Events upcoming:

ALA National Library week:

http://tiny.cc/Ln3yE

Celebrate National Library Week Using Second Life
From the Announcement:
In celebration of National Library Week, the American Library Association (ALA) will host a series of “Worlds connect @ your library” events in Second Life. “Worlds connect @ your library” is theme 2009 theme for National Library Week.
This year’s attractions and events in Second Life mark the second National Library Week to host “in-world” activities. Attractions open throughout National Library Week will include:
* An ALA / Information Island Archipelago Treasure Hunt. Visitors are invited to explore the Information Island Chain while picking up fun and useful freebies along the way.* A celebration of ALA Allied Professional Association’s (ALA-APA) National Library Workers Day, Tuesday, April 14. ALA Island will feature the Gallery of Library Stars, where visitors can pose for a picture and have it added to the gallery.* Build-Your-Own-Tour of Libraries in Second Life. SL users can use the pictures on the ALA Island to visit different library locations throughout Second Life.* A Youth Media Award art gallery. Visitors are invited to stop by the Lorlei Junot Gallery to check out this National Library Week art exhibit featuring cover art from Caldecott, Pura Belpré and Coretta Scott King award winners and honor medal recipients.
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Great meeting !

We really had a great meeting today and covered a lot of territory. We established a charge to this committee:

Catalog assessment and data that maybe out there and in bits and parts in order to aggregate into a whole..in this way you can use this data on the effectiveness of Second Life as a Virtual World Learning Environment.

Encourage more research

Providing events and support to those who wish to use events to disseminate their research

Reporting on research that is program specific

Instead of reinventing the "wheel" reviewing those survey and research tools that others have used that maybe applied by other institutions.

Hopefully this group will evolve into a multidisciplinary group which will bring all kind of perspectives to the table as many of us have to justify programs and services in SL to business offices, student affairs, academic affairs and technical officers...especially to faculty!

What different point of research needs done:

Effectiveness of SL as a learning environment
The extent to which students felt they were engaged in the second live learning environment and activities
Return on investment
Student participation levels and their reported level of social interaction
Use of SL for Masters level students to Ph. D.


Discussion about our next meeting ... we will put the word out to the group to get an idea about the next meeting and best times/days.

Cathy

Agenda for tomorrows Assessment meeting February 10, 2009

Agenda as follows;

1. Introductions
2. charge for the committee what we are about and what we will do
3. What we are looking for;
ideas strategies for assessment in the Sl
Data
how to house the information data
4. meeting when and how often?
need to be frequent yet avoid fatigue ;)
If you would like to participate and have not yet contact me or Kavon Zenovka please email me at cathywyo1@yahoo.com

Thanks!