Murdoch University Library Gets a Second Life

Murdoch University Library gets a Second Life

Kathryn Greenhill,November 2007

Slides at: LibrariansMatter.com

Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

• What is Second Life?

• Why is an academic library there?

• What we did.• Outcomes.


What is Second Life?


A 3D Online Digital World Imagined, Created and Owned by its residents

MUVE : Multi User Virtual Environment


Avatars

Islands

Objects


Why is an Academic Library there ?


“Gartner Says 80 Percent of Active Internet Users Will Have A “second life" in the Virtual World by the End of 2011…but not necessarily in Second Life …“

Analysts Identify the Five Laws for Virtual Worlds During Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2007 Emerging Trends


http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=503861%20



New Media Consortium / Educause Horizon Report 2007

• Reviewed key trends in the practice of teaching, learning, and creativity

• Trends were identified through a careful analysis of interviews, articles, papers, and published research.

• Ranked in order of importance, to identify those likely to have a the most significant impact in education in the next five years.


http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2007_Horizon_Report.pdf

New Media Consortium / Educause Horizon Report 2007

…In the same way that the number and sophistication of websites grew very quickly as more people began to browse, virtual locations will become more common and more mature as the trend continues. Virtual worlds offer flexible spaces for learning and exploration— educational use of these spaces is already underway and growing.


http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2007_Horizon_Report.pdf

What we did.


Plot of land on Cybrary City II in the Information Archipelago



What we wanted to offer our community


Familiarity with the interface.


A safe destination


A chance to make up their own minds


A closed lab of PCs with updated Second Life software


Discovering your Second Life


With Teaching and Learning Centre


Mailbomb to University Community


Presentation:Lindy McKeown USQ Action Learning in Second Life


8 workshops over 3 months


Workshop: Creating your avatar


Workshop: Doing more with your avatar




Outcomes


Second Life Interest Group


Murdoch University Island

• Library

• Teaching and Learning

• ITS

• School of IT


Delivered 28 Sept 2007

• Admin and development

• Public

• Murdoch Community Ideas Space

• ICT333


ICT333 / TLC2776 studentsJob interview simulation


Futher information


http://murdochsecondlife.pbwiki.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiH7dkOVaLc


Questions ?


Questions ?


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