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Second Life: Take three!

thelibrarygeek March 30, 2009 Library 0

Although I have already visited Second Life twice during spring break, I decided to join Prof. Faires and some of my LIBR 246 classmates on Second Life today since I thought to myself that it might be fun to do …

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Gaming in libraries

thelibrarygeek March 30, 2009 Library 0

I belong to the generation that first stared and concentrated on the television screen, joystick in hand, and tried to hit a small white dot with an equally small vertical line so it does not fall to the edge of …

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Second Life immersions

thelibrarygeek March 23, 2009 Library 0

As I mentioned on my previous post, I have already visited Second Life twice to fulfill the requirements for the assignment on gaming and immersive environments for my LIBR 246 class spring 2009. In my first visit, I kind of …

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Exploring Second Life

thelibrarygeek March 22, 2009 Library 0

This week’s activities on our LIBR 246 class spring 2009 are on gaming and immersive environment. Gaming involves electronic games which can be played online or through the use of game consoles. Immersive environments are multi-user virtual environments (MUVE) wherein …

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Screencasting and vodcasting possibilities

thelibrarygeek March 18, 2009 Library 0

Meredith Farkas in Chapter 12 of Social Software in Libraries summed up the usefulness of screencast or vodcast as information tools for today’s library when she pointed  out that library customers are not anymore limited in terms of when, how …

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