MediaSnackers Podcast

Featuring a podcast interview with Ryan Clemens, technology support analyst principal for Arizona State University, discussing Google's new interactive virtual environment, Lively and how a group of students spent several months testing the platform. Agree, disagree, like, don't like...? Feel free to leave a comment at http://mediasnackers.com/2008/11/mediasnackers-podcast124-rezed-podcast19/

A joint podcast with Global Kids and YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association) interviewing Kelly Czarnecki, a Technology Education Librarian, at ImaginOn with the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County. Kelly has been volunteering in a teen jail in the United States, where for the first time incarcerated youth are able to log in to the virtual world of Teen Second Life and participate in Global Kids' and Youth Venture's Dream it. Do it. Initiative. Agree, disagree, like, don't like...? Feel free to leave a comment at http://mediasnackers.com/2008/10/ms-podcast123-rezed-podcast18/

Chatting with Amanda Lenhart, one of the authors of an exciting new Pew Internet & American Life Project report titled, Teens, Video Games and Civics. Agree, disagree, like, don't like...? Feel free to leave a comment at http://mediasnackers.com/2008/10/mediasnackers-podcast122-rezed-podcast17/

Speaking with Scott Arpajian, one of the founders of Dizzywood and also Patti Purcell, the principal of Bel Air Elementary School who has been using the virtual platform in an educational setting. Agree, disagree, like, don't like...? Feel free to leave a comment at http://mediasnackers.com/2008/09/mediasnackers-podcast121-rezed-podcast15/

Sarah 'Intellagirl' Robbins is a PhD Candidate at Ball State University and is also the editor of the Second Llife Education blog. Agree, disagree, like, don't like...? Feel free to leave a comment at http://mediasnackers.com/2008/09/mediasnackers-podcast120-rezed-podcast14/

Jonathan Richter is an educational technology research scientist, educator, and futurist at the University of Oregon, discussing here the forthcoming Second Life Education Community Conference. Agree, disagree, like, don't like...? Feel free to leave a comment at http://mediasnackers.com/2008/08/mediasnackers-podcast119-rezed-podcast13/

Simon Bennet is the founding Director of RollingSound and Roll7, a multimedia youth-focussed agency talking here about two pro-social youth-led video games they have produced. Agree, disagree, like, don't like...? Feel free to leave a comment at http://mediasnackers.com/2008/08/mediasnackers-podcast118/

Featuring an interview conducted by Barry Joseph of Global Kids at the recent GLS Conference with Dr James Paul Gee, a big time expert in the academic field of gaming and learning. Agree, disagree, like, don't like...? Feel free to leave a comment at http://mediasnackers.com/2008/08/mediasnackers-podcast117-rezed-podcast12/

Featuring an interview conducted by Barry Joseph of Global Kids at the recent GLS Conference with a mother and son about their experience and focus on virtual worlds. Agree, disagree, like, don't like...? Feel free to leave a comment at http://mediasnackers.com/2008/07/mediasnackers-podcast116-rezed-podcast11/

Donna Stevens is Director of Implementation, Quest Atlantis at Indiana University discussing the implementation process as it relates to teacher trainings, the students and the classroom. Agree, disagree, like, don't like...? Feel free to leave a comment at http://mediasnackers.com/2008/07/rezed-podcast9-mediasnackers-podcast115/