Teen Second Life.
Sally YouthVenture: They have written detailed Action Plans, presented their ideas to a Selection Panel, and have been selected to receive seed funding!
Kos Lefavre: Congratulations!
Sally YouthVenture: They are now ready to launch their ventures and put their amazing ideas into action!
Sally YouthVenture: We are so proud of what these pioneers have accomplished so far and can’t wait to see their ventures take off!
Kos Lefavre: :)
Sally YouthVenture: We will soon be beginning more workshops for new participants.
Sally YouthVenture: We would like all of you to let your friends know about this opportunity and encourage them to get involved in D.I.D.I.
Kos Lefavre: Sure.
Sally YouthVenture: Anyone interested in participating can join the D.I.D.I. group and IM me or Meghan GKid to sign up.
Sally YouthVenture: All youth are welcome!
Kos Lefavre: :)
Sally YouthVenture: and now we'll hear from Rik and Cathy about our new projects!
Rik Gkid: Is that me?
Con Georgette: Lmfao
Sally YouthVenture: yes
Rafi GKid: : D
Cathy GKid: /nods
Rik Gkid: /smirk
Machinima Guru: yayyyy
Rik Gkid: ok let me take off my press hat!
Rik Gkid: whew that camera is heavy
Seabo Destiny: lol
Victoria Hanfoi: :)
Rik Gkid: Hi everyone. I'm Rik Panganiban from Global Kids.
Kos Lefavre: Nice To Meet You :)
Rik Gkid: I'm working with my colleague Shawna to launch a couple of exciting new ventures in Teen SL, adult SL and other virtual worlds
Rik Gkid: GK is working with the MacArthur Foundation to help them explore how to best work as a foundation in virtual worlds.
Rik Gkid: Two of MacArthur's most important programs relates to human rights and the environment. So we'll be experimenting with several in-world workshops, live events and contests related to these areas.
Rik Gkid: On Human Rights, we are creating an International Justice Center in SL, where folks can learn about global human rights issues and connect with activists, UN officials and victims of human rights abuses
Kos Lefavre: Rik, Would this bring adults as victims to tell us their stories, or would you only have teen victims?
Rik Gkid: We are super excited to announce that we are launching a new tool where people can connect using their cell phones to people in SL, which we are calling Cell2SL.
Kos Lefavre: Sounds Great !
Machinima Guru: WOW
Lucky Figtree: Yay!
Seabo Destiny: yeah! awesome!
Kos Lefavre: That's awesome :)
Asasyn Avro: kool
bbelevenslashsixtytwo Ayres: :)
Victoria Hanfoi: Yay!
Rik Gkid: Our first effort here may involve bringing in former child soldiers in Africa to talk to teens in SL using text chat / cell phone text.
PressPass GKid: Very cool - cell2SL
Cathy GKid: very cool
Kos Lefavre: :)
Rik Gkid: We'll also be doing projects related to sustainable development and conservation.
Rik Gkid: We hope to bring in live events streamed straight to the Teen Grid and give you an opportunity to chat and ask questions with the speakers.
Bobman Clip: lol
Kos Lefavre: Sounds Good.
Rik Gkid: So stay tuned as we announce events, workshops, competitions and other good stuff.
Rik Gkid: I'm so excited to be here and chatting with you guys.
Kos Lefavre: Same .
Rik Gkid: And now I'll turn it over to Cathy to talk about her exciting news.
Cathy GKid: Hi all!
PressPass GKid: Hi!
Kos Lefavre: Hey Cathy.
Rik Gkid: You all rawk!
Cathy GKid: Hi everyone.. I'm Cathy Gkid and I'm working with a great colleague, Beth, as we create a new curriculum for Global Kids.
Rik GKid puts press hat back on.
Cathy GKid: The new Science in Second Life program will take New York City public high school freshmen and allow them to learn science in a virtual world. Second Life!
Cathy GKid: They will be investigating issues like sustainability and ways to be better global citizens in how we all impact the earth. And.. learning how to do scientific inquiry.. all at the same time.
Cathy GKid: This program follows the state standards teachers must use to teach science and will actually REPLACE more traditional classtime!
Cathy GKid: After this first semester, we're hoping this curriculum will be made available to science teachers and their classes.
Cathy GKid: Who knows, maybe you or someone you know might get to take science in Second Life sometime soon!
Jerrying Wisent: teachers?
Kos Lefavre: Cathy.
Kos Lefavre: Does this involve the schools already set up in Second Life?
Kos Lefavre: Or is this a school of your own.
Cathy GKid: We're really looking forward to creating some great stuff..
Cathy GKid: This will start at a public school in New York City... BUT
Cathy GKid: perhaps by next fall at the earliest.. school teachers in OTHER .. REAL PUBLIC SCHOOLs.. will be able to use the program
Cathy GKid: so.. if you go to school... in .. um... Topeka Kansas for example..
