To capitalize on the tremendous popularity of social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook, several new "safe" social networking sites been launched to address security concerns, reports eSchool ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

The mysterious spots began popping up without explanation on the digital faces of Whyvillians. At first, the spots looked like freckles on the cartoonlike avatars of visitors to the science education ...

The mysterious spots began popping up without explanation on the digital faces of Whyvillians. At first, the spots looked like freckles on the cartoon-like avatars of visitors to the science education ...

The mysterious spots began popping up without explanation on the digital faces of Whyvillians. At first, the spots looked like freckles on the cartoonlike avatars of visitors to the science education ...

Numedeon Inc., creator of the popular Whyville online world for tweens and teens, has announced the opening of a Bankinter virtual branch to help teach kids about the basics of finance. “We are ...

Alexis Bauer would make Al Gore proud. The 12-year-old Buffalo Grove girl is not only making friends in a virtual world dedicated to getting kids in on the debate about the issue of global warming, ...

Marketer buzz around such adult-facing virtual worlds as Second Life has cooled, but brands like Virgin Records, Penguin Books and even the University of Texas Health Science Center have found success ...

Yesterday I had the pleasure of conversing with Whyville.net founder, James Bower. If you are not familiar with Whyville, it is an educational virtual world created for kids, launched in 1999. Players ...

The virtual world Whyville has undertaken a novel approach to educating kids about the dangers of influenza and the preventative measures that can be taken to protect from it: giving users virtual flu ...

I was one hour into my life in Whyville, the virtual world for 8- to 15-year-olds, and I was faced with a fashion emergency. My avatar, Heffy7 (a combo of my nickname and the soccer number I had as a ...