Rivkah WC's List: DGL Vocabulary

• There are two key features to the blog: links, and comments.
• Blogging, above all else, is conversational.
• It is about process, not product
• And blogging is personal and informal – often difficult for journa
• lists who have been trained for years to be objective and removed from their stories.

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• A blog is basically a journal that is available on  the we

• What Is Blogging?
• A web log, oft

• A viral video is a video that becomes popular through the process of Internet sharing, typically through video sharing websites, social media and email.
• Some eyewitness events have also been caught on video and have "gone viral"
• With the proliferation of camera phones, many videos are being shot by amateurs on these devices

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    Copyright Basics

• The Digital Age presents new challenges to
• undamental copyright doctrines that are legal cornerstones of library services.
• Copyright issues are among the most hotly contested issues in the legal and legislative world

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• A database is a collection of information organized to provide efficient retrieval.

• A database is a tool for collecting and organizing information.
• Many databases start as a list in a word-processing program or spreadsheet
• A computerized database is a container of objects. One database can contain more than one table

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• You can think of a database as an electronic filing system
• Traditional databases are organized by fields, records, and files
• Increasingly, the term database is used as shorthand for database management system.

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• 1) placing individual actions and decisions in the context of ethical consequences, and 2) immersing individuals in their culture's enduring vocabularies of commitment.

• The definition of academic integrity is fulfilling your academic requirements with trust and being honest about your responsibilities.
• If you have academic integrity, you don't cheat on tests and you don't plagiarize.

• Academic   integrity essentially means "intellectual honesty": honesty   in the use of information, in formulating arguments, and in other activities   related to the pursuit of knowledge and understanding.
• we are entitled to a wide degree   of freedom in the pursuit of scholarly interests. With that freedom,   however, comes the responsibility to uphold the high ethical standards   of academic conduct.
• "a   commitment, even in the face of adversity, to five fundamental   values: honesty, trust, fairness, respect, and responsibility."

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• Collaboration is a working practice whereby individuals work together to a common purpose to achieve business benefit.
• Collaboration relies on openness and knowledge sharing but also some level of focus and accountability on the part of the business organization.

• To work together, especially in a joint intellectual effort.
• To cooperate treasonably, as with an enemy occupation force in one's country.

• the Internet remains largely unregulated and the policies governing it underdeveloped.
• Laws concerning online privacy are still being developed.
• To date, the U.S. Supreme Court largely has taken a hands-off approach to regulating the Internet and online privacy in favor of free speech.  However, the federal government is increasingly interested in regulating the Internet, for example through child pornography and gambling laws
• Knowing how to navigate the Internet safely is essential to maintaining your privacy online.

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