Cathy GKid: who knows.. maybe your teacher would want to use it too?!!
Cathy GKid: it can replace some of your science class time :-D.. That's the goal
Kos Lefavre: :)
Cathy GKid: How does that sound?
Kos Lefavre: Great :).
Jerrying Wisent: where is the classroom and is it free?
Cathy GKid: yep!!
Victoria Hanfoi: Amazing!
Cathy GKid: hehe
Jerrying Wisent: wow
Jerrying Wisent: can we go to the science class anytime we want?
Cathy GKid: I believe you will be able to get more info on holymeatballs.org
Amira GKid: And now we are proud to give you a sneak peak of what D.I.D.I. is all about. Daniel Voyager, one of our very first DIDI pioneers will start us out!

Machinima Guru: yay Daniel!
Kos Lefavre: Woo!
Kos Lefavre: Go Daniel!
Blue Linden claps
Victoria Hanfoi: Yeah Dan!
Daniel Voyager: Hello Everyone, woooot! its great to be on stage :), i'm going to talk about what what DIDI means to me and a summary about Beat Bullying
Daniel Voyager: Okay
Kos Lefavre: :)
Daniel Voyager: DIDI means to me that I can take part in a project in TSL I.E Venture which could make a an amazing difference to our lives, it also means that I can be proud of the work for later in the future where i can look back on my achievements in TSL. For more info about Beat Bullying please visit the following website > http://www.genv.net/en-us/team/eye4you_alliance_beat_bullying
Kos Lefavre: Kk.
Daniel Voyager: I am apart of DIDI because I would like to make a difference to the community in Teen Second Life and in Real Life by doing a TSL Venture called Beat Bullying which will be running workshops around England in schools and libraries in Teen Second Life :))
Daniel Voyager: The main impacts Beat Bullying would like to achieve in next 6 months or so is 1. We hope to develop space for teens to talk about bullying with other teens about it and how to tackle the problem also learn some self esteem lessons and along with other things :)
Daniel Voyager: 2. during our venture there will be fun activities for teens to be involved in like machinimas, games, posters, newsletters maybe. This will be a fun but learning environment and beat bullying in real life and Teen Second Life with our group getting bigger to help out and volunteer.
Kos Lefavre: O_o.
Daniel Voyager: I'm really excitied about creating a venture in TSL yay
Daniel Voyager: Thanks for listening :))
Kos Lefavre: Yw.
Kos Lefavre: :)
Daniel Voyager: For more info check out Bullying please visit the following website > http://www.genv.net/en-us/team/eye4you_alliance_beat_bullying
Cathy GKid: (anyone that wants to talk about the science school can talk to me after the press conference..)
Bobman Clip: lol
Jerrying Wisent: ok
Meghan GKid: thanks Daniel
Cathy GKid: yea Daniel!!
Amira GKid: Now lets hear from the Ramapo teens!!!
Daniel Voyager: :))
Kos Lefavre: :)
Lucky Figtree: Yay!
Rik Gkid: /applause
Rik Gkid: I have a notecard if anyone wants details on the human rights and environment stuff, BTW
Eldrene Westland: Hey everyone!
Meghan GKid: Hi Ramapo
Seabo Destiny: Hi!
Seabo Destiny: so, basically
Eldrene Westland: We are the ramapo teens, as you may have noticed.
Seabo Destiny: we're the Ramapo Teens, and our Venture is called KLASS
Cathy GKid: cheers
Seabo Destiny: now, KLASS hasn't really launched yet
Seabo Destiny: but we can pretty much give a recap of what we've been doing for the last few weeks!
Seabo Destiny: so, KLASS was a idea for an organization that originally started on the Ramapo Islands
Seabo Destiny: its our school's private parcel of land on the teen grid
Seabo Destiny: and this idea that me and my 2 friends started gained popularity
Rafi GKid knows Ramapo. : )
Seabo Destiny: and as we worked on KLASS, Tech club introduced the DIDI Initiative to us
Seabo Destiny: and, we thought at first, "sure, why not!"
Seabo Destiny: and we named our Venture KLASS
Seabo Destiny: we thought about what to do for our venture
Seabo Destiny: and we remembered our friend at school, who is, unfortunately, in the hospital
Seabo Destiny: she suffers mentally from self mutilation out of depression
Kos Lefavre: That's Horrible :(.
Seabo Destiny: she's still not back at school
Seabo Destiny: yeah
Seabo Destiny: and she's not the only one with this situation. we have many friends who suffer. So we decided, why not tackle the problems teens face in such suburban areas?
