Transcript Product Overview - Career Cruising

Product Overview
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April 20,
About ccSpark!
ccSpark! is Career Cruising’s new
elementary career development product,
which helps young students learn about
social skills, life planning, careers and their
personal strengths and interests. ccSpark!’s
interactive learning environment has been
thoughtfully designed to engage and inspire
students to learn more about this important
curriculum area.
ccSpark! Career Development Curriculum
Throughout each grade, ccSpark! units cover US career, educational and counseling guidelines
and standards including the National Career Development Guidelines (NCDG) and American
School Counselor Association (ASCA) competencies, and additionally support the Common
Core Standards initative.
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ccSpark! Unit Approach
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ccSpark! career development curriculum is achieved as students complete each of
the 7 units per grade.
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In each unit, the student plays a Sparkdale episode and returns to SparkCentral to
play an online activity that extends in-game career development learning and
helps to build the student’s profile.
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Units also include extension activities that can be done without the computer
Let’s visit Sparkdale.
At the heart of ccSpark! is Sparkdale, a role-playing-game that adapts to the child’s
curricular needs in an age-appropriate manner.
Sparkdale is just like a real town, only a lot more wacky and whimsical! Designed to
meet the curriculum needs of young students, Sparkdale is an active, imaginative
world that children can hardly wait to explore. They develop a sense of community
and learn how everyone has a special role to play. Full of appealing characters,
small surprises and fascinating places, Sparkdale brings elements of the real world
right into the classroom to enhance the learning experience.
In addition to playing Sparkdale
game episodes, students` in-game
achievements are stored in
SparkCentral, where students build
a personal profile completed
through a series of online activities
Grade 3, Unit 1 Curriculum & Sparkdale Content
Curriculum Objectives
• GOAL PS1 Develop Positive Self-Concept
• GOAL CM3 Locate and Use Career Information
Unit One Teacher Guide includes In Class Discussion and Activity Suggestions to support
learning goals.
Episode Name: Potato Prowler Problem
For Sparkdale farmer Mr Smith, yesterday
began like any other day. He awoke to the
sound of her rooster, Doodle, then headed to
the barn to feed the cows. Passing his potato
patch, he discovered a strange prowler
listening to the potatoes with a stethoscope!
Anyone with any information on this man or
where he belongs should contact Scoop
Gonzalez as soon as possible.
SparkCentral:
Unit 1 Online Activities & Profile Building
Following completion of the Potato Prower Episode, students visit
SparkCentral and are asked questions that reflecton on in-game learning and
begin to build their personal profile.
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Student answers a question about the episode Ie. What do you think Dr
Angie likes about her job?
Answer which best matches you! [NOTE: this is not final copy]
• School clubs I belong to ___________
• My Sports I like playing these sports (check each box that applies): ie.
baseball, basketball, soccer, running, gymnastics, other______
• My favorite subjects are (check each box that applies): english, math,
phys-ed, other_________
• My favourite things to do are (check each box that applies)
Music: listening, I play_______ instrument
Creative: making crafts, painting, other ________
Games: board games, video games, other ________
A personal learning journey.
• ccSpark! is a personal journey for each student. Their
SparkCentral portfolio lets students safely record and
explore their reflections, ideas and experiences.
Immersive online learning environment.
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ccSpark! is a fully integrated, comprehensive online learning environment.
Additional to interactive educational activities, ccSpark!’s easy-to-navigate website
includes an age-appropriate Learning Style assessment quiz.
SparkCentral online activities extend the lessons learned in Sparkdale and inspire
each student to realize their own potential.
Supporting teachers and engaging parents.
• To support blended learning models,
ccSpark! career development learning is
further extended through discussion guides
and classroom activity suggestions in the
‘Teacher Guide’
• A ‘For Parents’ section further supports age
appropriate career development learning.
Top design team.
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Career Cruising is working with a fabulous team of creative and technical experts to
produce ccSpark!, each with a deep background in developing rich educational and
interactive school age experiences.
ccSpark!’s core game design is being lead by Carla Fisher, a doctoral candidate at
Teachers College, Columbia University, where she studies technology and its
relationship with human cognition and development, particularly as it applies to
children and games. Carla has produced interactive games for Sesame Workshop, PBS
KIDS, and Highlights for Children. Carla’s creative contribution to ccSpark! is supported
by Anne Richards who has developed many high-profile preschool series, including
Bear in the Big Blue House and The Book of Pooh for Disney Channel and It's a Big Big
World for PBS KIDS. Anne has also worked extensively as a creative consultant for
companies including Discovery Kids, MGM and the BBC.
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ccSpark!’s technical development lead is Toronto based Incubator Games, headed
by Radek Koncewicz, CEO and Creative Lead. The company’s founders have led
technical development and production for numerous game projects, and have a
portfolio that includes three E-Learning products launched for the Science Alberta
Foundation: Kelvin's Space Ranch, The CO2 Connection, and VR Pipeline. In
addition to E-Learning products, Incubator Games have extensive experience
working with children’s games such as Pixar’s Cars (mobile), Critter Crunch
(mobile), HOMM: Clash of Heroes (Nintendo DS), Pirates of the Carribean: At
Worlds End (mobile), Jimmy TwoShoes (mobile and Flash-based web), and Shake
and Spell 3D (iOS).
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ccSpark! is scheduled to launch Grades 3-5 units for September 1st and roll the K-2
units out in the fall.
Special Offer Details
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ccSpark! will be available September 1, 2012
$250 / year / school instead of our regular price of $499 / school / year
Price freeze to lock this price for two years
Offer expires April 30, 2012
Product Overview
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April 20,