This collection of five 30 second Public Service Announcements were created in Teen Second Life by Global Kids after school program, the Virtual Video Project, funded by the MacArthur Foundation and developed with the support of the Museum of the Moving Image. These were the first videos created by the students, to learn the basic of creating machinima around social issues. Their final project will focus on child soldiers. Read more at http://www.HolyMeatballs.org

Fantastic! These kids are talking about new media through new media – and fortunately for teachers of young people everywhere they are sharing what they’re doing and how they’re doing it on youtube and their group blog.