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on April 14, 2011 at 8:58:21 pm
Discussions have been held regularly on Infolit iSchool under the aegis of the Centre for Information Literacy Research, and in June 2008 it hosted a Second Life track of the Learning Through Enquiry Alliance conference. The main organiser is Sheila Yoshikawa (Sheila Webber in Real Life). In 2009 (SL names) Pancha Enzyme, Lulu Guinness, Ishbel Hartmann and Maggie Kohime assisted as an informal organising committee. From September 2010 we have launched a SL journal club which meetings monthly. There are chat transcripts, and sometimes other material, relating to many of these events.
These events were held in venues around Infolit iSchool, unless stated otherwise.
Fostering health information literacy through use of a virtual world (April 13 2011) A presentation by Brielle Coronet, Sheila Yoshikawa and Pi Illios. (Elisabeth Jacobsen Marrapodi, Library Director, Trinitas Regional Medical Center, New Jersey, USA, Sheila Webber, Senior Lecturer, Information School, University of Sheffield, UK, and Rossana I. Barrios, Biblioteca Conrado F. Asenjo, University of Puerto Rico). See http://www.slideshare.net/sheilawebber/fostering-health-information-literacy-through-use-of-a-virtual-world
Journal club on Infolit iSchool: Mansourian's information visibility model (23 March 2011) Dr Yazdan Mansourian (Assistant Professor, Tarbiat Moallem University, Iran) introduced his "information visibility" model of information searching. After his introduction we discussed: Mansourian, Y., Ford, N., Webber, S. and Madden, A. (2008). "An integrative model of 'information visibility' and 'information seeking' on the Web". Program, 42 (4), 402-417. We also viewed the 3D version of his model on Infolit iSchool.
Journal club on Infolit iSchool (23 February 2011) Loreena Sandalwood led discussion on: Skagen, T., Torras, M., Kavli, S., Mikki, S., Hafstad, S., & Hunskår, I. (2009). "Pedagogical Considerations in Developing an Online Tutorial in Information Literacy." Communications In Information Literacy, 2(2). http://www.comminfolit.org/index.php/cil/article/view/Fall2008AR2/74
Virtual Albannach celebrate Health Literacy Awareness Day on Infolit iSchool! (20 February 2011) A social event.
This inspired my teaching! Discussion (16 February 2011) Sheila Yoshikawa highlighted results from a UK and a USA survey of what delegates at 2 key information literacy conferences had found inspirational. They varied from fiction (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Little Women) to educational classics (e.g. Freire's work) to practical tutorials and books by librarians, to tales of inspirational individuals. This is different from the usual teacher's reading list! The list from the UK study is at http://dis.shef.ac.uk/sheila/brown-davies-2009.pdf and the US list is in: Brier, D.J. and Lebbin, V.K. (2006). “Ike loa: a list of influential books shaping the instruction librarian’s teaching and learning philosophy”. Reference Services Review, 34 (4), 607-643.
Journal club (2 February 2011) Pancha Enzyme led discussion on: Corrall, S. (2007). "Benchmarking strategic engagement with information literacy in higher education: towards a working model". Information Research, 12 (4) http://informationr.net/ir/12-4/paper328.html (open access article, free to all).
Alexandria Knight/ Esther Grassian on Information Literacy (19 January 2011) Description: Are you feeling off-balance? Overworked and underfunded? How can you keep up with all of your responsibilities, not to mention new technologies, apps, mobile environments, and social networking, when email alone takes up hours of time, while budgets, staff and open hours are cut, and class sizes keep getting bigger? How can you tell if what you are doing is effective when you have no time for reflection, and no time to develop assessment instruments, analyze the results, and make revisions? Collaborative partnerships, small and large, could help! Get insight into your institution's current partnership level, as well as ideas for expanding existing partnerships or developing new ones within and beyond your institution. Learn about big and little dreams of partners a
Journal club: Information literacy at the service desk (14 December 2010) Maggie Kohime led discussion on the article: Hauxwell, H. (2008) Information literacy at the Service Desk: the role of circulations staff in promoting information literacy. Journal of Information Literacy, 2(2), http://jil.lboro.ac.uk/ojs/index.php/JIL/article/view/ART-V2-I2-2008-2 This is a video showing glimpses of the Journal Club meeting: http://animoto.com/play/9O8q7a4BCuoB5z0VzEDjwg
What information literacy means to our future careers (8 December 2010) Sheila Yoshikawa talked about an exercise with Masters students which involves them in creating posters about how they feel information literacy will be useful to them in their future careers, including displaying some of the posters.There are about 90 students in the class this year, with a majority of students from outside the UK.
