[DSIG] Fw: Second Life - Group notice: iSchool conference 13 June 11am- 2.15pm SLT

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To: "JimEd Monday" <cashe at tulsacc.edu>
From: "Sheila Yoshikawa"
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Date: 06/09/2011 04:15PM
Subject: Second Life - Group notice: iSchool conference 13 June 11am-
2.15pm SLT

Group Notice From: Library: Academic Avatar Librarians, Sheila Yoshikawa

Mon 13 June: launch of University of Sheffield's iSchool
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Infolit%20iSchool/149/171/21

The inworld notice had this notcard attachment:

*** iSchool conference in SL: Mon, Sanchez, Ford, Parker, Grassian, Webber
** 13 June from 11am SL time
** Attend whole conference, or the events of your choice!**
iSchool day 13 June 11am SLT, Infolit iSchool (152, 170,
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Join us on Monday 13 June in Second Life (SL) to celebrate the launch of
the UK’s iSchool, the University of Sheffield's Information School
The Information School was founded in 1963, but has recently become a
member of the iSchools organisatio n(http://www.ischools.org/)
We are having a launch event in Sheffield (UK), and also in Second Life.

Times are Second Life times: Start time is 11am SL time (= Pacific time),
7pm UK time, 2pm EST,
see http://tinyurl.com/5uf9wvk for times elsewhere

Location is Infolit iSchool in the virtual world, Second Life.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Infolit%20iSchool/149/171/21

11:00 SLT: Sheila Webber (Sheila Yoshikawa in SL), Senior Lecturer, the
iSchool, University of Sheffield & Director of the Centre for Information
Literacy
Research. Introduction to the iSchool and opening of the Exhibition of
posters (on the iSchool's research and teaching)

11:15 SLT: Dr Lorri Mon (Lorri Momiji in SL), Assistant Professor, College
of Communication and Information, Florida State University. Libraries and
social media. [Presentation in voice]

12.00 SLT: Dr Joe Sanchez (North Lamar in SL), Assistant Professor, School
of Communication and Information, Rutgers University. Reconfigurable
culture: a journey through cyber ethnography. [Presentation in voice]

12:45 SLT: Lyn Parker, (Maggie Kohime in SL), Head of Academic Development,
Sheffield University Library leads a text chat discussion: The potential
benefits of having an iSchool/ library network for information literacy.
with special contribution from Esther Grassian (Alexandria Knight in SL),
Information Literacy Librarian, UCLA College Library

13.30 SLT: Professor Nigel Ford (Nigl Forder in SL) and Sheila Webber
launch the project on Deep critical information behaviour, funded by the
UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council [Presentation and discussion in
text chat]

14.15 SLT: Close. Poster exhibition will remain on Infolit iSchool.

Second Life is a trademark of Linden Lab

University of Sheffield iSchool website http://www.shef.ac.uk/is/
"Consistently ranked number one in its subject field, in every Research
Assessment Exercise since 1986, ranked first in the Complete University
Guide 2011, and employing award winning world leading researchers"

Notecard created by Sheila Yoshikawa, 9 June 2011