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The One-Look Virus and Immersive Environments for Teaching and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SL will take longer to gel into a cohesive environment that has a purpose and a following than the explosive growth experienced by WOW. Six worlds, avatars, lots of chat and even then screens receiving video for. web geeks and cardboard cutout avatars. ve found the environment elaborately constructed but humanly forbidding.

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Legal Education in Networked World: Berkman Center Discussion

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

At Harvard Law School in real life via the Berkman Center, there was an fascinating discussion tonight called " Legal education in a networked world." It was also interesting that when they video projected the Second Life environment on the screen, all of us avatars got very tame. no dancing, piano playing or flying.

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Live Blog: Is Technology Really Good for Human Rights

Amy Sample Ward

Nor does it require that we leave our human faculties at the on switch – the internet democratizes the channels. These are sophisticated attacks and as the regimes become more sophisticated in espionage methods, people engaged in human rights will have to live in a new threat environment. Do we want to keep you?

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