Second Life

I need to know a lot more before I can guess at the many uses of Second Life. It appears that it would be a good online venue for promtping students to interact with set tasks and learning about information that lecturers want students to cover at the same time. It is probable that once the online reading task has been done in Second Life the lecturer could recieve verification that each student has completed the task whereas at the moment the lecturer can only hope that students have done the required reading of certain text. Learning could take a whole new format with second Life. I look forward to learning more.

Podcasts

Through RSS feeds I subscribed to Philip Adams Late Night Live and listened to part of one program then had to work out how to turn it off. I have been wondering how to subscribe for a year or two. Now I know.

UTube

Todat I found two library UTube videos which I liked. The first from 'Discover a new eorld at Columbus Public Library' was very informative about the services at the library and visually innovative. 'Carl Sagan introduces the library of Alexandria' was an interesting hypothetical about the appearance of this long gone library