Woogi World Screen
My son and daughter love this game and best of all the sign-up is free.
Here is the link for Woogiworld.com:
Woogi
WoogiWorld is a virtual world (pretend world) where kids choose a little character who competes with other Woogis in their Woogi World. Kids can build and decorate a house (woogiwam) for their little Woogi. Kids earn coins and buy stuff for the Woogi.
My kids love the interactive feature of the game-in other words-they can not only text message each other but also other new ‘woogi’ friends. WoogiWorld is very much like another on-line game site out there for kids (you know the one that is run by the big “D” corporation) but with this one has more control. My son got bored with Funkeys very quickly because the computer game does not give him the chance to play with other kids. He had this little character alone on the planet and really could only run from the bad guys.
What makes Woogi safe:
1- Parents can o.k. their kids’ account set-up and control the time of day plus the number of hours a day a kid can spend in Woogi World. Nintendo DS are you listening?
2-Parents can see a history log of all chat messages exchanged between your kids and the other Woogis. If I were you, I would check in from time to time to see who the kids are messaging.
3-Woogi has the safe word chat message feature-what that means is that if a kid tried to type a dirty word then the computer “spell checks” the entry and will not display the offensive words. The site even filters out words that were never meant to be “dirty” but somehow became that way over time.
4-Kids have to go through an on-line Internet training about Internet safety before they can play and after the parents approve the kid account. This Woogi character is on the screen ‘training’ the kids not to share home addresses, email addresses, names, ages, favorites, dislikes. In fact, whenever I am in the room I hear the little warnings about what not to do as the kids are playing on Woogi World. The voice is a little creepy but my son does remind me from time to time to not share our street address with anyone.
5-And best of all…Free EDUCATIONAL, EDUCATIONAL, EDUCATIONAL Games!(yes, I am shouting) This month Woogiworld.com will start a reading incentive program on the site called the WoogiReaders Club.
My only little issue with Woogi World is that I find it very difficult to use the “play with your child” feature. I, the parent, seem to click and click and nothing happens but my kids seem to understand everything (maybe I am getting old). Also, like all game sites you do have to pay a montly fee to upgrade and add extra stuff but the basic “free” game is just fine.
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