Seabo Destiny: and we thought there were other problems among teens, too
Seabo Destiny: underage drinking, abuse, self mutilation, drugs, and such others
Seabo Destiny: and we thought we would build a store in world on the teen grid
Seabo Destiny: that would sell objects we make as a fundraiser
Machinima Guru: aww
Kos Lefavre: That's a good idea :)
Seabo Destiny: and the profits we make in Lindens dollars would be donated to a fund to help pay for therapeutic help
Seabo Destiny: thank you
Seabo Destiny: and so far we have our school's support
Eldrene Westland: Back! Thanks you, Seabo,
Seabo Destiny: i have a few examples of what we've been doing while we balance our time between work and activities
Seabo Destiny: for example, we played primtionary. pictionary, with building
Seabo Destiny: this fountain symbolizes many things. to sum it up, it symbolizes the earth as the green sphere. one world, connected. not countries
Seabo Destiny: and how we work together to face the treacherous waters below
Seabo Destiny: part 2
Seabo Destiny: another thing
Seabo Destiny: a primtionary game, a sunset
Seabo Destiny: el, anything?
Eldrene Westland: Yes, Seabo,
Eldrene Westland: I, obviously, have been doing the same thing,
Eldrene Westland: So, another example of our creativity is this.
Eldrene Westland: part 1
Eldrene Westland: Ah, well, that didn't work! :)
Eldrene Westland: But anyway, I created a flag.
Eldrene Westland: It was golden, and it symbolized our creativity as a whole!
Seabo Destiny: yeah
Rik Gkid: I'm sure its great!
Meghan GKid saw the flag and confirms it's lovely.
Yesenia YouthVenture: I agree!
Rafi GKid: yay flag!
Eldrene Westland: That's pretty much it, any one else have anything to say?
Seabo Destiny: nope
Seabo Destiny: we're good
Eldrene Westland: There,
Cole Mumfuzz: i wanna help u guys
Seabo Destiny: us?
Cole Mumfuzz: ya
Seabo Destiny: cool, thanks!
Cole Mumfuzz: add me
Amira GKid: Wonderful Ramapo!!! Now lets hear from Kevin Oto!!!
Victoria Hanfoi clapps for the ramapo teens and their awesome hearts!
Yesenia YouthVenture: Yaay!
Cathy GKid claps
Blue Linden claps!
Cole Mumfuzz: seabo add me plz
Sally YouthVenture claps
Seabo Destiny: k
Seabo Destiny: looking for u
Meghan GKid pokes kevin
Kevin Oto: Hello everyone, I am glad to be here. The D.I.D.I. Initiative is for teens in TSL to talk about health related issues. We also are trying to take action to help improve our communities. I think what we at DIDI is doing a great thing! My DIDI project is Body Rider and it aims to help educate people about drugs and alcohol and their danger to teens. Thank you.
Meghan GKid claps
Amira GKid: Short and sweet!!!
Amira GKid: Thanks Kevin!!!
Meghan GKid: great!
Lucky Figtree: Yay!
Cathy GKid: :-)
Amira GKid: And now from our final presenter!
Amira GKid: BB!!
Cathy GKid whispers.. he's hiding behind the speakers
Yesenia YouthVenture: hehe
bbelevenslashsixtytwo Ayres: ok now I’m floating..
Meghan GKid: hehe you can talk in the air!
bbelevenslashsixtytwo Ayres: Am I sitting on Kevin?
Amira GKid: While we wait for bb, just wanted to give another shout out to all of the amazing energy and creativity going on this one little sim today!
Rafi GKid: w00t!
Sally YouthVenture: yay!
Yesenia YouthVenture: YaY!
Victoria Hanfoi: Hazzah!
Blue Linden claps
Rafi GKid notes that all the gk staff are very excited. : )
Amira GKid: If you aren’t yet involved in DIDI and want to be please IM me or Meghan GKid and we will be happy to put you on the list for upcoming workshops.
bbelevenslashsixtytwo Ayres: ok, imfixed
Yesenia YouthVenture: :)
Amira GKid: Great BB we are ready for you!
bbelevenslashsixtytwo Ayres: Hi everyone, im bb, and me and a partner of mines will soon launch our venture
bbelevenslashsixtytwo Ayres: d.i.d.i is a great thing,
bbelevenslashsixtytwo Ayres: if anyone wants to start something that helps communities, online or in real life, in some way, u should join d.i.d.i
bbelevenslashsixtytwo Ayres: our venture basically will help the sl community
fone: Hey! Look! Listen!
bbelevenslashsixtytwo Ayres: by welcoming new and old members
bbelevenslashsixtytwo Ayres: we will teach things from building, to making clothes and hopefully things in between, also we will hold sessions to talk about health related issues teens go through in real life
bbelevenslashsixtytwo Ayres: this will make a diffrence in some teens life, for them to be able to freely get things off of theyre chest
Kos Lefavre: Isn't there already the Teen Second Life Mentors/ Greeters association for that?
bbelevenslashsixtytwo Ayres: yea but its not exactly mentoring i would say..
