"Turn Off the Damn PC and Go Outside” Rik's presentation at NetSquared conference, San Jose, CA May 28, 2008 Video of this presentation available at http://fora.tv/2008/05/28/Rik_Panganiban_on_How_Second_Life_Can_Help_Kids_Globally

1. Rik Panganiban Global Kids http://olp.globalkids.org

2. “ Turn Off the Damn PC and Go Outside” By Rik Panganiban, Global Kids With the Assistance of TEENAGEMUTANTNINJALINCOLN

5. “… Who Waste Their Lives Doing Non-things…” Real learning and interactions happen in Virtual Worlds that would not be possible in the Real World.

6. “… Because They Loathe Themselves…” Using Virtual Worlds to foster leadership, self-confidence and collaboration skills. DIDI - public good project

7. “… To Turn Off the Damn PC and Go Outside Now and Then…” Working for change in the real world. Darfur, IJC, Switchboard, machinima, games, Childs war 7K times

8. Reframing Ninja’s Critique “ Second Life is the land of real people who expand their lives doing real things because they love themselves so much that they turn on their PC’s to change the real world, one virtual world at a time.”

9. Rik Panganiban, Global Kids [email_address] http://www.olp.globalkids.org Second Life: Rik Riel