Showing posts with label dull conference stuff. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dull conference stuff. Show all posts

Monday, 31 May 2010

Information & health literacy events

When: Thursday June 3rd, Where; Infolit iSchool (& tour to Tseshkovsky); in Second Life, the virtual world
- 7 am Second Life time, presentation Information Literacy for 21st Century Life
- 8 am SL time reports and discussion on recent conferences; plus at
- 9am SLT (en Espanol) and 12 noon SLT (in English): repeat event: Pi Illios (Universidad Puerto Rico) Literacia en Salud en Second Life (en Espanol, 9am) / Health Literacy in Second Life (in English, noon)

* 7am SL time (see http://tinyurl.com/38755tv for time in other countries): presentation from Sheila Yoshikawa (Sheila Webber in RL, University of Sheffield) on Information Literacy for 21st Century Life (as presented at the Oeiras a Ler conference in Lisbon, Portugal, in May, with some amendment).
Venue: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Infolit%20iSchool/147/170/21
In this presentation Sheila will elaborate a definition of information literacy and give examples of what information, and information literacy, mean in a number of contexts (e.g. in computer gaming, in a workplace, for "tweens") and sum up key messages about IL in the 21st Century.

* 8 am SL time (see http://tinyurl.com/2vlrgup for times in other countries): Report back from recent conferences (Oeiras a Ler, Informa 2010, and any others participants have been to recently!) Venue: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Infolit%20iSchool/43/203/22/

* 9am SL time (see http://tinyurl.com/3aznlgt for times in other countries) Literacia en Salud en Second Life ( en Espanol: Pi Illios, University of Puerto Rico)
Venue: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Infolit%20iSchool/190/215/749/
La Biblioteca Conrado F. Asenjo en el Recinto de Ciencias Médicas de la Universidad de Puerto Rico lleva a cabo un proyecto de Literacia y alfabetización en salud dirigido a hispnos que residen en Second Life .
La literatura profesional señala que el 31,5% de los pacientes de habla inglesa y el 61,7% de habla española presentan una inadecuada o marginal alfabetización funcional en salud.
La plataforma virtual Second Life tiene una población considerable de hispanosparlantes (alrededor de un 11.8 %) que residen en en este mundo virtual por infinidad de razones. Nuestro objetivo es enseñar y orientar al residente hispano en SL a encontrar información de salud confiable, actualizada y adecuada a sus necesidades; see https://sites.google.com/a/upr.edu/tusaludbuscadistingueaprende/?AuthEventSource=SSO

* 12 noon SL time (see http://tinyurl.com/369bq3u for times in other countries) "Health Literacy in Second Life" (talk and tour; in English: Pi Illios, University of Puerto Rico)
Venue: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Infolit%20iSchool/129/242/22/
The Conrado F. Asenjo health library of the University of Puerto Rico has created a prototype for health literacy to help Hispanic residents in Second Life. This is responding to the factthat surveys have shown that people have poor health literacy (31.5% of English speakers and 61.7 Spanish speakers). They have used the platform of Second Life to create a prototype informative build. Pi Illios with introduce their work, and then take people on a tour of the build on Tseshkovsky; see this page

Wednesday, 18 November 2009

Happenings, meetings, all too much

Storyquests taken: 1 (excellent); Educators meetings attended: 4 (approx) (good); Teaching sessions held: several (as good as can be expected); No. of days between writing this entry and publishing it: 12 (bad)
As is usual when v. active in SL and indeed RL have been failing somewhat on the blogging front. Have, though, noticed unerving tendency to compose blog entries in head as working into work. Alas when get to work am swept away in happy (ahem) whirl of email, teaching, etc. etc. Also may have noted before that tend to avoid blogging about students since would not want to offend them by sounding offhand or slighting. Thus will not say to much about that side of things, perhaps will reserve that for special post in dull and factual tone.
In fact did a lot of reflecting about SL because did talk as part a research seminar series and was invited by Jackie and DrJoolz to talk about my adventures in SL in autoethnographic fashion. Since "SL" and "myself" are 2 of my favourite things, was v. excited about this, and will upload ppt in due course. Actually should be sooner than "due course" as am getting polite reminders from organisers. And could be doing that instead of blogging whilst uploading to flickr (these are the two tasks currently being multi-ed)

Note: Have returned to blogging after mad whirl of information literacy week in SL, and discovered this sad stump of a post. Decide might as well publish it, although it is pretty dull. Picture doesn't show any of the events mentioned above: once infolit week was over decided to spend 40 minutes recreationally, & created moody autumnal island with new sculpty reindeer from G Field, 50 Linden greenhouse and my new favourite birch trees from AG.

