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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A recent article in Voice of America News details the rising importance of ‘serious’ video games: Young people in the United States start playing video games as early as age four or five. Often the amount of time they spend at the games causes parents to be concerned. But now parents may have to encourage [...]
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Danger Close has won the 2010 Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) CODiE Award for Best Workforce Training Solution. From their website: The CODiE Awards, originally called the Excellence in Software Awards, were established in 1986 by the Software Publishers Association (SPA), now the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), so that pioneers of the [...]
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Training Magazine has published a new article by WILL CEO Sharon Sloane: Challenge Imagine you are a non-commissioned officer (NCO) preparing for combat in a U.S. military operation and a new and unseasoned officer has joined your ranks. As a leader of your squad, it is your responsibility to be the proper buffer between the [...]
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‘Danger’ on the screen means safety in the field at Sill September 20, 2009 The Lawton Constitution BY MITCH MEADOR Fort Sill soldiers recently participated in the making of WILL Interactive Inc.’s newest training simulation, “Danger Close.” According to Sharon Sloane, CEO of the Washington, D.C.-based enterprise, “Danger Close” was shot here over a three-week [...]
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WILL’s Sharon Sloane and USNA’s Elizabeth Holmes co-wrote the article “Using Gaming Technology to Teach Ethical Decision-Making” which was published in the September-October 2009′s issue of Educational Technology magazine. “The authors describe the steps in the ethical decision-making process and show how employers and educators are addressing ethical gray areas using innovative simulations in order [...]
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This week ABC 27 News (Harrisburg, PA) had a feature on WILL Interactive’s current production at Fort Indiantown Gap:
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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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