OLP Programs

Our Online Leadership Program (OLP) was created in 2000 to bring new media into our after school programs, introduce these programs into online communities, and explore how the combination of the two could develop 21st Century Learning Skills. Through programs utilizing video games, virtual worlds, online dialogues and social networks, youth involved in our programs now have the opportunity to have their voices heard and make a global impact in ways that were previously unimaginable. Below are the main categories of programs OLP offers.


The Edge Project
img_sm.jpg The Edge Project expands the capacity of civic and cultural institutions to use new media as innovative educational platforms that engage youth in learning and promote youth civic participation.

The Edge Project is interested in civic and cultural institutions bringing cutting edge digital media into their youth educational programs, and where this programming is a disruptive force challenging the educators and/or the institutional cultural to work on the edge of their comfort level.

To go to our OLP Edge Project page and learn more, click here.

Gaming
img_sm.jpg Global Kids has acted on its belief that games can be a form of youth media, engaging youth in addressing critical world issues.

Through our gaming programs, Global Kids youth leaders worked to create web-based games like Ayiti: The Cost of Life and Hurricane Katrina: Tempest in Crescent City.

To go to our OLP Gaming page and learn more, click here.

Social Media
img_sm.jpg Global Kids has always believed that youth should be more than critical consumers but active producers of digital media.

The development of this media has increased the opportunities for Global Kids to develop programs which utilize these media production tools to support youth to broadcast their voices on critical issues.

To go to our OLP Social Media page and learn more, click here.

Virtual Worlds
img_sm.jpg As one of the newest of the "new media," immersive 3D virtual worlds are rich social spaces that bring together a range of social media and allow youth to make important connections with each other across borders and cultures.

To go to our OLP Virtual Worlds page and learn more, click here.

School Based
img_sm.jpg Occasionally, Global Kids' Power of Citizenry Program collaborates with the Online Leadership Program, including international trips to Mexico and Kenya, fusing organizing techniques with Global Kids' unique approach to youth development.

To go to our School-based Programs page and learn more, click here.

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