Librarian Kathryn’s MUSLIG blog

Victoria University now has a presence in Second Life. The review of the plot mentions how refreshing it is to see a higher ed. Institution where experimentation is evident, rather than being released fully polished.
http://www.sloz.info/2007/08/29/victoria-university-joins-the-class/

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BSU Libraries Working Group to Place Materials on Second Life
Ball State University Libraries plans to utilize the online environment Second Life to make library and archival resources such as text, photographs, audio and videos available to users of the virtual world.
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“It’s an attempt to explore current and new ways to present and offer services to an expanded [...]

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Kim Flintoff (Kim Pasternak in SL) is doing his Phd using Second Life. Here’s a rather long interview from SLOz:
http://www.sloz.info/2007/08/23/interview-kim-pasternak-kim-flintoff/

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Report Released 10th August:
A Report on the First Year of Operation of the Alliance Second Life Library 2.0 Project also known as the Alliance Information Archipelago (pdf)
April 11, 2006 Through April 18, 2007
Compiled by Tom Peters of TAP Information Services with the assistance of Lori Bell and Beth Gallaway

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A rather comprehensive code of conduct for IBM employees doing business within Second Life on behalf of IBM
IBM Virtual World Guidelines

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Second Life: Reaching into the Virtual World for Real-World Learning.
Added by the EDUCAUSE Librarian
Figure out who gets listed here and how we will handle email notification of comments.

Title:
Second Life: Reaching into the Virtual World for Real-World Learning (ID: ERB0717)

This publication is currently password protected. All faculty, staff, and students from [...]

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Gippsland TAFE project which involved virtual job interviews
http://virtualworldsreallearning.wikispaces.com/

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Looks like UWA are self hosting a vitual campus
http://www.uwa.edu.au/media/statements/media_statements_2007/july/virtual
http://www.csse.uwa.edu.au/virtual/

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From: David P. Dillard <j…@temple.edu>
EDUCATION: LEARNING: STRATEGIES METHODS AND TECHNIQUES :
RECREATION: GAMES:
It’s Not Whether You Win or Lose, but How You Play the Game:
The Role of Virtual Worlds in Education: An Annotated Bibliography
Thanks to Bernie Sloan, a frequent poster to the DIG_REF discussion group
for sharing this link and resource with me.
It’s Not Whether You Win [...]

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August 5 2007
Virtual World Hangouts: So Many To Choose From
Mark Hendrickson
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The avatars roaming many online virtual communities may be cartoonish and their activities inconsequential, but the recent sale of Club Penguin to Disney for $350 million (with $350 million in earn out) demonstrates that the business of casual immersive worlds, or virtual [...]

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