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[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...[p4k] blog coverage of release of Tempest in the Crescent City
People around the blogosphere have been a-buzz over the recent release of our latest Playing 4 Keeps game, Hurricane Katrina: Tempest in Crescent City. Some of those who have picked up the release include: http://www.mmischools.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=13980 http://blog.missiontolearn.com/2008/09/serious-game-hurricane-katrina/ http://www.hurricane-katrina.org/2008/08/global-kids-to.html http://latifaz.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/hurricane-katrinatempest-in-crescent-city/ http://www.care2.com/news/member/590300383/863594 http://noladder.blogspot.com/2008/08/jeudiflags-up.html...P4K Game Launch
We are happy and proud to announce the successful launch of the game Hurricane Katrina: Tempest in Crescent City and it's supporting social networking website www.tempestincrescentcity.org The launch party took place at the Global Kids office. Carole opened with a...Global Kids to Launch Online Community and Game, “Hurricane Katrina: Tempest in Crescent City,” to Raise Youth Awareness on Eve of 3rd Anniversary of Katrina
To mark the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, youth leaders for Global Kids, Inc. have created an online community and game in conjunction with Game Pill, Inc., AMD and Microsoft Corp.’s Partners in Learning where young people can engage...Forum
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