SL Presentation Slides Available

by Esther Grassian

Yesterday I signed up for slideshare.net and posted my slide show there for the presentation I did yesterday in RL and in SL, for the California Library Association's Academic Section.
http://www.slideshare.net/estherg/second-life-for-cla/

There were about 35 academic librarians in attendance at Cal State Dominguez Hills, and a number of avatars in SL, though I don't know exactly how many. Many, many thanks are due to Lori Bell for setting up and pushing my slides in SL, and to Jeff Lebow of Worldbridges for helping me learn how to use Skype and then for streaming the audio into SL during the presentation. I couldn't have done it without your help--thank you both so much!

I'm about to send copies of my handouts to be mounted on the CLA web site and will send that url once they're up. Someone sent me a message,meanwhile, asking for the url of the critical thinking guide I created re Web 2.0+, so I'm pasting that in here in case anyone else would like to have it now, though it's included in the bibliography that will be mounted on theCLA web site:

"Thinking Critically About Web 2.0 and Beyond"
http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/critical/web20.htm

Esther Grassian
Information Literacy Outreach Coordinator
UCLA College Library

SL Artist Filthy Fluno Speaking Thursday

Details just in.. SL artist Filthy Fluno (aka Jeffrey Lipsky http://www.jeffreylipsky.com ) will be providing a live audio discussion Thursday, May 10, on NMC Campus (5pm PDT). He will be showing a video that demonstrates a time lapsed view of the creation of a painting, as well as sharing his ideas on the capabilities of virtual reality to bridge the international divides of technology, culture, creativity, and artistic expression. Come learn about how art happens in SL.

Join us on Teaching 2 (135,124,22) http://slurl.com/secondlife/Teaching%202/135/124/22

Details: http://sl.nmc.org/2007/05/08/flithy-fluno/

Posted to SLED Listserv on 09-MAY-07 by Alan Levine.

Best Practices Conference Update

Can you believe that in just a few short weeks, the VERY FIRST inworld conference of educators will take place??

1. Are you planning to attend?
2. Do you want to present?
3. Does your college/school/program want a stand?
4. Do you play a game that you want to share?

It is OK if you are new to SL or if you can't be there all day. It is ok if you don't yet have students inworld. And it is OK if you just want to drop in for one or two sessions. Among the long list of talented keynotes and speakers, we have the awesome and lovely Intellagirl Tully and IBM's Chuck Hamilton.

Even if you are only popping in to see one session, we would like to know to expect you (to make sure we have enough chairs and all). As of right this moment, we are expecting about 300 people. ISN'T THAT AWESOME??? But, we want to make sure we have enough room for YOU!

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE register on the wiki at http://slbestpractices2007.wikispaces.com/

If you would like to showcase your work in some way, you can submit your awesome ideas via the wiki, as well.

We hope to see you there!

Posted to SLED Listserv on 09-MAY-07 by Beth Ritter-Guth

Live video presentation on Sloodle, May 16 (12 PM SLT)

Daniel Livingstone secured a largish grant (six figures in USD) from the Eduserv Foundation to support the Sloodle project. He will outline his work in our Spring Colloquia event with a live video feed to the "SJSU SLIS" sim.

Title: "Immersive and Web-Based Virtual Learning Environments: Bridging the Gap with Sloodle".

...and the formal announcement:

The School of Library and Information Science at San Jose State University is pleased to invite you to attend our continuing Colloquium Series featuring SLIS faculty and invited guests, as they address the challenges and promises of our rapidly changing profession.

Our final Spring Colloquia 2007 speaker is:

Dr. Daniel Livingstone
University of Paisley, Scotland
School of Computing
Title: "Immersive and Web-Based Virtual Learning
Environments: Bridging the Gap with Sloodle"

Wednesday 16 May 2007
Noon to 1:00 pm (SL time)
304 Clark Hall
SJSU campus in San Jose

This will be our first live colloquium available on SecondLife. Please join us there at
http://slurl.com/secondlife/SJSU%20SLIS/175/135

or

Prepare technically in advance to participate in this live venue by visiting http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/sl for set-up instructions, technical assistance, and orientation

and

To access the entire Spring program, visit SLIS's homepage at http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/, where you will also find a complete webcast archive of previous Colloquia presentations.

Posted to SLED Listserv (07MAY07) by Jeremy Kemp

Presentations Tonight and Tomorrow

To wrap up a semester of work in world we're putting on 3 research presentations this week.

The first is tonight at 4:30 SLT -
Religion in SecondLife, presented by me (Kim Chihuly) and Austra Soleil (RL: Austra Zubkovs, a senior in my department)
Park Communication (219, 51, 28)

Tuesday (tomorrow) at 10:00am SLT -
Intellectual Property and Virtual Worlds by Shmapple Patrono (RL: Mike Palumbo, a senior in my department off to law school in the fall)
Park Communication (92, 113, 29)

Tuesday (tomorrow) at 5pm SLT
a live video presentation by 2 more seniors from the Park School of Communication. This presentation is on facebook.
Park Communication (92, 113, 29)

Posted to SLED Listserv (07-MAY-07) by Kim Gregson