Children’s and young people’s digital literacies in virtual online spaces
Children’s and young people’s digital literacies in virtual online spaces
Dissemination conference
Speakers: Peggy Sheehy; Rebecca Black; Constance Steinkuehler
When: Saturday 19 June; 2pm-4.30pm UK time (6am – 8.30 am SL time, for start times in other countries see http://tinyurl.com/39vvq6q )
Where: Infolit iSchool, Second Life:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Infolit%20iSchool/169/173/22
This is the final meeting in a seminar series funded by the Economic and Social Science Research Council (ESRC). The aim of this seminar series is to consider the digital literacy practices which take place in virtual online spaces and to explore potentialities for literacy educators. In this final conference, speakers will consider the nature of literacy in virtual worlds and Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs)
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The Second Life schedule is as follows (RL names)
6am Sheila Webber (Sheila Yoshikawa in SL), University of Sheffield, host in SL – introduction
6.10-6.50 Peggy Sheehy (Maggie Marat in SL), ‘I’m not good at Math but my avatar is’
7am – 7.40 Rebecca Black, University of California (Irvine)
7.50 – 8.20 Constance Steinkuehler, University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Virtual worlds at the nexus of a constellation of literacy practice.”
8.30 Wrap up from Julia Gillen, Lancaster University
Information on this event is at
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/events/digital-literacies/events/conference.htm
and on the whole series at
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/events/digital-literacies/index.htm
