Showing posts with label Second Life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Second Life. Show all posts

Friday, November 2, 2007

ALASC Luminary Lecture Webcast: Jeremy Kemp on Second Life

Watch a webcast of Jeremy Kemp, SJSU SLIS Assistant Director for Second Life Campus, talk about Second Life and how it applies to library students, as well as how it can be used for outreach to Library communities. Click on the SLIS media player link, then the ALASC link on the SLIS site to find the lecture (MP3 or MP4) to download.

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Tuesday, September 25, 2007

SJSU SLIS Second Life on PBS

The SJSU School of Library and Information Science will be featured on the public television show "Quest," which will air on KQED at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, September 25. The show explores science, environment and nature in Northern California. Tuesday's edition will feature a segment on Second Life, an online game where millions of people are creating digital personalities called avatars. SLIS has incorporated Second Life into its curriculum. KQED conducted interviews with SLIS faculty at the Academic Success Center's Incubator Classroom and part of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library that overlooks Tower Hall, which appears on Second Life.