College Fair coming to InfoIsland!
Call for Participating Institutions:
Info Island is hosting a Virtual College Fair! Come take advantage of this opportunity to promote your college or university to visitors from around the world — and no one needs to leave home!
Use this form to sign up to represent your school at the fair. Set up a display with information and web links, collect contact information from prospective students, provide “freebies” with your college logo, and give out landmarks to your island. A college fair has been held successfully on Eye4You Alliance Island on the teen grid for the past two years. Now it’s time to reach the main grid audience.
Here are some quotes from the 2007 college fair on the teen grid:
-This event is sure to attract a lot of tech-savvy students-Chronicle of Higher Education
-This is my first virtual college fair, and I’m excited about it. I’ll be showcasing the work that our group has done in SL and talking about careers in
technology- Hilary Mason, Johnson & Wales University, SLNN
-What a great experience in preparing for the college fair on the teen grid. Every adult I encounter comments how helpful the teens are. It’s exciting that colleges are using Second Life as a place to try recruitment!-Eye4You Alliance staff
Event details and sign-up form are below. If you have questions please contact Beth Kraemer (Alice Burgess on mg) with the University of Kentucky (kraemer@email.uky.edu), Kelly Czarnecki (BlueWings Hayek on mg) with the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library (eye4youalliance@gmail.com), or Rhonda Trueman (Abbey Zenith on mg) with Johnson & Wales University (abbeyzen@gmail.com)
Date: November 16, 2008
Time: 9:00 AM SLT – 3:00 PM SLT
Location: Info Island, Second Life
[Second Life account and client required for access]
Requirements: Each college or university will set up on a 10 x 10 space and will be allowed 50 prims for your display. Please keep in mind that as a college fair you will be sharing sim time with other users. With this in mind please keep high lag items such as transparencies, sculpted prims, and scripts to the minimum needed to provide a good presentation.
DEADLINE for sign-up: We have a limit on the number of institutions we can accept, so please sign up early! You’ll receive a confirmation email soon. Sign up by November 1 (we may close registration early if space fills up).