The Virtual World of 7-10 Year-Olds: Club Penguin
With the Virtual World Conference in New York coming up in two weeks, I asked my 8-year old daughter, Rose Wax, to fill you in on Club Penguin.
Club Penguin
By: Rose Wax.
Club Penguin is a virtual world (just like Second Life) where you waddle around villages and towns and meet new people. There are places where you and friends can meet and there is a map that can teleport you to different places in the Club Penguin world. You play a penguin that has a name and when you waddle they show your name below your penguin. There’s a chat bubble so you can talk and there are icons you can talk with. There are also keyboard shortcuts that can make your penguin do dance moves and different icons. You earn coins (money) by playing games like cart surfing, pizzatron 3000, ice fishing, sled racing, mancala and find four. You buy clothes for your penguin and furniture for your igloo you can also buy puffles (penguin pet) and stuff for them. There is a newspaper that you can read it has tips and riddles and jokes and poems. Club Penguin is really popular a lot of kids and sometimes adults have accounts the more penguins there are the merrier!
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