Ideas for the Health Information Literacy corner (October 20th 2010). We discussed ideas for the new "Health Information Literacy corner" on Infolit iSchool. It currently has a health literacy quiz by Brielle Coronet, an HIV/AIDS information literacy exhibit by Robin Mochi, and (in the sky) a "Bird Flu" exhibit on a model of the 7 Pillars of information literacy.
Report from the information literacy sessions at the World Library and Information Conference (August 19th 2010) Sheila Yoshikawa reported back from the World Library and Information Conference (the largest international library conference, organised by IFLA) which took place in Gothenburg, Sweden, 11-15 August, and also report from the pre-conference satellite meeting on "Information Literacy: context, community, culture" which she convened (8-9 August, also in Gothenburg). There is an exhibit of material from this satellite conference, in particular, to stimulate discussion: this is now situated at
Children's and young people's digital literacies in virtual online spaces: Dissemination conference. (19th June 2010) This was the final meeting in a seminar series funded by the Economic and Social science Research Council (ESRC). "The aim of this seminar series is to consider the digital literacy practices which take place in virtual online spaces and to explore potentialities for literacy educators. " Sheila Webber? Yoshikawa chaired the event. (There is a log of the text chat from the event at http://www.slideshare.net/sheilawebber/chatlog-19-june-v1 (the presentations used voice, but there were transcribers text chatting key points for each speaker, and the text chat also reflects discussion). A set of pictures of the event in Second Life on 19 June can be found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/23396182@N00/sets/72157624252095321/ The speakers were as follows: Peggy Sheehy/ (SL name: Maggie Marat) “I'm not good at Math but my avatar is”. Her powerpoint is at http://www.slideshare.net/PeggySheehy/sheffield-4544739
Additionally, Knowclue Kidd produced two videos from Peggy Sheehy's presentation: on Body Image and on Exploring identity. The second speaker was Rebecca Black (SL: Starseed Sodwind) “Early Childhood Literacy in Virtual Worlds.” Her website is at http://www.gse.uci.edu/person/black_r/black_r_bio.php and the text which was transcribed in the event chatlog mostly uses a text that she provided. The third speaker was Constance Steinkuehler (SL: Constance Carnot) "Virtual worlds at the nexus of a constellation of literacy practice." Her websites are http://www.constances.org and http://www.popcosmo.org.
Available in SL are Constance Steinkuehler's presentation on the presentation board, some research posters, and you can also pick up the conference pack (including a set of virtual clothes with the seminar logos): go to http://slurl.com/secondlife/Infolit%20iSchool/187/155/300/
Gaming to Improve Health Literacy (13 May 2010) Brielle Coronet (Elisabeth Marrapodi in RL, Library Director, Trinitas Regional Medical Center ) presented results from her study to investigate whether interactive games can improve Health Literacy. Brielle created an exhibit with information on heart attack and stroke, on HealthInfo island (which opened in Information Literacy week!) and she collected data from visitors. Her presentation is at http://www.slideshare.net/emarrapodi/consumer-health-literacy-study-project-2010-final-version
Starting from zero: a librarian's involvement in a major SL initiative (6 May 2010) The Texas University system embarked on the largest academic undertaking in Second Life, involving a learning and teaching environment of 50 islands. Razitra Artizar (Sarah Jones in RL) a librarian at the University of Texas at Arlington, USA, talked about her involvement in the initiative: the opportuinities for faculty collaboration, challenges, lessons learned, and factors in success.
