Kids today!
Big news, for the kid-lets and kiddles:
BBC plans online children’s world
A virtual world which children can inhabit and interact with is being planned by the BBC.
CBBC, the channel for 7-12 year olds, said it would
allow digitally literate children the access to characters and
resources they had come to expect.
Users would be able to build an online presence, known as an avatar, then create and share content.
I am slightly jealous.
Bosses said CBBC World would not have the financial aspects of other online worlds such as Second Life.
It is expected to go live in the summer with a full launch in the autumn to coincide with the CBBC relaunch.
I’m a tad more jealous: it’s gonna be cost-free (and I very much like that free) and free of all the stuff I don’t like about Second Life, which is mostly the adults and their “creativity”. I doubt there’ll be ways to make genitalia for the kids.
-Bea Whale
Tags: BBC, Second+Life, kids
