Meet Jillianna Suisei, Jill’s avatar in Second Life.   Listening to Jill Hurst-Wahl the other day talk about Second Life (SL) and give a tour of InfoIsland was great.  I learned many things that I didn’t know.  For instance, although there are 13 million residents who have avatars in SL there are only 93,000+ premium residents who can own land.  There are many other virtual worlds that are directed to kids (webkinz, whyville), and software for virtual worlds , like Sloodle, a learning system for virtual worlds.  Jill pointed to several videos about SL:

Introduction to SL (SusiSpicoli)

NOAA’s Virtual Island

Ohio University SL Campus

So much is going on with Second Life these days and if you want to know more about what is happening and why so many organizations are playing with it, then Jill Hurst Wahl’s web conference for the Education Institute on Tuesday March 18th is just for you.  Entitled, Tour of InfoIsland, Second Life, this informative session by an experienced ”second lifer” will give you a great base to understand all the activities and excitement around Second Life.  Jill is part of the Tech Tuesdays: Talking with Techies series hosted by the Education Institute.  Sign up here.

Fantastic article about Jeff Trzeciak’s work as Univ Librarian at McMaster University bringing in Second Life (Cybary City), blogs and wikis, plus the training program underway to support this. Mohawk College joins Second Life next week. While you are looking at Mac’s site, take a minute to read Jeff’s blog where he talks openly and honestly about the Transformation initiative and the new groups he’s formed in Facebook, Association of Research Libraries and Canadian Association of Research Libraries.