Posted in Breakthrough moments, Gaming theory, Information seeking behavior, Libraries & SL, Virtual ethnography on February 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My Literature review is now complete, including an overview of four major factors I believe will heavily influence information seeking behaviors within Second Life:
Sociability: SL is social, it’s a virtual world where people love to connect
Active learning: experience is how people figure out new things in SL
User contributed content: SL residents are the architects of [...]
Posted in Information seeking behavior on February 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Writing papers, preparing power point slides, giving presentations, working in small groups are all familiar to modern day students in Western educational settings. Students have routinely looked for information to meet these prescribed needs, built on textual and other two-dimensional media. Cheal exposes the ways that Second Life can be used as instructional technology by [...]
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