Kos Lefavre: More like counseling?
Kos Lefavre: So basically the difference is that your group counsels teens in need of help.
bbelevenslashsixtytwo Ayres: hmm u could say that, also to keep the "fun" in things, here in sl we will build a theme park
Kos Lefavre: Sounds Good :)
Asasyn Avro: kool
bbelevenslashsixtytwo Ayres: but on the side we will have those classes ect
Seabo Destiny: yeah!
Kos Lefavre: Kk.
Daniel Voyager: great :))
Victoria Hanfoi: Awesome!
bbelevenslashsixtytwo Ayres: lets talk more about this at the party, because as i understand we have to wrap up!
bbelevenslashsixtytwo Ayres: :)
Kos Lefavre: :)
Barry GKid: Hey, has this been awesome or what? Can we have another roundof applauds for everyone who has presented so far?
Meghan GKid: If you would like to get involved with DIDI please IM Meghan GKid to find out about our next workshops!
Lucky Figtree: Yay!
Kos Lefavre Applauses!
Cathy GKid: /claps
Kos Lefavre Applauses again.
Kos Lefavre and again
Blue Linden claps
Sally YouthVenture claps
Eldrene Westland claps
Meghan GKid: Great job DIDI teens!
Barry GKid: So now
Victoria Hanfoi: Yay!
Seabo Destiny claps loudly and enthusiastically
Barry GKid: Who is ready to PARTY
Amira GKid: YAY!!!
Barry GKid: ?
Kos Lefavre: Thank You For Spending Your time :)
Kos Lefavre: WOO!
Barry GKid: BUT
Lucky Figtree: Yay!
Barry GKid: beforewe do
Victoria Hanfoi: Woot!
Amira GKid: Whoop!!
Barry GKid: we have a ribbon cutting
Yesenia YouthVenture: Yes! Great JoB!
Kos Lefavre: :O
Barry GKid: We will now go over to the new and latest GK island
Blue Linden: great work by all :)
Barry GKid: Imhotep
Barry GKid: the island we will use for the new Science Through Second Life class
Kos Lefavre: Sounds Great :).
nikdogg Aeon: kool
Barry GKid: To get your TP,
Yesenia YouthVenture: :o)
Barry GKid: please click on the simple box on the ground on the middle of the stage
Kos Lefavre: Alright :).
Barry GKid: once there, we will have a ribbon cutting, and then have adance party
Barry GKid: So please come join us for this historic occasion
Kos Lefavre: Sure!
Kos Lefavre: Let's go Everyone!
Barry GKid: all here are welcome to come
Barry GKid: I will fly there now, if you'd rather play Follow the Leader
Machinima Guru: yay :D

Kos Lefavre: Nice Ribbon :)
nikdogg Aeon: cut the ribbon
Claudia Linden loves the ribbon
Rik Gkid: who brought the scissors
nikdogg Aeon: cut it cut it cut it cut it cut it cut it cut it cut it cut it cut it cut it cut it
Rhiannon Ferlinghetti: /is waiting for the signal ;)
Rhiannon Ferlinghetti: but thanks for the compliments on the ribbons :)
Barry GKid: Ribbon cutting in about 60 seconds
Rik Gkid: Is this ribbon made of recycled materials?
nikdogg Aeon: cut it cut it cut it cut it cut it cut it cut it cut it cut it cut it cut it cut it cut it Barry GKid: I will give the word and Joyce will let it rip
Claudia Linden: ;D
Blue Linden: the excitement mounts!
Barry GKid: Thank you all for coming for the opening of this island
Barry GKid: the science class began this morning
Barry GKid: and starting Monday they will be here every day
Kos Lefavre: What time?
Yesenia YouthVenture: YAY!
Barry GKid: 30 seconds
Barry GKid: 20 seconds
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Cole Mumfuzz: wwoooot
Barry GKid: 3
Kos Lefavre: 2
Barry GKid: 1
Kos Lefavre: WOO!
Daniel Voyager: YAY!!!!
Kos Lefavre: GO TSL!
Kos Lefavre: WOOOO!!!
Victoria Hanfoi: Yay
bbelevenslashsixtytwo Ayres: yaaaayyyyyyyy!
Kos Lefavre: WOO!
Barry GKid: 2
Barry GKid: :-)
nikdogg Aeon: ...
Kos Lefavre: Lol.
Yesenia YouthVenture shouts: YAY!
Kos Lefavre grabs a scissor and throws it to whoever's cutting it.
Claudia Linden applauds
Kos Lefavre: Yay!
bbelevenslashsixtytwo Ayres: lol yay!
Barry GKid: yeah!!!
Eldrene Westland claps loudly
Lucky Figtree: Yay!
Barry GKid: Let's dance!