Star Light, Star Bright...

Welcome to the Realityworks Star, the new e-newsletter from Realityworks! We’ve taken all the Realityworks news that’s fit to print and, well, printed it to fit right here on your computer screen. Why? Because we like you! If you were in kindergarten, we’d put a star on your forehead. If you were a major motion picture or a general, we’d give you four stars. We think our customers and friends embody every cliché about stars you can shake a stick at. You’re just that bright.

The newsletter is a place where we’ll give you product support tips, talk about education and share our concern for the youth and at-risk members of our communities. We’ll relate stories about Realityworks customers, colleagues and friends like you (or stories actually about you) that we think you’ll find interesting and useful. And we can commiserate about the challenges that come with trying to make a difference every day. The newsletter will also be a great place to find best practices and success stories from Realityworks product users.

And so, whether you’re a new friend or a longtime customer, we thank our lucky star for you and look forward to our visits here in the year ahead. Pull up a mouse and nose around bit. Click on the links and see what gives. You can even read between the lines if you’d like. Then be sure to let us know what you think!

If there’s more you want to know or read about in the future, feel free to email us at pressroom@realityworks.com or call your product consultant. Tell them we sent you! They give us candy sometimes.

Happy Shiny New Year from all of Your Friends at Realityworks!

And the Baby Goes to...
2006 Share Your Story contest winner – Kathleen Vik

We love to hear about Baby’s effect on communities around the world, and we love to hear from our customers In last year’s catalog we asked you to tell us about your experience with Baby and we conducted a random drawing of entries on December 29, 2006. Kathleen Vik, a Family and Consumer Sciences teacher in Anchorage, Alaska will receive a free RealCare® Baby II-plus with Control Center software for sharing her story with us.

Kathleen uses infant simulators in her child development classes at Chugiak High School. She told us about a student who took his infant simulator to the senior prom. His weekend simulation happened to coincide with the last big dance of his high school career. Instead of asking for a babysitter, he took Baby to the ball! His classmates helped him care for Baby all night long so he could still participate in all the fun. Kathleen especially appreciated that a male student was not afraid to show off his newly acquired infant care skills outside of her classroom.

She has since kept in contact with us, and passed along an enthusiastic review of our infant simulator from the parent of one of her students.

Thanks, Kathleen!

Do you have a story to share? This year’s contest begins right now. Start spreading your news and you can be a winner, too! The prize? Our latest model infant simulator – RealCare® Baby II-plus and Control Center software - for fast, convenient programming and reporting using a personal computer. Email your story to pressroom@realityworks.com.

We’re at the Top of a Very Short List!
Realityworks receives honorable mention at
Worlddidac Conference

That’s right, Baby went to the big show in Basel, Switzerland last October and had the Realityworks booth buzzing. Worlddidac is the global trade association for the education industry. The annual exhibition, held this year in Basel, is the biggest international education conference in the world.

Meetings were held with interested distributors from such countries as Indonesia, Portugal, Germany, France, Spain and Italy, the United Kingdom and Greece; and other visitors from Israel, Taiwan, Turkey, Singapore, Oman and Jordan came to learn more about the RealCare® product line.

Realityworks entered RealCare® Baby II-plus in the product showcase; we made the shortlist, which is an honorable mention and we do indeed feel honored... Worlddidac says that products on the shortlist “represent well above average educational materials” and that the companies who produce them “should be encouraged to continue their work to the benefit of education and training worldwide.”

To make the shortlist, products had to pass the first two evaluation rounds, where criteria included usability, flexibility, eco-friendliness and educational value.

Baby’s innovative nature also drew the attention of Swiss Television at the trade show. An interview with Realityworks representatives spread the word about us and drew even more visitors to the booth.

Thanks, Worlddidac, for a great experience among the world’s best educators!

Important Customer Information
Your Baby Needs Changing... Realityworks to discontinue
support for older models

Just a reminder to customers using older model infant simulators. As of July 1, 2007, Realityworks will discontinue repair service and support for Standard Baby, Realistic Head Support Baby and the original RealCare® Baby (with contact point IDs). If you do not have a wireless model infant simulator (RealCare® Baby II or RealCare® Baby II-plus) call your Realityworks product consultant today to find out how you can get a discount toward the purchase of newer, more realistic Babies with the trade-in of your old Babies.

