Welcome to this page produced for the "Information Literacy with Web 2.0 " virtual event (June/July 2009). I am Sheila Webber, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Information Studies, University of sheffield, UK. In Second Life I am Sheila Yoshikawa, and own our SL island, Infolit iSchool. This page has two short PowerPoints put together for the event, and links/embeddings of other resources. The focus is on virtual worlds, specifically Second Life. In part 1 I give an introduction to uses of virtual worlds, including my own experience, and in Part 2 (in the right hand column towards the end of the page) I focus on Information Literacy & Second Life.
**Please read the web "post-it notes"** in particular the PINK ones which are the "headers" for the items. I hope you find it interesting ;-)
**Please read the web "post-it notes"** in particular the PINK ones which are the "headers" for the items. I hope you find it interesting ;-)
The link in the next box is to a professionally made video **please watch at least the first five minutes**. In the first section (5 minutes) a British teacher John Hanson School Community School, Andover, UK, explains his use of teen Second Life, with input from his pupils explaining their use of SL. The rest is also interesting, explaining the project to redesign virtually and rebuild Cleveland's Skinningrove Jetty. The page has good links - scroll down for them
http://www.teachers.tv/video/30858
A good video introduction to use in a school - see note above. The whole video is 14 minutes - at least look at the first 5 minutes.
Below is a video from the Global Kids Virtual Video Project. Please **Look at at least a few of the "30 second" films to get a flavour of what they say**.
It is a "Collection of 30-second machinima films highlighting some of the teens’ online personality in Second Life" - these are the teens who made machinima (SL animation) called "Discovered" which premiered 1st July and is linked to below. Flying & being able to drive are two things that come up more than once.
It is a "Collection of 30-second machinima films highlighting some of the teens’ online personality in Second Life" - these are the teens who made machinima (SL animation) called "Discovered" which premiered 1st July and is linked to below. Flying & being able to drive are two things that come up more than once.
"July 1, 2009, at the Sony Wonder Theater in Manhattan, fifteen New York public high school students who are Global Kids teen filmmakers will premiere their film Discovered. Discovered is a digital "machinima" film produced in Second Life that explores the powerful issue of child sex trafficking through the fictional story of one Mexican teenager. This is the final product of a year-long, intensive digital filmmaking program called the Virtual Video Project (VVP), an after-school program conducted by Global Kids, Inc in NYC. The students gathered regularly during the past year to learn about film production, human rights, and virtual worlds, culminating in a serious issue machinima film produced entirely by the youth filmmakers." This is part of the Global Kids project and the page below has their film "Discovered" embedded in it
http://www.holymeatballs.org/2009/07/vvp_global_kids_machinima_disc.html
This has their machinima "Discovered" embedded in it.
http://ramapoislands.edublogs.org/
Suffern Middle School in Second Life. The blog for the "Rampopo islands" on the Teen grid of Second Life.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nbZ1O7vD8E&feature=channel_page
The London Oncology Clinic in Second Life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OLztlaO2wk
YouTube - Virtual world, real learning: Jefferson Occupational Therapy graduate students in Second Life® They talk about their experience of SL.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CijdlYOSPc
This video by Gary Hayes zips through 50 different virtual worlds. One or two are gone now (e.g. the Google world) but most still exist - and more have arrived!
Second Life is used for fund raising and raising awareness of issues such as disability (for example, 27th June was "Helen Keller Day" with events raising awareness about accessibility issues, and there are regular fundraising events for cancer charities). This provides opportunities for young people to become involved in philanthropic worls e.g. fundraising, or building a presence for a charity in SL.
http://philanthropy.com/media/audio/socialgood/
12 minute Podcast from the series: Social good "Episode 7: Philanthropy in Virtual Worlds". This has interviews with people talking about charitable and public good works in Second Life
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