links for 2009-06-03

Phoenix police arrested a 20-year-old man Monday on suspicion of raping an unconscious woman live on the Internet.

...bloggers may want to prepare themselves for what is coming, whatever exactly that is. "We're going to be learning more ourselves about exactly how the technology is going to work" in about two weeks, Bridis said.

"[The] core reason an abortion/slavery comparison falls down lay in the actions of the enslaved, versus the inability of action amongst embryos. Abortion is a debate between two groups over the ultimate fate of embryos. The Anti-Slavery fight was a violent struggle between two groups over the fate of the enslaved, but with the enslaved as indispensable actors. Unlike embryos, black people were very capable of expressing their thoughts about their own personhood, and never held it in much doubt. Whereas the fight against abortion begins with pro-lifers asserting the rights of embryos, the fight against slavery doesn't begin with the abolitionists, but with the Africans themselves who resisted. "

While the interactive style could be fun, Ms. Cheal’s students [enrolled in her the Second Life course] worried they were having too much fun.

In her recently published study, “Student Perceptions of a Course Taught in Second Life,” Ms. Cheal wrote that the 15 undergraduate students enrolled in the course raised concerns that too much “play” in the assignments inhibited learning. The students also cited problems with the program’s slow speed and with challenges acclimating to virtual life.

Although Ms. Cheal admits that the sample size was small, she warns others to be careful when designing new courses that may use a similar approach.

Just a few months after the Recording Industry Association of America began offering a curriculum for teaching copyright law, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has released a curriculum of its own. LINKS TO BOTH