IL2007, Day 2: Teen Second Life

I spoke on Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library’s teen Second Life projects (slide will be posted in another post)…
Kelly Czarnecki
They have set up a way for teens to pay library fines in Linden Dollars - and the teens set it up!
take it to another level - being able to interact with people you couldn’t [...]

ALA2007: Participatory Networks: Libraries as Conversations: Second Life

John Lester (Pathfinder Linden!):
- introduction to second life
- fundamentally not a game
- asked “is the web a game?” There are games on the web… SL is the same
- online augments face-to-face just like the phone augments - doesn’t replace
- median age 35
- goal - host your own SL grid (they went open source in January [...]

Computers in Libraries 2007: Day 3 - Alliance & Charlotte Libraries Get a Second Life: Library Services in a Virtual World

Computers in Libraries 2007: Day 3 - Alliance & Charlotte Libraries Get a Second Life: Library Services in a Virtual World
Lori Bell, Tom Peters, Kelly Czarnecki, and Matt Gullett
Lori - intro to second life and their projects
two main projects - adult and teen focuses
5000 daily visitors to the Alliance Information Archipelago and 2-3000 teen visitors [...]

Topeka’s Second Life Library

Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library has been developing a Second Life presence. We have a storefront building in CybraryCity, so we formed a library committee to figure out what to do with it. This post explains what we’ve done so far.
Last night, we held our first event - an open house at the storefront. [...]

Adaptive Path and Second Life

This is cool. Adaptive Path, a company that focuses on building digital experiences, is apparently going to help Linden Labs improve the digital experience that is Second Life.
I find that to be an extremely interesting project. Usually, improving a digital experience means improving someone’s website, or a function of the website - not improve something [...]

My First Second Life Video

This is my first attempt at making a movie using the Second Life movie tools, and it came out ok. In the video, I’m sitting down and chatting with Stephen Mandelbrot in Cybrary City. Take a peek!I have to admit - I felt kinda odd doing that! The chair had a movement sim thing attached [...]