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Digital Youth Network: Empowering Youth Through Media. Games for Good. Review of the game Endless Ocean created by Arika Rating: Endless Ocean is a one-player adventure game for the Nintendo Wii. My Opinion To be honest, personally, I actually quite enjoyed this game – much more than the star rating that I gave it indicates. In fact, I managed to play it right through to the end of the narrative, right through to the discovery of a new species of whale! The reason for the low star rating is that I do not think many game players would persevere with the game. The biggest problem with the game is the opening tutorials.

I am glad that I did though. The Narrative In the game, you are a scuba diver. Above: Getting up-close-and-personal with a whale in the game Endless Ocean. There is also a story that unfolds around the legends of the Manurai Sea and about the past of your diving assistant. You receive missions to complete such as taking people on tour dives, taking underwater photos and visiting previously undiscovered areas of the Manurai Sea. Designed for affect. The Declaration of Digital Citizenship. IROC2 is very proud of The Declaration of Digital Citizenship. We are especially excited as this document continues to gain International acknowledgment and has most recently been translated into Czechoslovakian. Recent Endorsement: When I first read the Declaration of Digital Citizenship, I realized that The Institute for Responsible Online and Cell-Phone Communication and Projecto MiudosSegurosNa.Net shared a common ground: we both recognize the huge beneficial potencial of information and communication technologies and we're equally aware of it's potencial for abuse.

As a result, both organizations strive to promote the ethical, responsible and safe use of information and communication technologies by kids and teens. That said, I decided that the Declaration of Digital Citizenship should be translated and made available in other languages, namely Portuguese, since Projecto MiudosSegurosNa.Net helps Portuguese speaking families, schools and communities. . - Tito de Morais. Turn Things Around.