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

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.

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.

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 ?

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