Saturday, April 09, 2011

Fostering health information literacy through use of a virtual world

In Second Life, the virtual world, Elisabeth Jacobsen Marrapodi, Library Director, Trinitas Regional Medical Center, New Jersey (USA), Rossana I. Barrios, Biblioteca Conrado F. Asenjo, University of Puerto Rico and I will be giving a presentation: Fostering health information literacy through use of a virtual world (in SL we are Brielle Coronet, Pi Illios and (me) Sheila Yoshikawa). You need a SL avatar and the SL browser installed on your computer to participate.
This is the presentation that Elisabeth Marrapodi and I will be delivering in London at the LILAC conference the following week (we will put the powerpoint online at that point).
The event will be at 12 noon SL time on Wednesday 13th April, which is 8pm UK time (for times elsewhere see http://tinyurl.com/64qzjpw)
The venue is on our island, Infolit iSchool, http://slurl.com/secondlife/Infolit%20ischool/38/35/21/
This is a one hour session, with presentation in voice and discussion in text chat.
A Centre for Information Literacy research event

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