Presenters: Kelly Mendoza, Renee Hobbs, Sherri Hope Culver, and Barbara Walkosz
A group called Tobacco Education and Media (TEAM) created an online gaming Web site that explains to youth how movies have actors smoke in movies and teaches them to discern why a certain actor is smoking and what the directors are trying to say. The way they made it interactive is that the game has the youth create their own movie, teaching the kids skills such as script-writing and blocking. (www.team.considerthisusa.org)

The next example was from My Pop Studio. They created this site to teach young girls about pop culture and what messages are being sent. (www.mypopstudio.com)

The speakers hope to cover these topics in this Workshop:

1. Edu-tainment
   - keep the kids' interest
   - keep the site fresh
   
   
2. Creating Community
   - chat rooms and comments work, but needs monitoring
   - kids like to accumulate points... so keeping a High Score was an addition
   
   
3. Implementation
   - (Not sure they had enough time to get to this.)