Do We Need a Second Life?
Library and Information Services in a Virtual World
Wednesday,
17 October 2007, 5:45-6:45pm and 7:15-8:15pm
Simmons College, GSLIS Tech Lab, 2nd Floor of Building #5 at Simmons College, Boston, MA
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Join us for another FREE evening of learning, networking and noshing from your colleagues at the New England and Simmons Student chapters of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.
- Have you been curious about Second Life (http://secondlife.com/) but
cautious about exploring it?
- Have you wondered how your library and information services might be
of value in this rapidly growing virtual world?
- Have you taken a look at the website and thought, "Well, the flying
part looks very cool, but there goes my whole weekend!"?
If so, you will want to come to this special FREE event and get a quick introduction to:
- Learn how to get started quickly in Second Life
- Hear from educators who have been developing user instruction and
library and information science education activities in Second Life
- Team up with "residents" of Second Life and meet up with other "teams"
at the Second Life Library and travel together to other related sites
Presenters:
- Candy Schwartz: Professor and Coordinator of Doctoral Studies at Simmons College
- Megan Fox: Web and Electronic Resources Librarian at Simmons College
We will be conducting two sessions according to the following schedule:
- 5:45pm - Candy and Megan will give a brief introduction to Second Life and
discuss their grant-funded project to develop library user instruction
and library and information science education activities in Second Life
- 6:05pm - Candy, Megan and other experienced "residents" of Second Life will each
team up with 2-3 observers around computers and show their team briefly
how to log in, setup and move around. All of the "residents" and their
teams of observers will proceed through the Second Life environment to
meet up at the Second Life Library for a demonstration in the classroom
there. En route, "residents" will further educate their observing team
members about facets of Second Life.
- 6:45 - Session concludes and participants are invited to adjourn for refreshments and networking.
- The next session will begin at 7:15pm and repeat the format. Attendees at the second session are encouraged to arrive early at 6:30 for refreshments and networking.
REGISTRATION:
This event has passed. Please join us for our Guerilla Innovation event: http://www.neasist.org/pc/programs/20071115.html
Questions? Email: Christine Quirion, cquirion[at ]mit.edu
17 September , 2007