Hurricane Katrina News (RSS)
Our goal is to create a community around the game 'Hurricane Katrina: Tempest in Crescent City'. If you have not played the game yet, play now and share your comments with us. Learn more about the disaster and find out how you can take action. Browse or contribute to the media section. You can also join a special interest group or create your own. If you have used our curriculum to educate on the issue, please share your experiences.
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Global Kids' Resources Relating to Situation in Haiti
Many of the staff here at Global Kids have been thinking about how to respond to the recent events in Haiti (e.g. some of our students spoke about it on the local news last night). As a diverse staff...Training for Educators on Games-based Learning this Friday at Global Kids HQ
This Friday, December 4, Global Kids is leading a Games Based Education Training for educators at our headquarters in New York City. If you are a school teacher, librarian, youth worker or other educational professional that would like to learn...[p4k] Report Finds Program Effectively Trains Educators To Teach Game Design
NEWS RELEASE 137 East 25th St. New York, NY 10010 www.globalkids.org 212-226-0130 LIBRARIES AND COMMUNITY CENTERS USE GAMES TO INSPIRE YOUTH TO TAKE ACTION Report Finds Program Effectively Trains Educators To Teach Game Design Selen Turkay, a doctoral student in...[P4K] Global Kids' Tempest In Crescent City in Christian Science Monitor
A recent article in the Christian Science Monitor focuses on video games that let you play with topics taken from the news around us. It spotlights Tempest In Crescent City as an example. Another featured news game, “Hurricane Katrina:...[p4k] Knight News game awards ceremony
We hope everyone thinks good thoughts for us going into the first annual Knight News Game Awards ceremony Wednesday night as part of the Games for Change Festival. Some of the Playing 4 Keeps student designers will be showing Ayiti:...[P4K] AMD Foundation and Games for Change unveil tookit to help create socially conscious games
Hot off of Business Wire, AMD just sent out a release about the launch of their new educational toolkit entitled "Let the Games Begin" which is focused on helping organizations create games on topics of social issues. This is all...{P4K] Review of Hurricane Katrina: Tempest in Crescent City game
If you haven't already checked out the review that was written by the Conscious Gamer blog site about Hurricane Katrina: Tempest in Crescent City, it is definitely worth the read and offers up a good game play summary. According to...[p4k] Launch of Tempest workshops
As part of our ning social media site for our P4K game, Hurricane Katrina: Tempest in Crescent City, we have launched this past week new curriculum workshops. They include an online and an offline workshop. Tempest in Crescent City Online...[blog] What's in a game?
The Berkely Beacon published a recent article entitled Pushing Buttons: What's in a game? Education, for starters, should play a part. In it they go through their thoughts on serious game and the importance of keeping a fun sense of...[P4K] The blogosphere a buzz about Tempest
The blogosphere has been a buzz lately with posts about our latest Playing 4 Keeps game, Hurricane Katrina: Tempest in Crescent City. recent post reviewing Tempest. Although they don't think it as amazing as they did our prior year's game,...[P4K] NonProfit TImes spotlights P4K, Tempest & Ayiti games
The NonProfit Times posted a recent article by Michele Donohue entitled "Philanthropy Games By And For Kids And Donors" which spotlights our Playing 4 Keeps (P4K) program along with the release of the game Tempest in Crescent City. Read the...[P4K] Tempest in Crescent CIty is mentioned in "The Buzz"
Our game Tempest in Crescent City was promoted recently in the School Library Journal's "The Buzz section: Katrina Game An educational game and social network about Hurricane Katrina involves young users in the personal stories of New Orleans residents and...[In the Media] ENCORE JOURNEY: From women's history to Global Kids
Encore.org featured a wonderful article that focused on GK's own Executive Director and Founder Carole Artigliani. In the post ENCORE JOURNEY: From women's history to Global Kids, Jenny Griffin the author, Interviews Carole and tells the story of the path...[p4k] Our latest game wins award!
Hurricane Katrina: Tempest in Crescent City was just awarded the Editor's Choice Award from Children's Technology Review. Children's Technology Review (CTR) is an ad-free, subscriber-supported web and print-based publication. It is designed to keep educators, parents and librarians informed on...[P4K] Children's Technology Review spotlights Tempest in Crescent City
The magazine Children's Technology Review has not only published an excellent review of Hurricane Katrina: Tempest in Crescent City with one week of its launch - "It is easy to play and has a valuable educational message... a good game...Forum
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