Ohio’s NBC4 just ran a segment on Cyberbullying, and how WILL’s new program It’s Your Call is helping educate teens on appropriate cell phone use: “I’ve seen it in both the middle and high school,” Sturtevant said. “Pictures of students in compromising positions, or in clothes that are more revealing than they should be, where [...]
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WILL has won a pair of Horizon Interactive Awards: WILL Campus – Best Education Website, Silver Partnering to Heal – Best Training/Instructional Video, Gold From their website: The Horizon Interactive Award recognizes some of the top work from around the globe. Whether you are a freelancer, creative or advertising agency, you can gain valuable exposure [...]
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Brian Nadel, writing for the Tech Tools section on Scholastic.com has rated WILL’s new Campus as an ‘A-’ : Video games with elaborate simulations of alternate realities that deal with detailed subject matter are generally reserved for battling aliens or car thieves on video games like “Grand Theft Auto” and “Dead Space.” Now, they’re also [...]
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WILL Interactive has been awarded two Communicator Awards by the International Academy of the Visual Arts. WILL Interactive’s The High Ground was awarded the Award of Excellence for the category of Best Interactive Multimedia -Training; whereas It’s Your Call was awarded the Award of Distinction for the category of Best Interactive Multimedia – Gaming or [...]
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T.H.E. Journal has a piece entitled What’s Your Game Plan?, which explores bringing video games into the classroom: Teachers worried about how they would integrate the game into the curriculum and whether it could motivate students who often fell asleep in class. The IT staff wondered whether DimensionM would overwhelm the district’s computer network. Administrators [...]
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The New Patriot News is running a story about WILL’s current production, a new interactive movie for the U.S. Army that focuses on ethical decision making: A soldier in Iraq is getting valuable intelligence information from a clan leader with whom he has cultivated a relationship, when he hears screams in the leader’s enclave that [...]
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Last night CBS affiliate WUSA 9 ran a story about ‘sexting’, and the new program that WILL Interacive is developing in partnership with Verizon and Web Wise Kids to help combat this risky behavior:
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Serious Games Source and Gamasutra have both reposted CEO Sharon Sloane‘s recent opinion piece about the current debate over the Columbine RPG. Recent controversy surrounding this year’s Slamdance Guerrilla Gamemaker Competition and the Super Columbine Massacre Role Playing Game incited a debate and raised important questions. The commotion has subsided, but we will see this [...]
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Potomac, MD: WILL Interactive, Inc., the Potomac, MD-based leader in virtual experience behavior modification gaming and recipient of the National Training and Simulation Association (NTSA) ‘2006 Best Serious Game’ award, in partnership with the Public Charter School Student Support Center (SSC), known for their work in substance abuse and violence prevention in urban schools serving [...]
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The Lexington Herald-Leader writes an article about WILL’s Generation Rx: “Prescription drug abuse, a major problem in Eastern Kentucky, has now become a national public health issue, Mathews said. ‘Through this new interactive program, we now hope to lead the nation in demonstrating a new way to involve teenagers in avoiding future drug abuse,’ he [...]
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