TODAY Information/health literacy events
(From Sheila Webber, Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield)
When: Thursday June 3rd Where; Infolit iSchool (& tour to Tseshkovsky), Second Life.
7 am SL time (= 3pm UK time) presentation “Information Literacy for 21st Century Life”
8 am SL time (= 4pm UK time) reports and discussion on recent conferences
Plus at 9am SLT (en Espanol) and 12 noon SLT: repeat event: Pi Illios (Universidad Puerto Rico) Literacia en Salud en Second Life (en Espanol, 9am) / Health Literacy in Second Life (in English, noon SL time = 8pm UK time).
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7am SL time (see http://tinyurl.com/38755tv for time in other countries):
Presentation from Sheila Yoshikawa (Sheila Webber in RL, University of Sheffield) on “Information Literacy for 21st Century Life” (as presented at the Oeiras a Ler conference in Lisbon, Portugal, in May, with some amendment).
Venue: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Infolit%20iSchool/147/170/21
In this presentation Sheila will elaborate a definition of information literacy and give examples of what information, and information literacy, mean in a number of contexts (e.g. in computer gaming, in a workplace, for “tweens”) and sum up key messages about IL in the 21st Century.
8 am SL time (see http://tinyurl.com/2vlrgup for times in other countries):
Report back from recent conferences (Oeiras a Ler, Informa 2010, and any others participants have been to recently!)
Venue: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Infolit%20iSchool/43/203/22/
9am SL time (see http://tinyurl.com/3aznlgt for times in other countries):
Literacia en Salud en Second Life ( en Espanol: Pi Illios, University of Puerto Rico)
Venue: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Infolit%20iSchool/190/215/749/
La Biblioteca Conrado F. Asenjo en el Recinto de Ciencias Médicas de la Universidad de Puerto Rico lleva a cabo un proyecto de Literacia y alfabetización en salud dirigido a hispnos que residen en Second Life . La literatura profesional señala que el 31,5% de los pacientes de habla inglesa y el 61,7% de habla española presentan una inadecuada o marginal alfabetización funcional en salud. La plataforma virtual Second Life tiene una población considerable de hispanosparlantes (alrededor de un 11.8 %) que residen en en este mundo virtual por infinidad de razones. Nuestro objetivo es enseñar y orientar al residente hispano en SL a encontrar información de salud confiable, actualizada y adecuada a sus necesidades. see https://sites.google.com/a/upr.edu/tusaludbuscadistingueaprende/?AuthEventSource=SSO
12 noon SL time (see http://tinyurl.com/369bq3u for times in other countries):
“Health Literacy in Second Life” (talk and tour; in English: Pi Illios, University of Puerto Rico)
Venue: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Infolit%20iSchool/129/242/22/
The Conrado F. Asenjo health library of the University of Puerto Rico has created a prototype for health literacy to help Hispanic residents in Second Life. This is responding to the factthat surveys have shown that people have poor health literacy (31.5% of English speakers and 61.7 Spanish speakers). They have used teh platform of Second Life to create a prototype informative build. Pi Illios with introduce their work, and then take people on a tour of the build on Tseshkovsky. see
https://sites.google.com/a/upr.edu/tusaludbuscadistingueaprende/eventos-events-in-world/libraryweekpresentation/proyecto-piloto/salud-e-hispanos/home-page-english-version