Virtual Worlds in Education... Why?!" (22 April 2010) Presentation from Silversprite Helsinki, which can be found here: http://www.slideshare.net/VirtualWorldWatch/sheffield-april-2010 Over the past four years, Virtual World Watch (www.virtualworldwatch.net) has monitored the use of environments such as Second Life by academics in UK universities and colleges. But why do these academics use environments which are startlingly different (or are they?) to other forms of teaching or instructional aid? What trends have emerged in their use? Which worlds are more popular than others (and why) in the education community? And how is the future looking for virtual world use in UK academia? Silversprite Helsinki (John Kirriemuir in RL) gave a presentationbased on the regular reports (8 so far) he has compiled on the ways that universities and colleges are using virtual worlds in education. The reports, a blog and podcasts can be found at http://virtualworldwatch.net/
Report from the LILAC (UK Information Literacy) conference (8 April 2010) Pancha Enzyme and Ishbel Hartmann (who both presented at LILAC this year) reported back from this major information literacy conference, which had taken place 29-31 March 2010 (http://www.lilacconference.com/dw/).
Searching, shopping, sightseeing: literacies in virtual lives (18 March 2010) This was an official event in the ESRC Festival of Social Science (ESRC is the UK's funding council for social science research) - the only Festival event being held in SL! Researchers in information and digital literacies (Sheila Webber (Sheila Yoshikawa in SL) and Dr Julia Davies (DrJoolz Smythe in SL) talked about their research, with the emphasis on drawing out advice on more virtually literate approaches to everyday SL. The session was chaired by Professor Jackie Marsh, Head of Department in The School of Education, Sheffield University, UK (Jackie Darkstone in SL). Sheila's PowerPoint is here http://www.slideshare.net/sheilawebber/information-literate-behaviour-in-second-life-3469465 and there is a video of the whole event at http://vimeo.com/10346866
From Library 2.0 to Library 3D – Participatory Libraries of Today (14 December 2009) Kim Zwiers (Kim Holmberg in RL) "Researcher, lecturer, entrepreneur" from Abo Akademi, Finland gave a presentation (in voice) and lead a discussion (in text chat). See http://kimholmberg.fi/tag/library-2-0/, http://www.slideshare.net/kholmber/library-20-199312 and Holmberg, K. (2009) "What is Library 2.0?" Journal of Documentation, 65 (4), 668-681.
Information Services for learners in Second Life (December 7th 2009). The presenters were all from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland: Pancha Enzyme, Lulu Quinnell, Frank Lassard and Clint Carpaccio (and featuring the IS [Information Services] Cream van). The chatlog of this 7 Dec event is at http://sleeds.org/chatlog/?c=2119
EDINA and SL(20 August 2009)Nicola Osborne and Andrew Bevan (RL names) talked about EDINA data services and consulted about how they could be used in SL. The chatlog is at http://sleeds.org/chatlog/?c=1061
Information providers in a virtual world (6 August 2009) Lorri Momiji (Lorri Mon in RL, Assistant Professor, Florida State University, College of Information) reported on her study. The chatlog is here http://sleeds.org/chatlog/?c=1063
Intellectual Property (IP) and SL (30 July 2009) Discussion led by Pancha Enzyme (Edinburgh University), looking at SL issues but also how Sl can be used to raise awareness of Real Life IP issues (copyright etc.) The chatlog is at http://sleeds.org/chatlog/?c=1064
Inquiry Based Learning (IBL) and the First Year Experience (FYE) (23 July) Sheila Yoshikawa discussed how using IBL approach is part of a good FYE using the example of BSc Information Management at the Uni of Sheffield. Her presentation was in voice, but there is a log of the text chat at http://sleeds.org/chatlog/?c=1065 and the text of her slides (i.e. the text from the SL notecard) with short notes here: http://dis.shef.ac.uk/sheila/ibl-fye-sy.pdf
Swine flu project & Information Literacy week updates (9 July 2009)
What Information Specialists say about SL (2 July 2009) presentation by Pancha Enzyme and Zeno Silvercloud. They reported back on findings from their survey and focus group discussions on SL for for networking, collaboration and CPD. This was based on their conference presentation at EAHIL in June 2009. Here are the slides http://www.eahil2009.ie/images/Eahil/Images/papers/thurs2/dozier.pdf
Collaborating in SL: business ideas for libraries (25 June 2009) presentation by Sheila Yoshikawa, and on the same day Web 2.0 in Higher Education, a discussion led by Maggie Kohime.
