adventures in second life: a personal history

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a couple of thousand more unpublished• 294 posts on Yoshikawa blog; 170 fashion blog posts; 20+ reflective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

Twitter

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/