http://www.edtags.org/ http://www.edtags.org/css/EdTags.jpghttp://www.edtags.org/bookmarks.php/all/katie Recent bookmarks posted to Edtags.org 60 http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~mpepper/slbib trustteam Thu, 26 Apr 2007 06:26:58 +0000 april07 second life virtual communities katie research http://www.wired.com/gaming/virtualworlds/commentary/games/2007/04/gamesfrontiers_0423 Video-game players often hold radically different views on what constitutes cheating. Today's digital fare represents the first time we've argued about the precise meaning of cheating. trustteam Mon, 23 Apr 2007 21:56:07 +0000 april07 cheating behavior gaming katie http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/003695.shtml Lawrence Lessig is doing a series of 6 presentations on what Congress should do about Internet Policy. We may be most interested in looking at Copyright: Remix Culture, Network Neutrality, and Harmful to Minors Material. trustteam Fri, 16 Mar 2007 00:58:24 +0000 copyright february07 law katie http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2007-02-21-virtual-men_x.htm?csp=34 Males stand further away when talking to other males in the virtual world of Second Life and are less likely to keep eye contact, according to a study that shows at least one aspect of human behavior carries over into the virtual realm. The results indciate that interaction in virtual environments are governed by the same social norms as social interactions in the physical world. trustteam Fri, 16 Mar 2007 00:56:02 +0000 february07 participation research study katie http://www.henryjenkins.org/2007/03/if_you_attended_our_session_at.html This blog post provides links to Henry's "best of" posts about intellectual property, participatory culture, education, the moral panic, Wikipedia, YouTube, and Second Life. trustteam Fri, 16 Mar 2007 00:51:16 +0000 authorship credibility henry jenkins march07 participation katie http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2007-02-27-youtube-hoax_x.htm?csp=34 The Valentine's Day breakup of two North Carolina college students that featured singers, hundreds of spectators and a profanity-laced tirade was a hoax after all.Ryan Burke confessed Monday that the confrontation, which became an instant hit on YouTube.com, was all a stunt to show the power of Internet communities and the amount of money that companies make from them. The pair weren't even dating. trustteam Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:57:42 +0000 february07 participation privacy story katie fame credibility http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.03/herding.html This article is filled with stories of people cheating reputation rating systems to earn trust. It also describes Paul Resnick's research on the role of online rating systems in building trust. Resnick seems to argue for a structural approach to curbing the cheating - create powerful algorithms to force people to be trustworthy. trustteam Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:54:02 +0000 credibility march07 participation transparency trust katie cheating http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,72786-0.html?tw=rss.index We fail to Protect The Children when we react with fear & hate to the challenges inherent to interactive media, rather than teaching kids to think critically about what they encounter. We do students a disservice when we provide them with teachers who aren't equipped with the skills to incorporate computers and the internet into education. trustteam Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:50:56 +0000 february07 moral panic katie school http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=1909 Essjay was a trusted, credible Wikipedia editor/contributor, but it turns out that he fabricated his identity. He's not really a tenured professor but a 24 year-old who has never taught a class before. This raises questions of identity, credibility, transparency on open source collaborations such as Wikipedia. trustteam Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:46:04 +0000 credibility identity march07 transparency katie trust essjay wikipedia http://edtags.org/uploads/community/contributor_to_wikipedia_has_his_fictional_side_030507.doc A follow up article about the disgraced Wikipedia administrator named Essjay. He presented himself as a tenured professor when he was really a 20 something with a BA. His contributions to the Wikipedia community were of high quality trustteam Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:44:21 +0000 credibility identity march07 transparency trust katie wikipedia essjay story http://edtags.org/uploads/community/nytimes_031207_wikipedia.doc Another follow up article about the Wikipedia editor, Essjay, who lied about his credentials. The article discusses Wikipedia's response, which is to verify credentials. This is causing a debate within the Wikipedia community between credentials as a basis of trust vs. quality as a basis of trust. trustteam Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:42:30 +0000 credibility march07 trust katie wikipedia story essjay http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7181398 Microsoft raised eyebrows in December when it offered free laptops to some of the bloggers who review their products. Journalist and blogger Scott Kirsner discusses the ethical choice bloggers have to make in his op-ed that appeared in Sunday's San Jose Mercury News. trustteam Thu, 15 Feb 2007 03:19:05 +0000 february07 transparency blogging katie http://nymag.com/news/features/27341/index.html Author's quote: "we’re living in frontier country right now." Clay Shirky & danah boyd are quoted in the article. The author argues that 3 major changes define today's teens: 1) they think of themselves as having an audience 2) they're archiving their adolescence 3) they have a thicker skin than we do. trustteam Thu, 08 Feb 2007 06:33:14 +0000 behavior february07 identity katie privacy http://www.slate.com/id/2157435/fr/rss/ This blog entry argues that we react so intensely against plagiarism for 2 primary reasons: 1) we value originality & creativity (that's why we tolerate Shakespeare's creative "copying") 2) we value a just distribution of labor (it's not fair for someone to get credit for someone else's hard work). Other considerations: our market economy values individualism; Americans value myth of hard work. trustteam Thu, 08 Feb 2007 06:27:35 +0000 january07 katie ownership plagiarism http://www.demos.co.uk/publications/theirspace Demos is a British think tank for democracy. They released a report on 1/11/07 called Their Space: Education for a Digital Generation. They used interviews, focus groups, & youth diaries to collect data on how youth are using NDM. They identified different "types" of digital media users: Digital Pioneers, Creative Producers, Everyday Communicators, and Information Gatherers. trustteam Thu, 08 Feb 2007 06:26:31 +0000 january07 katie digital youth