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[edit] SJSU's School of Library & Information Science Second Life portal
Hosting the nation's first graduate degree course for library and information science professionals tracking the exciting new world of libraries in immersive worlds.
[edit] Why Second Life?
We have found six uses for this virtual worlds platform that show direct benefits for LIS students:
Groups and Events - begin support groups and hold community events
Interfaces and Web Connectivity - connect database and applications to the 3D setting
Professional Services Role-play - practice interacting with clients and interviewing them
Commerce and Creativity - build and sell interesting objects
Personal Discovery and Identity - create a new persona and practice in business settings
Marketing and Outreach - create a new branch and promote your current services
[edit] Second Life Orientation Sessions for Libr 203
The department is offering 10 orientation sessions of 60 minutes each with five different themes. To sign up for these sessions, please complete the survey here: http://slisapps.sjsu.edu/phpq/phpq7/fillsurvey.php?sid=24 to indicate which event you will attend. All sessions are conducted by voice and require a microphone headset. Please follow the SLIS Elluminate technical requirements.
You must have an avatar that has completed all orientation steps and is capable of reaching SJSU SLIS Island. All orientations start at the center of SJSU SLIS Island and will be conducted by the Jeremy Kabumpo avatar.
[edit] Interface and Avatar Practice
Covers Camera Controls - Chat and voice practice - Clothing and attachments
- 9/9 - 5:30-6:30 pm Tuesday
- 9/19 - 9:30-10:30 pm Friday
[edit] Finding and Organizing Content
Covers Yard sale tips - Inventory management - Shopping basics - Content Websites
- 9/3 - 2:00-3:00 pm Wednesday
- 9/17 - 5:30-6:30 pm Wednesday
[edit] Joining Groups and Building Communities
Covers Joining a group - Roles and abilities - Notices and events
- 8/29 - 9:00-10:00 pm Friday
- 9/12 - 10:30-11:30 am Friday
[edit] Library Hot spots Tour
Covers Ref desk - Stanford Libraries - Info Island International - ITC Library
- 8/28 - 2:00-3:00 pm Thursday
- 9/15 - 5:00-6:00 pm Monday (RESCHEDULED)
[edit] Business Issues and Outreach
Covers Real estate - Buying and selling - Notices and events
- 9/12 - 3:00-4:00 pm Friday
- (CANCELED) 9/1 - 10:30-11:30 am Monday
[edit] Second Life Tutorials
- Windlight Settings: Tips for the new rendering features in the latest viewer
- Second Life Guides
- Advanced Tutorials
- Preference Settings: Tips for making Second Life run smoothly.
- Complete list of video tutorials.
- Troubleshooting / FAQs: Crash, Freeze, Graphics/Avatar appearance glitches, Lag, Hardware
problems
- Second Life Guide for getting in and basic movement controls
- Basic Communication in Second Life
- Second Life Lexicon
[edit] SLIS Campus
[edit] Faculty Office Locations
These links point to teleport coordinates for the island. You must have Second Life installed to use these links.
- Diana Bradley's Office
- Connie Constantino Office
- Heather Ebey Office
- Debbie Faires (): Office
- Charlotte Ford's Office (green cylinder)
- Melodie Morgan Frances: Office (purple ring)
- Lori Lindberg's Office (inside the tower)
- David V. Loertcher's Office (yellow Pacman)
- Lili Luo (Foxfish Falta): Office
- Linda Main (Spartan Writer): Office (red & white swirl)
- Susan Schreibman (Amber Tizona): Office (red sphere)
[edit] Landmarks
- SJSU Fountain
- Tower Hall
- Island Builder's Tower
- Snowing Sculpture
[edit] Research Projects
- Anthony Bernier's Young Adult Library Prototype (68/110)
- Linda Main's Lab space
- Sloodleville
[edit] Facilities
- Career Center
- Video Theater
- Student Union
- Info Desk
- Tiki Bar
- Teleport Plaza
- Community Sandbox
- Stage
- Learning Space Rezzer
[edit] Teachers Start Here
[edit] Teaching Fast track - 6 steps for teaching in SL at SJSU
- Meet the technical requirements
- Get an account, download the client
- Find the campus
- Review virtual education and teaching methods
- Set up your space
- Greet your students
[edit] Learning Management System Mashup
- Sloodle - An experiment combining Second Life with Moodle.
- jSLplus - A Mashup between Second Life and Joomla.
[edit] Simteach Wiki
- Bibliography of scholarly articles concerned with Second Life
- Popular articles concerned with Second Life (broader in scope)
- Blogs and wikis concerned with librarianship in Second Life
This wiki is a non-commercial resource for educators in Second Life. The content belongs to the community that creates it.
