Saturday in class it was mentioned that there was a website like Second Life that was directed towards kids. While I was doing some research this week I came across a website that may fit his description. It is called "whyville.net". I haven’t played around with it a lot yet, but the website describes it as being a safe social networking site. The site has some very cool safeguards. The one that I found to be very intriguing was that for a child to use the site they have to pass a trial time of appropriate use and have to get parental permission and verification of age.
The site is designed for children ages 8-15 and educators can get accounts. It gives individuals who use the site the opportunity to chat, play games and do small experiments. It may be worth checking out, since sites like myspace, facebook and friendster get amazing hits from middle school and high school students. This may be a way to use something that already interests them to assist them in their learning.
Another site is "imbee.com". I haven’t looked at that one at all.
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