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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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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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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Here’s a 45 minutes audio/slide clip about:

What is Second Life?
What can you do there?
What are libraries doing there.
Some interesting library sites
Ten ways libraries can join in
Live tour of the Australian Libraries Building

http://www.slideshare.net/sirexkat/slvs-lgreenhil-slideshare

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Online learning using virtual worlds
USQ Faculty of Education Symposium
Participants are invited to take part in this unique FREE triple-cast event in person face-to-face at USQ , simultaneously in-world in Second Life or watch a live broadcast via the web.
Overview

As the web becomes more of an interactive two-way space [...]

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Looks like Professor John Hedberg at Macquarie is formulating an application for a Carrick grant to form an International Virtual Reality Teaching and Learning Research Institute.  I found this via the SLOz blog http://www.sloz.info/2007/08/02/international-virtual-teaching-and-learning-research-institute-proposed/
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Call for Expressions of Interest to contribute to a proposed International Virtual Reality Teaching and Learning Research InstituteThis is a general [...]

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