Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Information providers in a virtual world

This is a presentation taking place in Second Life (SL), the virtual world.
When: Thursday 6 August 2009, 12 noon - 1pm SL time (this is 8pm UK time, go to http://tinyurl.com/kutq4x for other times)
Where: Infolit iSchool http://slurl.com/secondlife/
Infolit%20iSchool/126/243/21/

You need a SL avatar and the SL browser installed on your computer to
participate.
Lorri Mon (Lorri Momiji in SL, pictured), Assistant Professor, Florida State University, College of Information) will report on her study. For background reading see: Mon, L. (2009). Questions and Answers in a Virtual World : Educators and Librarians as Information Providers in Second Life. Journal of Virtual Worlds Research, Volume 2, Number 1 (April 2009). http://www.jvwresearch.org/v2n1_Mon.html

1 comment:

Robin Ashford said...

I really wanted to attend this and was not able due to work commitments. Very bummed. I hope the chatlog is available in Second Life. Thank you for linking to Lorri's article. I value and appreciate your discussions/events on InfoLit iSchool Island, Sheila. And great blog too. Thanks! -Robin