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04/12/23 Aslib Midlands: Using Second Life
TheUniversityLibrary
USING SECOND LIFE
Vicki Cormie/Ishbel Hartmann St Andrews University
Lyn Parker/Maggie Kohime University of Sheffield
Sheila Webber/Sheila Yoshikawa University of Sheffield
04/12/23 Aslib Midlands: Using Second Life
Outline• Basic introduction to us and
Second Life• Our joint involvement
• Infolit iSchool • Teaching• Centre for Information Literacy
Research• Library services in Second
Life• Inworld activities
04/12/23 Aslib Midlands: Using Second Life
04/12/23 Aslib Midlands: Using Second Life
Structure for Workshop• Divide into groups, according to
amount of SL experience & preference• Help with the basics or Discussion group
• Tour
• Goals for session vary depending on which group you are in: overall, to know more about SL and its possibilities/ constraints
• Base for activity will be Infolit iSchool
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Second Life• 3D online virtual world, also known as a MUVE
(multi-user virtual environments) • Most things created by SL residents: SL
fashion designers, architects, bakers, animal makers ….
• Avatars- 3D representation of yourself – free to signup and can live on freebies, but need Linden dollars if want to own land, buy clothes etc.
• Communication is through Chat, Voice and/or Instant Messaging
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Practical issues• Time – operates on SL time which is 8 hours behind UK time• Software revisions have been frequent, can cause problems• Need broadband and good computer with right graphics card• No access via managed desktop currently• Learning curve in basics of movement, etiquette &
communication inworld• Some people may have concerns about signing up for avatar
or entering a dangerous space (but possibly more those not used to social software or gaming)
• Max of about 40 avatars per region/island, and 45K on whole grid
• Inclusion issues
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Educational Possibilities of SL
• Movement in 3D space. • Machinima - animated filmmaking within a real-time virtual
3D environment, tactics such as in an emergency response • Appreciation of space - such as in the reproduction of Roma
and the Globe Theatre. (Photo – Pixeltheatre, 2007)• Interactions in a space - such as managing a hotel. • 3D and scale - such as in the simulation of a heart murmur
or molecules. (Photo - Daneel Ariantho, 2008)• Role playing - avatars and interactions with different groups
such as ageing, schizophrenia, patients or customers. • Virtual psychology and sociology. (Tom Werner, 2008)
04/12/23 Aslib Midlands: Using Second Life
• Building and design • Clothing design.• 3D exercises and testing.• Constructivist activities.• Role-play scenes from books.• Building to illustrate a concept: 3D model of 7 Pillars• Creative arts – writing, photography, music.• Visualisation of data – weather, planes in flight,
Standard and Poor’s 500 index, IBM Wimbledon tennis.
• Rapid prototyping and co-design - NASA CoLab
http://slurl.com/secondlife/vassar/
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Infolit iSchool • Successful bid to CILASS to fund island; now
hosts School of Education as well as DIS• Sheila does all the development work,
setting up the island and different areas; different themes depending on time of year
• Provided a library and office space • Hear her views on Second Life• http://blip.tv/file/1375957/• http://blip.tv/file/739271
04/12/23 Aslib Midlands: Using Second Life
Student context
• Compulsory activity (feeding into assignment) for 1st year BSc Information Management students in (core) Information Literacy class (21 students)
• No student had used virtual world before (nb SL main grid is 18+ only)
• Has to be a pedagogical rationale for using SL, not automatically engaged, learning curve puts some off
• Used to social networking; feels like a social area; behaviour may be more suitable to a social environment
• Need activity rather than content; suitable for IBL• Postgraduates holding research discussions
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IL Seminars in Second Life• Appearance within Second Life; is it important and
how does it affect how you behave? How should librarians therefore be presenting themselves in Second Life? Do we need to label ourselves and how do we ensure privacy and confidentiality as we start to develop an academic virtual world?
• What role should librarians be taking in Second Life? What library services do we need in the virtual world? Do we need to replicate the Real World or do things differently and if so, what and how?
• All discussion recorded as chatlogs
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Library Services in Second Life
04/12/23 Aslib Midlands: Using Second Life
Designing a Second Life Library• Blank design sheet
• Replicate campus buildings or open space?• Expectations of our users – preference for talking
to a real person• Communication methods• Technical expertise or buy products?• Help with searching, security, copyright, evaluation
of information
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Strategies and roles
• 7 Faces of the Library• Physical collection of books;• Learning and social space;• Website;• University portal;• Virtual learning
environment;• Web 2.0 technologies • 3D virtual worlds
• Services• Information literacy• Information availability• Personalisation• Seamless access• 24/7 delivery• Student engagement• Marketing
04/12/23 Aslib Midlands: Using Second Life
Sheila Webber
http://information-literacy.blogspot.com
http://adventuresofyoshikawa.blogspot.com/
Sheila Yoshikawa
Vicki Cormie
Lyn Parker
04/12/23 Aslib Midlands: Using Second Life
Resources
Adventures of Sheila Yoshikawa http://adventuresofyoshikawa.blogspot.com/
Sheila’s presentations on Slideshare e.g.http://www.slideshare.net/sheilawebber/using-first-and-second-
life-to-develop-inquiry-skills-in-the-freshman-year-at-a-uk-university-a-happy-blend-presentation
Facebook Groups – Second Life for Educators; UK Second Life Educators
Parker, L. (2008), “More questions than answers: the reflections of Maggie Kohime, a virtual librarian in Second Life”, ALISS Quarterly, Vol. 3 No 2, pp13-17. Available at: http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/3624/2/More_questions_than_answers-1.pdf
Second Life Educators List (SLED) https://lists.secondlife.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/educators
