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From SLIS Second Life Wiki
[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 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.
- Connie Constantino Office
- Heather Ebey (Alexina Proctor) 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)
- Stacy Wile's Office (blue moon)
[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
[edit] Additional Links
- 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.
