Posted in Laura P. Thomas, Uncategorized on Dec 31st, 2008
This is part of a series of posts looking at virtual worlds targeted toward kids.
A commenter on my Handipoints review here asked if I’d heard of another world called SecretBuilders. His child’s teacher had mentioned it, but he was concerned about the safety. (Teachers seem to have been early PR targets during the world’s testing [...]
Posted in Laura P. Thomas, Uncategorized on Oct 26th, 2008
This is part of a series of posts looking at virtual worlds targeted toward kids.
Augmentation or immersion? It’s a popular debate among the virtual world crowd. Do people enjoy virtual worlds for the escapism they can allow when you fully immerse yourself into another character? Or, do virtual worlds simply augment your current life by [...]
Posted in Laura P. Thomas, Uncategorized on Oct 13th, 2008
This is part of a series of posts looking at virtual worlds targeted toward kids.
The latest stop on our kid-focused virtual worlds safari took us to a world of cute dinosaurs. Dinokids was a major sponsor of the recent Virtual Worlds Conference & Expo, so I not only got their promotional cards in my conference [...]
Posted in Laura P. Thomas, Uncategorized on Sep 30th, 2008
This is part of a series of posts looking at virtual worlds targeted toward kids.
As with nearly all things Disney, when they embraced the technology of virtual worlds, they did it in a big way. Not that it was without a bumpy start, mind you. Their earliest venture into the space called ToonTown launched way [...]
Posted in Laura P. Thomas, Uncategorized on Sep 2nd, 2008
This is part of a series of posts looking at virtual worlds targeted toward kids.
Following my recent post here on the virtual world of Webkinz, there seemed to be some interest in taking a look at other virtual worlds targeted toward children. These are more often 2.5D, rather than true 3D, environments. At last year’s [...]
Posted in Laura P. Thomas, Uncategorized on Aug 8th, 2008
It all started simply enough when a cute little pink pony arrived by mail last year sometime soon after my daughter’s birthday. It was a present from her cousin Jonah whom she adores. His mom explained to me that it was a Webkinz, which meant it came with a web site where you put in [...]
