Second Life concerns

I’m currently taking a class in Second Life and we posted our first impressions of the virtual world to the class forum today.  One of my classmates posted this interesting article about a professor’s “second thoughts about Second Life”, which raises some important legal and ethical concerns about institutions of higher learning using and requiring [...]

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Who’s interested in Second Life?

Many campuses of higher education are dealing with budget and staffing issues, as well as a lack of time.  Thus, Second Life has enormous appeal for all academic and student life departments, not just the academic library.  collegewebeditor.com is a web, PR, and marketing blog for higher ed institutions, aimed primarily to admissions and marketing [...]

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The value of virtual worlds

Thanks to George Siemens’ eLearning Resources and News email newsletter:  a recent TechCrunch article on virtual worlds and the different services they provide and a discussion on the Freakonomics blog about the popularity and economic questions sparked by virtual services such as Second Life.  This last one really started an interesting discussion about the supposed [...]

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Courses on virtual librarianship

It doesn’t seem like virtual librarianship should be so hard that they have to offer classes in Second Life.  The graduate library school at University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) and the Alliance Library System of Illinois are partnering to create two online courses designed to introduce newbies to the world of librarianship in Second Life.

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