I'm Joe Cupola, librarian denizen of the virtual world, Second Life.  I've started this blog to post about activities and events of interest to librarians and educators who are interested in the educational uses of virtual worlds.  I will detail the activities of several groups I'm involved with including the ACRL-Virtual Worlds Interest Group.

This weekend was the first program of the ACRL Virtual Worlds Interest Group.  On the program:

 

 

 

 

The ALA-ACRL Virtual World Interest Group Program: Sunday, July 28th noon-2pm SLT

Minecraft & Digital Citizenship
An after school club built a game to promote digital citizenship in Minecraft. The project will be discussed along with the topic of gamification in education.

Presenter- Dr. Valerie Hill, PhD

 

 

It was a great turnout, 24 people dropped by to hear Dr. Hill's program on the use of Minecraft to build digital citizenship, and cyber safety. Using a gamification project with her 5th grader class, she helped her students develop and execute a project which used project based learing to build real world learning skills. Here are some photos of the meeting.  (Click the image for a larger view.)

 

 Attendee's gather

 

 There was a lot of interest in this topic

  

Dr. Hill introduces the topic

Project Goals

 

What is Minecraft?

 

Alexandra provided connections to academic libraries.

 

 

Step by Step

 

 

Sucess!

 

 All in all it was a fascinating presentation.  For more information about the project, see Dr. Hills' blog at:

 

5th Grade Game Designers in the Library