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

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

3. 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

4. Whyvillians Meet a VIP for Discussion at the Greek Theatre

5. Ion Engine Design © numedeon, inc. 2006

6. Whyville Beach © numedeon, inc. 2006

7. 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

8. numedeon inc. © numedeon, inc. 2006 Whyville Census - 2007  Page Views: 1 Billion  Visits: 35-40 Million  Monthly Hours Per Unique User: 3.5  Total Hours Spent: 5 Million  Chat Phrases Spoken: 500 Million  Educational games played: 8.5 million

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

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

11. Whyville Planeworks

12. OUTREACH CAREER SIMULATION Career Pipelines JOBSJOBS Schools for biotechnolog y Schools for advanced manufacturing

13. Whyville Planeworks

14. © numedeon, inc. 2004 Whyville Biotech

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

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

21. 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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23. www.davinci-minds.com cliffz@davinci-minds.com

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