[Asis-l] Journal Club and talk in Second Life Fri 16th March

[Sheila A Webber]

As part of the Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education conference
(http://vwbpe12.vwbpe.org/), there is a virtual journal club meeting
on Friday 16th March:
When: 16th March, 1pm SL time (which is Pacific time; 8pm UK time; see
see http://tinyurl.com/7ulvad2 for times elsewhere)

Where: The virtual world, Second Life.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/EduCommons%20Alpha/171/51/40/  You need a
SL avatar and the SL browser on your computer to participate.

What: Marshall Dozier (Edinburgh University Library) will lead discussion on:
Young, P. and Vilelle, L. (2011) “The Prevalence and Practices of
Academic Library Journal Clubs” http://hdl.handle.net/10760/15531
[authors’ preprint] Published in: The Journal of Academic
Librarianship, 37 (2), 130-136.

This is taking place on our exhibition stand about "Running a Journal
Club in Second Life" (pictured here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23396182@N00/6839880206/in/photostream/),
which you can visit anytime now, and next week.

I'll also mention that I and one of my PhD students, Ridvan Ata, are
giving a presentation at the conference on "Teaching and learning in
Second Life as Part of a Blended Approach:reflections and lessons
learnt", also on 16th March at 11am SL time (6pm UK time, see
http://tinyurl.com/7y7yjxf for times elesewhere). The location is
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/CAVE/225/220/25t
-- 
Sheila Webber, Senior Lecturer & Director of the Centre for
Information Literacy Research, Information School, The University of
Sheffield, 211 Portobello Street, Sheffield, S1 4DP. UK
s.webber at sheffield.ac.uk
Phone: +44 114 222 2641
Second Life & Twitter: Sheila Yoshikawa
The Information Literacy Weblog http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/