While this website is not free, you can sign up for a monthly account for as little as $2.99 and the first month is free or $29.99 for a year's subscription (two months free).
Key features include:
- Members write and receive digital postcards from children around the world, learning about their new friends' cultures and daily lives. To ensure security, kids communicate via an avatar, while adults can approve their children's Pen Pals and monitor communications.
- Postcards automatically translate into seven different languages - English, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, French, Italian and German - so children across the globe can participate.
- Six interactive games are based on culture, world history and geography...'edu-tainment'... learning and fun. Designed for a range of ages and skills, they include:
- Trivial Travails! Compete IN REAL TIME against three other players, answering fast-paced questions about history, geography, and related subjects.
- Fare Fair! Help customers choose a meal that is native to their country while learning to recognize foreign words, foods and currencies.
- Through an exclusive partnership with Encyclopaedia Britannica for Kids, subscribers enjoy direct online access to this vast library of information, filtered to be appropriate for children.
- The secure online environment offers built-in parental controls, is fully compliant with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), and earned the TRUSTe seal of safety.
