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 this with a group. So I entered Second Life and I received an IM to [...]
Archive for March, 2009
Second Life: Take three!
Mar 30
Gaming in libraries
Mar 30
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 the screen. It had this hypnotic quality to it as you progress through the game [...]
Second Life immersions
Mar 23
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 got a feel of the place and explored several sites but did not really get [...]
Exploring Second Life
Mar 22
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 users interact with each other using an avatar, or their virtual representation. Interaction and activities [...]
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 and where they access and use library resources. Through the use of a computer with [...]
Screencastic experience
Mar 16
Yesterday, I was able to create a three minute screencast using Techsmith’s screen recording software called Camtasia Studio 6; convert that screencast into a flash video and upload it to the amazon.sjsu.edu server (and no, it’s not Amazon.com) and post it on this blog; and convert it to .MOV file format and create an account [...]
Here is the same screencast that I produced and embedded as a video blog on the previous post but this time uploaded to YouTube as a .MOV file format. I am familiar with YouTube just like any other person who has been online for the past five years or so. However, I am more of [...]