An Information Literacy month? (1oth June 2009). The discussion was led by Sheila Yoshikawa. The topic was the possibility of a US national information literacy month (see http://www.infolit.org/news/campaign.html), and whether an information literacy month/week might be feasible in Second Life. There is a chatlog at http://sleeds.org/chatlog/?c=437
Developing the Swine Flu examples of the SCONUL 7 Pillars model of Information Literacy (4th June 2009) there was session in which people discussed ways in which the build could be developed, led by Sheila Yoshikawa. The chatlog for the session is here: http://sleeds.org/chatlog/?c=417 and see also the page on this wiki Information Literacy builds - Swine flu
The Information Environment is Affect-Driven (21st May 2009) Adra Letov (Dr Diane Nahl in RL) led this research presentation/discussion (pictured above). She presented in Voice, but kindly provided text at IB and emotion: Dr Diane Nahl 21st May 2009. There is a chatlog from the rest of us at http://sleeds.org/chatlog/?c=418
Second Life ... revisiting media literacy. (14 May 2009) Marty Snowpaw (Marty Keltz in Real Life) led this discussion, drawing on his rich experience with new media. The chatlog of the session is at http://sleeds.org/chatlog/?c=404
Focus group on using Second Life for collaborating and networking. (30 April) This was facilitated by Pancha Enzyme, and is contributing to a study on library and information professionals collaborating in SL.
Impressions of the LILAC conference (23 April 2009) Sheila Yoshikawa, Ishbel Hartmann and Pancha Enzyme gave their picks from the UK's LILAC (information literacy) conference. The chatlog is posted at http://sleeds.org/chatlog/?c=397
The Academic Librarian in Second Life (13 November 2008) The presenter was Robin Mochi, who used Voice and therefore is absent from the chat dialogue at .http://sleeds.org/chatlog/?c=339 However there was a pretty lively conversation from the other participants. Robin's initial focus was on her role as an academic librarian assisting a faculty member with his first class in SL. Robin provided a link to a presentation she had given on the topic:: http://www.slideshare.net/RobinAshford/academic-librarian-in-second-life-presentation
Out of school play in online virtual worlds and the implications for literacy learning (6th November 2008). This was a presentation by Jackie Darkstone (Jackie Marsh in RL) and the chatlog is here: http://sleeds.org/chatlog/?c=337
Information Literacy and employability (30th October) Discussion led by Sheila Yoshikawa.
Reflections on the conferenceL'education à la culture informationnelle (24th October 2008) Report back from two speakers at this real life conference held in Lille, France: Sheila Yoshikawa and Leroimystere Alexandre.
Modes of library services in Second Life (22 October 2008) Discussion led by Maggie Kohime.
Developing 3D models of information literacy (2nd and 8th October 2008) Discussions on how to develop 3D versions of the SCONUL 7 Pillars model of information literacy. There are some notes from the first session on the wiki here. There is also some building on the island.
Inquiry based learning applied in Second Life teaching (28 August) North Lamar talked about his teaching in SL.
Research in Information Literacy (14 August 2008) Two presentations from a Real Life seminar the previous day, from Yazdan Mansourian and Pam McKinney.
A Second Life model of Multiple Intelligences (5 August 2008) Zotarah Shepherd described and toured us round the model she has built, based on Gardiner's concept of Multiple Intelligencies.
Using Second Life in a first year undergraduate module (15th May 2008) Presentation and discussion from Sheila Yoshikawa, Maggie Kohime and Ishbel Hartmann. Chatlog at http://sleeds.org/chatlog/?c=291
What is important for librarians to learn about Second Life and what role should they be taking? (October 24th 2007) chatlog at http://sleeds.org/chatlog/?c=152 (this discussion, and all earlier ones, were on Eduserv Island)
Useful information sources and strategies for learning about how & where to shop (18th September 2007) chatlog at http://sleeds.org/chatlog/?c=129
How should Librarians present themselves in Second Life, or Facebook, My Space or other social networking tools, with a professional or a personal face? (4 September 2007) chatlog is online split into two parts at http://sleeds.org/chatlog/?c=124 and http://sleeds.org/chatlog/?c=125
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