{"id":2515,"date":"2007-05-16T04:43:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-16T04:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2515"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:26:32","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:26:32","slug":"virtual-spaces-for-teens-and-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2515","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Spaces for Teens, and Other Random Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

I always run across such interesting information on the YALSA blog<\/a>. There’s a podcast<\/a> I really want to listen to (but haven’t been able to yet–the to-do list grows ever longer, I’m afraid) about Teen Second Life<\/a>, the teens-only version of the online virtual world Second Life<\/a>. The podcast covers what teens are doing in Second Life as well as what projects librarians are doing in Teen Second Life. It sounds like a unique educational opportunity. I know that there are teachers out there using Teen Second Life as a sort of virtual exchange program so that their students can interact with students elsewhere in the world. I think it’s an incredible idea. (And NO adults except those specially sanctioned to do so may have access to Teen Second Life–this is a good thing…)
Also from the YALSA blog<\/a>, I found out that “After Labor Day, twelve presidential candidates will be physically present at a college campus and accessible online through MySpace in interactive town halls reports USA Today<\/a>. The discussion will be web casted so that MySpace members can submit their questions as well.” I personally have an irrationally strong hatred of MySpace (and it was only with reluctance that I recently joined Facebook), but I think this is an excellent opportunity for teens to make their voices heard with political candidates. As a onetime member of the Junior Statesmen<\/a>, I think it’s crucial to get teens politically involved. Whoever thought of this one was definitely using their noodle…
Jen Robinson<\/a> is participating in something really cool called the Dystopian Book Challenge<\/a>, started by Lisa at Books. Lists. Life.<\/a> Sounds great–and now I have another blog to visit! Uh-oh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I always run across such interesting information on the YALSA blog. There’s a podcast I really want to listen to (but haven’t been able…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,15,10,86],"class_list":["post-2515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-af","tag-random-notes-and-errata","tag-views","tag-web-wanderings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4038,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515\/revisions\/4038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}