Digital characters in virtual worlds like Second Life whose income drops because they have been defamed should be able to seek redress in a real court, according to an article published in the current issue of the Brooklyn Law Review.
The Open Content Alliance has corporate sponsors of its own, but it seems to be emerging as an alternative for librarians who aren’t comfortable with the role of corporations in distributing public-domain material.
Leading commercial copyright owners (“Copyright Owners”) and services providing user-uploaded and user-generated audio and video content (“UGC Services”) have collaborated to establish these Principles to foster an online environment that promotes the promises and benefits of UGC Services and protects the rights of Copyright Owners.
The anonymity afforded by virtual worlds also offers teens the opportunity to break out of whatever labels they may have been given in the offline world. If you're overweight in real life, your avatar can be svelte. If you're shy, you can still be the most popular avatar in the world.
A report from Princeton, N.J.-based ETS found that the majority of high school and college students lack the proper critical thinking skills when it comes to researching online and using sources. The tests measured students' abilities to overcome three challenges they typically have: identify trustworthy and useful info; manage overabundant information; communicate information effectively.
School resource officers, many of whom are city police officers stationed at the schools, say that tips on crimes can sometimes be gleaned from photos and content on social networking web sites. In some cases, students have been investigated and arrested.
The new site features a tutorial for teachers on conducting better Web searches. Other tools include Google Earth, three-dimensional mapping software based on satellite imagery; SketchUp, a 3-D software program that lets students design buildings and explore geometric concepts; Google Book Search, which finds books that match students’ search terms; blog and photo-sharing software; and word-processing applications that allow students to work simultaneously on the same document from different computers.
Google wants its vast network to become a storehouse of software applications and personal information for millions of people no longer tethered to a single computer. That ambition already has triggered alarms among privacy experts worried about so much personal information being entrusted to a single business.
In what is believed to be one of the largest computer security breaches ever at a U.S. school, a hacker broke into a UCLA database containing the names, Social Security numbers, and other personal information of some 800,000 current and prospective students, school officials said Dec. 12.
As students continue to use and develop networked environments, it may become the case that the status of being admitted into a community by its members exceeds the credibility gained through “outside” peer review. As this process evolves, we may see a broader transformation in which learning becomes a process of participation in a community rather than of receiving knowledge from an “expert”.
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Digital characters in virtual worlds like Second Life whose income drops because they have been defamed should be able to seek redress in a real court, according to an article published in the current issue of the Brooklyn Law Review.
The anonymity afforded by virtual worlds also offers teens the opportunity to break out of whatever labels they may have been given in the offline world. If you're overweight in real life, your avatar can be svelte. If you're shy, you can still be the most popular avatar in the world.
Google wants its vast network to become a storehouse of software applications and personal information for millions of people no longer tethered to a single computer. That ambition already has triggered alarms among privacy experts worried about so much personal information being entrusted to a single business.
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