adventures in second life: a personal history
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Sheila Yoshikawa/ Sheila WebberOctober 2009
Adventures in Second Life:
a personal history
Evidence• 1,000+ photos on Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/23396182@N00/) +
a couple of thousand more unpublished• 294 posts on Yoshikawa blog; 170 fashion blog posts; 20+ reflective
entries in MOLE e-portfolio• Extensive “raw” chatlogs + edited chatlogs of many of the 50+ meetings I
have organised in SL + contributions to other published chatlogs• Profile postings in various social network sites• 2 video interviews in SL (http://infolitischool.pbworks.com/Videos+about+the+island)• Contributions as SW to 6 virtualworldwatch surveys and podcast
interview (http://virtualworldwatch.net/)• Photo essay for Immersive experience conference at Surrey University
http://immersiveexperience.pbworks.com/My+Second+Life• PowerPoints of SW presentations on Slideshare & video/audio records• My land in SL
3 May 2007
15 June 2007
My first SL Relationship: with a piece of corporate merchandise
September 2009
7 June 2007
November 2008
November 2008
Sept 2009
4 October 2007
August 2007
September 2009
Home & garden
Photography
Clothes
Writing & publishing
Computers
Information
School choices University
Work
Sci-fi/ Fantasy/ anime
Gaming
1994-2000
1980
1987
Author
Information Literacy
Scientist Actress
Princess
Artist
Beginnings
Reflection: ZOMG this is so like my first weeks at university when I wrote loads of 7 page letters to my best friend
17 May 2007
Incidents and accidents
http://www.wordle.net/create
Stories about• Appearance• Disappearance• Animals• People• Building things• Buying things• Interactions between animals/people/things• Conferences and discussions• Travelling, dancing, flying• Enthusiasms• Embarrassments• Frustrations• Realisations• ………. Myself, my projects
Stories mostly not about …• Students (ethical decision)• Anything can’t be bothered posting• Things I think would upset people I know
… therefore …blog becomes slightly blander as time goes on
• Increasingly, issue of how/whether I present the blog in connection with “serious” educational practice
The curse of the butterflies, pts 1 & 2
Forms of shopping
Literacy
Most used words chatted in SL• lol• omg• ;-)• teh (MS PowerPoint corrected that to The, SL
doesn’t)
Now find that I always have to go back through emails to correct spelling & capitalisation
[2009/10/11 9:36] Sheila Yoshikawa: we both chose teh 99[2009/10/11 9:36] YYYYY: XXX also is involved with the elearning MSc[2009/10/11 9:36] XXX: Van's looking good YYYYY :)[2009/10/11 9:36] Sheila Yoshikawa: i always like th ebits of flake
Forms of reading & saying
[2009/10/01 21:54] Kunstkammer Meeting Tree - Grey: Say '/423pollen' for particle effects, or '/423nopollen' to stop particle effects.[2009/10/01 22:01] Failed to place object at specified location. Please try again.[2009/10/01 22:07] SG is Online[2009/10/01 22:10] CC is Offline[2009/10/01 22:11] CC is Online[2009/10/01 22:15] RS is Online[2009/10/01 22:25] RS is Offline[2009/10/01 22:27] Broom Ride 2.11 whispers: pause for 3.000000 seconds[2009/10/01 22:30] AC is Offline[2009/10/01 22:30] You decline 'watermelon big(attach)' ( http://slurl.com/secondlife/Infolit%20iSchool/30/27/21 ) from Let's eat the watermelon! Pose.[2009/10/01 22:31] GM is Online[2009/10/01 22:32] GM is Offline[2009/10/01 22:33] WhiteBoard (n): This is the Last Slide[2009/10/01 22:33] WhiteBoard (n): Showing Image 5/6 - librarians
[2009/10/01 21:47] KW: hi Sheila, my husband and I own the TimbucksEducators Sim and I understand you may be looking for land to host the Literacy week Nov 9-15 in sl.[2009/10/01 21:48] KW : we have an area you may be interested in and we also own a homstead sim next to Timbucks for my husband's consulting business.[2009/10/01 21:49] KW : he's a professor at a University in California, and I teach assisitive technology software programs to K-12 students/ educators in Ontario, Canada =)[2009/10/01 21:49] KW : here's our landmark for you to check our the sim at your convenience[2009/10/01 21:51] Sheila Yoshikawa: Hi, thank you. I will check that out. We haven't a specific need at the moment, but some people have been discussing builds that could do with some more space (i.e. prims)[2009/10/01 21:51] Sheila Yoshikawa: Thank you for the offer, I will take a look.[2009/10/01 21:52] KW : ok... thanks... =)-- Instant message logging enabled --
Avatar names have been covered up, for privacy
Local chat
appears in this corner
Forms of web writing
Iheartsl.com community blogAbout 62 posts, as Sheila YoshikawaTotal no. of posts on iheartsl blog is c. 16,500
http://lowprimstyle.blogspot.com/ Just over 100 posts, mostly posting as Dimitrova Shostakovich, my no. 1 alt
Information Literacy
“Information literacy is the adoption of appropriate information behaviour to identify, through whatever channel or medium, information well fitted to information needs, leading to wise and ethical use of information in society.” (Johnston & Webber, 2004)
Exploring information literacy
• Students researching information behaviour and (this year) information literacy
• Advocating information literacy in SL• My conception of IL already based around holistic
conception of information and information behaviour: SL illuminating rather transforming experience of IL
Digital literacies
Photoshop
Common with people who blog/create e.g. “Q: Have you found, developed or improved any skills because of SL? A: SL photography has forced me to expand my photoshop ninja training.” (Lutetia, A. (2009) Interview: Guage Laville. 11 October. http://analutetia.com/blog/interview-gauge-laville/#more-8502)
Flickr
Slideshare
Wikis
Ning
Consciously refraining from social literacy practice of commenting
Conscious subversion of information management practices
Where will the journey end?
Produced using http://wigflip.com/automotivator/ motivational poster creator
Sheila Webber, 2008
Sheila Webber s.webber@shef.ac.uk http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/
http://adventuresofyoshikawa.blogspot.com/
Sheila Yoshikawa
Powerpoint at: http://www.slideshare.net/sheilawebber/
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