The LearningBased Virtual World Teacher Workshop Cliff Zintgraff

The Learning-Based Virtual World Teacher Workshop Cliff Zintgraff CEO, Da. Vinci Minds, Inc. © 2008 Numedeon, Inc. Career Exploration in Whyville An intrinsically interesting environment to teach kids something.

Welcome to the Whyville Teacher Workshop Our goals: 1. Learn a lot about Whyville 2. Learn more about gaming in the classroom

Welcome to the Whyville Teacher Workshop We will: 1. Do a Whyville primer 2. Visit lots of places in Whyville 3. Review free lesson plans 4. Make you think

Whyvillians Meet a VIP for Discussion at the Greek Theatre

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Learning-based virtual world for teens and tweens 150, 000 unique users a month, 3. 3 million served since 1999. Its own newspaper, economy, government Educational games in math, science, journalism, art, government and economics

numedeon inc. Whyville Census - 2007 Ø Page Views: 1 Billion Ø Visits: 35 -40 Million Ø Monthly Hours Per Unique User: 3. 5 Ø Total Hours Spent: 5 Million Ø Chat Phrases Spoken: 500 Million © numedeon, inc. 2006 Ø Educational games played: 8. 5 million

They progress and stay for a long time 0 clams 20 clams 50 clams 80 clams © numedeon, inc. 2003 100 clams

Where We’ll Go in Whyville 1. 2. 3. 4. Login as a guest Whyville Plane. Works Whyville Bioplex Trade up? Get an account 5. (Lesson plan review) 6. Bankinter 7. Why. Eat 8. Scion Pit Stop 9. Whyville Robotics 10. The Whyville Texas Challenge

Whyville Planeworks

OUTREACH CAREER Schools for advanced SIMULATIONmanufacturing Career Pipelines Schools for biotechnology OUTREACH J O B S

Whyville Planeworks

Whyville Biotech © numedeon, inc. 2004

Lesson Plans Go to www. innology. com/downloads • At the bottom of the list – Whyville. Lesson. Plans. zip

Whyville Robotics with the Texas Institute for Educational Robotics (TIER), Northwest Vista College, San Antonio

DATA to Date Total Texas Students • 200+ active classes ALL OVER TEXAS • ~1, 000 students • 7, 100 have completed activities • 1, 600 have clicked through to educational opportunities Game Statistics • 91, 000 completing activities • 5, 108 vaccine sales • 6, 000 plane contracts won

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The Learning-Based Virtual World Teacher Workshop © 2008 Numedeon, Inc. Career Exploration in Whyville An intrinsically interesting environment to teach kids something.