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
Times are Second Life times: Start time is 11am SL 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
You need a SL avatar and a computer with the SL browser to participate
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
iSchools website at http://www.ischools.org/
University of Sheffield iSchool website http://www.shef.ac.uk/is/
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