http://libkat.edublogs.org Here's a place to put nifty links and things I like. Bit more formal than del.icio.us , bit less formal than Librarians Matter . Thu, 16 Aug 2007 01:05:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Second Life: Reaching into the Virtual World for Real-World Learning. Added by the EDUCAUSE Librarian Figure out who gets listed here and how we will handle email notification of comments. Title: Second Life: Reaching into the Virtual World for Real-World Learning (ID: ERB0717) This publication is currently password protected. All ... http://libkat.edublogs.org/2007/08/16/second-life-reaching-into-the-virtual-world-for-real-world-learning-educause/ Gippsland TAFE project which involved virtual job interviews http://virtualworldsreallearning.wikispaces.com/ http://libkat.edublogs.org/2007/08/13/virtual-job-interviews-in-sl-at-gippsland-tafe/ Looks like UWA are self hosting a vitual campus http://www.uwa.edu.au/media/statements/media_statements_2007/july/virtual http://www.csse.uwa.edu.au/virtual/ http://libkat.edublogs.org/2007/08/13/uwa-virtual-campus/ From: David P. Dillard <j...@temple.edu> EDUCATION: LEARNING: STRATEGIES METHODS AND TECHNIQUES : RECREATION: GAMES: It's Not Whether You Win or Lose, but How You Play the Game: The Role of Virtual Worlds in Education: An Annotated Bibliography Thanks to Bernie Sloan, a frequent poster to the DIG_REF discussion group for sharing this link and resource with ... http://libkat.edublogs.org/2007/08/12/bibliography-of-the-role-of-virtual-worlds-in-education/ August 5 2007 Virtual World Hangouts: So Many To Choose From Mark Hendrickson 46 comments » The avatars roaming many online virtual communities may be cartoonish and their activities inconsequential, but the recent sale of Club Penguin to Disney for $350 million (with $350 million in earn out) demonstrates that the business of ... http://libkat.edublogs.org/2007/08/10/techcrunch-comparison-table-of-online-virtual-worlds/ Here's a 45 minutes audio/slide clip about: What is Second Life? What can you do there? What are libraries doing there. Some interesting library sites Ten ways libraries can join in Live tour of the Australian Libraries Building http://www.slideshare.net/sirexkat/slvs-lgreenhil-slideshare http://libkat.edublogs.org/2007/08/09/slidecast-about-second-life-and-libraries/ McMaster Uni Library in Canda has just revamped their mission statement (below), and it's a thing of beauty. Even more interesting are the notes of staff feedback(Strategic Planning) from the planning meeting.  They were asked beforehand to read the David Lewis paper, A Model for Academic Libraries 2005 to ... http://libkat.edublogs.org/2007/08/06/mcmaster-university-library-vision-statement/ Online learning using virtual worlds USQ Faculty of Education Symposium Participants are invited to take part in this unique FREE triple-cast event in person face-to-face at USQ , simultaneously in-world in Second Life or watch a live broadcast via the web. Overview As the web becomes more of ... http://libkat.edublogs.org/2007/08/06/im-presenting-about-sl-at-this-seminar-14-aug/ Looks like Professor John Hedberg at Macquarie is formulating an application for a Carrick grant to form an International Virtual Reality Teaching and Learning Research Institute.  I found this via the SLOz blog http://www.sloz.info/2007/08/02/international-virtual-teaching-and-learning-research-institute-proposed/ >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Call for Expressions of Interest to contribute to a proposed International Virtual Reality Teaching and Learning ... http://libkat.edublogs.org/2007/08/06/carrick-grant-for-virtual-reality-tl-at-macquarie/ Here's Curtin's glossary of library language. I like it. http://library.curtin.edu.au/reference/library_language.html http://libkat.edublogs.org/2007/08/06/library-language-page-at-curtin/