Saturday, July 17, 2010

Club Penguin goes EDUCATIONAL :)

In a  Newspaper article from UK this Article was found:

If you want a lot of fun while you’re learning, join our Club :)

Saraapril :)

Disney is to bring learning to Club Penguin, the popular children's website, in an ambitious plan to create a ''21st century Sesame Street'' (Alexi Mostrous writes).

Three million British Children and more than 20 million worldwide play Club Penguin, a virtual world created in 2005 by a Canadian father and bought by the media conglomerate for $700 million in 2007. Players use virtual penguin alter-egos to ''waddle around and meet new friends''. Children can chat with friends, join ice hockey games or start online snowball fights!

In two months' time they will be rewarded for completing games designed to test their verbal and mathematical skills. ''It's going to take learning within a virtual space to a whole new level,'' said Lane Merrifield, Club Penguin's founder, who now oversees development of all Disney's online games.

The aim is to mimic Sesame Street, the American children's television show that incorporates educational elements. It is also a canny tactic to allay parents' worries about their children spending too much time online. ''If my child was going to sit down in front of a TV screen, I'd sooner have them watching Sesame Street,'' Mr Merrifield said.

Details are being kept under wraps, but he is determined to keep things fun: ''One of the mandates I gave was that there's no chocolate-covered broccoli. If we're going to do learning, [we have to] recognise that learning can just be chocolate.''

Thanks to A11766 for this information :)

So Club Penguin will Expand the Learning in the Games COOL :) Now it will be almost IMPOSSIBLE for Parents to say NO if you want to Play in Club Penguin…LOL :) I wonder if this Learning ONLY will be available for Members or for EVERYONE? We already have Three Paint by Letters Books and my Guess is that the NEW Feature the Stamps that will be here July 26 2010 will be used in the NEW EDUCATIONAL Club Penguin too :) I LOVE MATH so this will be so Much FUN! BUT what is Billybob’s problem with broccoli? I LOVE to snack on raw broccoli dipped in salsa that is so YUMMY and broccoli is so cute they looks like small Trees :)

Saraapril :)

…BUT I have NEVER tried broccoli TOGETHER with Chocolate I think I will do that right now…LOL :)

Community Tree in Club Penguin :) Lane Merrifield interviewed :)

6 comments:

  1. Thanks for sharing with us! I definite have to put such news like this on my blog - can you give me some place to find the article instead of copying word by word from your blog?

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  2. i think this is cool that cp will have learning but billybob doesn't have a problem with broccoli what he is saying is that when learning comes to cp your going to know your learning and they are not going to try to disguise it like chocolate covered broccoli where you wouldn't know your eating broccoli.

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  3. this might ruin cp, like it having only scho ol clothes and no parties and no black puffles and orange puffles *sobs* and the psa could be nothing anymore... i should of seen this comin when they put other spaces on the elite gear store thing

    -Tux99999

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  4. I think this so bad. But I will continue plaing CP anyways.

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  5. I think this make CP a little boring. But I will still play CP anyways.

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  6. I really like school, so this will be a possessive thing for me! LOL...I like chocolate, AND broccoli, but they do NOT sound good together!

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