[P4K] Tour of CONSENT! game in Teen Second Life
Global Kids Playing 4 Keeps teen Tashawna, part of the team who helped develop CONSENT!, takes us on a tour of the project that was created within Teen Second Life during 2006-07. She was asked to narrate it nearly a year after the game was completed. It was created in partnership with youth in the Global Kids after school program and youth developers in Teen Second Life.
In this simulation based on Harriet A. Washington's book "Medical Apartheid" you play as an African-American prisoner who has to make tough decisions about whether to choose to 'consent' and submit to medical experiments from the 1940s to the present.
The game was built within the virtual world of Teen Second Life.
Find out more information on our blog or the Global Kids website.
This program was made possible through the generous support of Microsoft Corporations US Partners in Learning.
Comments
As adults and Ex-Cons, we're doing something similar using Java.net's Wonderland package, as we aim to have our own servers. My hat is off to the Teen Second Life team for doing something so bold and original. This is a masterful work of art as well as a history lesson that needs to be shared. TRUE consent is such an issue that isn't always conveyed as well as Teen Second Life has. My congrats!! Ric
Posted by: Rickey Moore | November 19, 2008 3:26 AM