Multiple intelligences discussion in Second life

This is a notice about discussions taking place with Second Life (SL), the virtual world: you need a SL avatar to take part.

As part of the discussion series on Infolit iSchool, Zotarah Shepherd will be talking about using Multiple Intelligences in education in Second Life, on Tuesday 5th August starting at 12 noon SL time (8pm UK time). This one-hour discussion starts on Infolit iSchool (Sakura House) in Second Life and will include a visit to her model of multiple intelligences on Koru.  Start venue: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Infolit20iSchool/45/202/22

Further events scheduled currently are as follows (there will be events in September but we're still planning those out):

Thursday 14th August 8am SL time
I lead a discussion on information behaviour and information literacy, following on from a RL research seminar at Sheffield University the previous day.

Thursday 28th August  12 noon SL time
North Lamar (University of Texas at Austin, USA) will discuss Inquiry Based learning in relation to his teaching in SL (see http://educatorscoop.org/).

Thursday 23rd October. 8am SL time.
Impressions from the French information literacy conference: International colloquium « Educational approaches to information culture » October 16, 17, 18, Lille, France

Thursday November 13th. 12 noon SL time.
Robin Mochi talks about her experiences, as an academic librarian at George Fox University (USA) working with academics and students in SL.

Thursday November 27th. 12 noon SL time.
“Relive Relived” I (and anyone else who comes along!) share experiences from the Relive08 conference held at the Open University the previous week.