If, unlike my avatar, yours has 8000 lindens (about US$30), you can register to take part in the Virtual Worlds: Libraries, Education and Museums conference.
“The purpose of this conference is to provide a gathering place for librarians, information professionals, educators, museologists, and others to learn about and discuss the educational, informational, and cultural opportunities of virtual worlds.” — website
The conference is in Second Life at the New Media Consortium Conference Center (NMC) on March 8 2008, and according to the website, places are filling fast.
Preliminary Conference Schedule.
March 1st, 2008
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Our very own Kathryn Greenhill has joined with CAVAL to offer one day workshops in Sydney and Melbourne on Second Life.
“Are YOU ready to “fly, teleport and change appearance at will”? Many library users are already leading mysterious double lives, but are Online Virtual Worlds an over-hyped Web 2.0 bubble or the Next Big Thing?”
Course details are available from the CAVAL website.
January 15th, 2008
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Couldn’t make it to the discussion of “The Librarians” in Second Life but wish you had?
The Transcript is here.
November 1st, 2007
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As reported in The Wired Campus, there is a new competitor for Second Life.
Kaneva is described as a cross between Facebook and a virtual world, or as one commenter said “Sims meets MySpace”. A review of Kaneva is available at metaversed, by Nick Wilson.
And you can check out the Kaneva promotional video on their home page.
August 22nd, 2007
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Journal of Information Literacy, Vol 1, No 2 (2007) has just been published. Lisa Foggo has a short article published there evaluating facilities in EduNation in Second Life as an information literacy training resource.
This paper aims to identify the value of the virtual world Second Life, and the educational facilities available in EduNation within Second Life, specifically as regards their use for information literacy in Higher Education. The author identifies potential benefits and drawbacks of Second Life and EduNation, and concludes that they do have potential value.
An evaluation of the possibilities of using Second Life’s EduNation in Information Literacy training
July 12th, 2007
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Tom Peters writes about library architecture in Second Life. It seems we humans can’t quite leave our First Life comforts completely behind when we first venture into virtual worlds. Why do we even need buildings in SL he asks…
Read the full article.
March 23rd, 2007
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It seems that Four Corners (ABC Monday 19th March 8.30pm) will be looking at Second Life. I saw it advertised on telly last night, but can’t find any information on the website.
March 15th, 2007
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