Archive for the ‘Instruction’ Category

  • SL… Why Bother?

    There’s a fascinating discussion / debate going on about whether SJSU SLIS* should be involved with Second Life, over at the SLIS21 blog (which I guess is a reference to the 21st Century). Check it out and post your own comments here:
    http://senna.sjsu.edu/lmain/wpress/wordpress/?p=58
    * San Jose State University’s School of Library and Information Science

  • Teaching in a Tea House – Lifelong Information Literacy

    On Wednesday, Sept. 19th, Esther Grassian (SL: Alexandria Knight), UCLA, and Marsha Schnirring (SL: Buk Binder), Occidental College, presented a reprise of their LOEX presentation on Lifelong Information Literacy, with the permission and attendance of Brad Sietz, LOEX Director. This professional development session for librarians, held at Cybrary City I, was well attended [...]

  • R U A Twit? Yes, Some of Us R Now!

    Fifteen people attended last night’s session in Second Life of R U A Twit. The HUDs that I gave out with notecards didn’t work, but the good news is you can get your own! My notes from the session, a full transcript (thanks to 50 Winx) follow.
    What is Twitter? Twitter is a microblogging [...]

  • Adding images to Infoisland blog the easy way!

    Anybody with the proper rights to write posts to this blog can insert images just by selecting website images (and texts) and copy and paste them into this editor. I am using it to get images from the bloghud site right in here, but also from Flickr!
    Just select with your cursor that part of the [...]