We’re also offering a trade-in discount toward Control Center Software for your old reporting equipment, including infrared printers and RealCare® Student Reports™ Software.

For more information about the discontinuation and to find out what you can do to keep your parenting program using infant simulators effective and efficient, click here, or call Customer Service at 1.800.830.2040 for more information. If you’re not sure which models you currently have, we can also help you make sure your Babies aren’t affected by this important change. Call us today!

Welcome to the Neighborhood
To the Baby Neighborhood, that is

Often one of the biggest challenges our customers have when ordering Babies is making their selections for gender and ethnicity. In some cases, orders are delayed because a customer or their purchasing agent failed to tell us exactly which Babies they want.

Baby comes in male or female and seven different head styles, which are a reasonable representation of the ethnic groups commonly requested by customers. To simplify these choices, Realityworks has introduced “Baby Neighborhood” – preselected groupings of Babies for an evenly balanced package that represents all of our Baby choices. Some educators prefer all of their Babies to look alike; others have two or three favorite Baby “looks.” Still others use a variety of Babies for an added lesson in diversity and acceptance.

So when you’re ordering Babies, if you don’t need a custom selection or you had hard time just picking out socks and don’t want to make anymore choices, just ask for the Baby Neighborhood. The 2007 Realityworks catalog shows a chart of the Baby Neighborhood for each package.

Product Update
FREE Update for Control Center software
Are you using Control Center software to program your RealCare® Baby II-plus infant simulators and retrieve detailed simulation reports? A FREE version update is available now from Realityworks that gives you even more control over your simulations. From the Control Center Help menu, click on “Check for Updates” for a fast, easy download of Control Center version 2.0 today. Special note: Do not uninstall your current version of Control Center for this update to work properly.

New features of Control Center 2.0:

• English and Spanish language options

Use the software in English or Spanish
View and print simulation reports in either language
Date and time are automatically formatted based on your regional settings

• “Copy-to-Clipboard” for simulation reports

Creates an image file of a report to paste into word processing software, picture editors and email

• “Get Report” function for mid-simulation reports

Check on simulations in progress when Baby is in range of Control Center

If you don’t have high-speed internet to download the update or would like to purchase the update CD please contact Customer Service at 800.830.1416 or 715.830.2040.

Product Support Tip of the Month
Look into the Lights, Carol Anne!*

RealCare® Baby II-plus uses wireless technology to communicate with Control Center software using a handy futuristic device called a “communication pod.” When the software is running, programming choices can be sent from your computer to Babies and simulation data can be downloaded from Babies to your computer, all in seconds.

So how can you visually keep track of what our highly automated Baby is doing? With blinky lights, of course! Three LED lights on Baby’s back alongside the charging port give you a fast glance at Baby’s charging and communication status.

Red Light - Power
Solid red means Baby is powered with greater than a 40 percent charge. Flashing red means Baby has less than a 40 percent charge. No red light indicates dead battery.

Green Light - Charging
Solid green means Baby is charging. Flashing green means the battery module is warming up (takes about 5-15 minutes). No green light means Baby is done charging.

Yellow Light - Communication
The yellow light will flash every 10-15 seconds to indicate that Baby’s wireless communication is working properly.

*Star Trivia Question.
Who is Carol Anne? Special bonus to the first 10 readers to reply with the correct origin for this obscure cultural reference. Email your response to pressroom@realityworks.com and include your name, organization and contact information so we can mail you your prize.

Extra! Extra!
Read all About it!
Realityworks 2007 Catalog now showing in a mailbox near you

Didn’t get yours? Egad! Call us at 1.800.830.1416 or email us today here.

Didn’t get enough? Just for you, we’ll send more.

Inside you’ll find new products, new volume discounts, convenient packs of supplies, a brand new mobile storage/charging cart and the new Shaken Baby Syndrome Simulator, coming in April.

Open your catalog today. It’s colorful, it’s informative, it has a handy little order form and it’s absolutely free!