Sunday, 16 March 2008

Resources list for the SL session at the LILAC conference

Ribble, P. (2008) Guide to SL basics. http://infoisland.org/drupal/reference/SL_ready_ref/Guide_to_SL_basics

Kay, J and Fitzgerald, S. (2008) Second Life in Education http://sleducation.wikispaces.com/ (wiki with useful information for educators and students, and information on the authors’ own projects – they are Australian educators)

Kemp, J (Ed) (2008) Second Life Education Wiki: SimTeach http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Second_Life_Education_Wiki
There are further resources linked from these e.g. at http://sleducation.wikispaces.com/secondliferesources

Kirriemuir, J. (2007 & 2008) Snapshot reports of UK universities’ activities in Second Life. http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation/studies/slsnapshots and photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/silversprite/sets/72157603982005324/

SLED events: a calendar for Second Life events for educators http://sledevents.blogspot.com/

Blogs
Second Life Library blog http://infoisland.org/
Beth’s Second Life http://bethssecondlife.blogspot.com/ (one of the pioneer educators, who leaches literature)
Adventures of Yoshikawa http://adventuresofyoshikawa.blogspot.com/ (Sheila Yoshikawa/ Webber’s blog)
Artsplace SL http://artfossett.blogspot.com/ (Andy Powell of Eduserv)

Discussion lists
Secondlife http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/SECONDLIFE.html (UK discussion list)
Second Life Educators List (SLED). https://lists.secondlife.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/educators (Very high volume discussion list, but is an invaluable resource) Various groups on Facebook including Second Life Librarians

Videos
Infolit iSchool
Metaverse TV. (2008) Out and about: interview with Sheila Yoshikawa. http://www.metaversetv.blip.tv/#745449

Libraries
Draxtordespres. (2007) Alliance Library System Second Life. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MazAoWCKPU
Rikomatic. (2006) Tour of info island. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTQkzfz5osQ
Rowanfair (2007) SL Libraries - Info Insland Archipelago Tour. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8v3TZethQ0
Sirexkat. (2007) Murdoch Uni Library gets a Second Life. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiH7dkOVaLc
srharris19 (2008) Avatars: what should I be today. http://youtube.com/watch?v=7Hk3uiZy6zA (mostly pictures of librarians and information professionals)

Education
Crkeesey. (2007) Ohio University Second Life Campus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFuNFRie8wA&feature=PlayList&p=96D577D877929F91&index=3
Holymeatballs (2008) NY1 on Global Kids in Second Life Jan, 2008. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxm-BaCcBJc (TV news report on the “Global kids” initiative on the teen grid of SL)
MaryAnnCLT (2007) Educational uses of Second Life. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOFU9oUF2HA
Perplexity Peccable. (2007) Science Learning Opportunities in Second Life. http://youtube.com/watch?v=EfsSGBraUhc
Secondhealth (2007) Second Health: Polyclinic Tour. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu-QNFLD1mg
SLmerryman. (2008) English Village in Second Life. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwHrjS-ENec
TessaLCooper (2007) The Nutrition Game: A Day of Food Choices http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLhNNYRJwJ4

General
Robbie Dingo (2007) Watch the World(s). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxVDVggLqsA&feature=PlayList&p=96D577D877929F91&index=2
SLSilver (2006) Second Life: Get One http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxj8RTW4ev4&feature=PlayList&p=96D577D877929F91&index=1

SL TV stations
Second Life Cable Network http://slcn.tv/
Metaverse TV http://www.metaverse-tv.com/

The blog of Sheila Yoshikawa on her adventures in Second Life. This may be very thrilling. Or possibly not.