What second life taught me about learning

Law Library Journal

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 787-792

  Murley, Diane ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (44)

1. For more information about teaching students with different learning styles, see generally Diane Murley, Innovative Instructional Methods, LEGAL REFERENCE SERVICES Q., 2007, no. 1/2, at 171,
2. published simultaneously in PUBLIC SERVICES IN LAW LIBRARIES: EVOLUTION AND INNOVATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY 171 (Barbara Bintliff & Lee F. Peoples eds., 2007).
3. Second Life: Official Site of the 3D Online Virtual World, http://secondlife.com (last visited Aug. 6, 2008).
4. Second Life, What Is Second Life?, http://secondlife.com/whatis (last visited Aug. 6, 2008).
5. Second Life Wikia, Resident, http://secondlife.wikia.com/wiki/Resident (last visited Aug. 6, 2008).
6. Second Life Wikia, Avatar, http://secondlife.wikia.com/wiki/Avatar (last visited Aug. 6, 2008).
7. The term "in-world" refers to events that take place in Second Life. Second Life Wikia, In-world, http://secondlife.wikia.com/wiki/In-world (last visited Aug. 6, 2008).
8. Meg Kribble, A Law Librarian 's Second Life, AALL SPECTRUM, Nov. 2007, at 12. 13.
9. Id.;
10. Second Life, FAQ, http://secondlife.com/whatis/faq.php (last visited Aug. 6, 2008).
11. See Posting of Lem Skall to Not Possible in Real Life, More Advice for Newbies (But First Time It Comes from Me), http://npirl.blogspot.com/2007/ 12/more-advice-for-newbies-but-first-time.html (Dec. 28, 2007).
12. Laurie Ralston, Technology Use Practices and Desires of Students-What Do They Really Want?, program presented at the 2008 Conference for Law School Computing, Baltimore, Md. (June 20, 2008), available at http://wiki.cali.org/calicon08/index.php?n=Sessions.443.
13. See Rob Hudson, A Little Grafting of Second Life into a Legal Research Class, http://www.llrx.com/features/secondlife.htm (May 9, 2008).
14. See Kribble, supra note 7, at 14-15;
15. Hudson, supra note 11.
16. See CyberOne Wiki, Bragg v. Linden Labs Moot Court in Second Life, http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/cyberone/wiki/Bragg-v.-Linden-Labs-Moot-Court-in- Second-Life (last visited Aug. 6,2008). The real-life case is Bragg v. Linden Research, Inc., 487 F. Supp. 2d 593 (E.D. Pa. 2007).
17. See, e.g., Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Upcoming Events, http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events (last visited Aug. 6, 2008).
18. See Press Release, Seton Hall School of Law, Seton Hall School of Law on Second Life: Constitution Day Program on Interrogation and Intelligence Gathering to be Featured at Virtual Guantánamo Bay Detention Center (Sept. 7, 2007), http://law.shu.edu/administration/public-relations/press -releases/2007/shl-second-life-constitution-day-sept7.htm.
19. E.g., Adam S. Chodorow, Ability-to-Pay and the Taxation of Virtual Income, 75 TENN. L. REV. (forthcoming Summer 2008), available at http://works.bepress.eom/adam-chodorow/l.
20. Benjamin Tyson Duranske, VIRTUAL LAW 14-15 (2008).
21. For examples of the types of problems that could arise, see Stephanie Francis Ward, Fantasy Life, Real Law, A.B.A. J., Mar. 2007, at 42, 43-45;
22. Attila Berry, Lawyers Find Real Revenue in Virtual World, Law.com, July 31, 2007, http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=900005556541.
23. SL Bar Association, http://www.slba.info (last visited Aug. 7, 2008).
24. SL Bar Association, Speaker Series, http://slba.info/speakerseries.html (last visited Aug. 7, 2008).
25. See also, Second Life: Get CLE Credit in Your Underwear, Posting of Petra Pasternak to Legal Pad, http://legalpad.typepad.com/my-weblog/2008/07/ second-life-get.html (July 15, 2008).
26. See Second Life Wiki, Orientation Island, http://wiki.secondlife. com/wiki/Orientation-Island-Walk-Through (last visited Aug. 6, 2008).
27. See Second Life Wiki, Help Island, http://wiki.secondlife.com/ wiki/Help-Island (last visited Aug. 6, 2008).
28. The wiki for the workshop is Law Librarians in Virtual Worlds, http://vwlawlibrarians.wetpaint.com (last visited Aug. 6, 2008).
29. Catherine "Kate" Fitz is Public Services Librarian at Sacramento County Law Library. As avatar Cat Galileo, she built and maintains the Lawspot Library, focusing on the law of virtual worlds. Lawspot: Virtual Worlds Law Library, About, www.lawspotonline.com (last visited Aug. 6,2008).
30. The Lawspot library is available in Second Life and on the Web at http://www.lawspotonline.com/lawspot/index.jsp (last visited Aug. 6, 2008).
31. See Law Librarians in Virtual Worlds, Assignments, http://vwlawlibrarians.wetpaint.com/page/ Assignments (last visited Aug. 6, 2008).
32. Law Librarians in Virtual Worlds, About the Workshop, http://vwlawlibrarians.wetpaint.com/page/About+the+Workshop (last visited Aug. 6, 2008).
33. Law Librarians in Virtual Worlds, Individual Projects, http://vwlawlibrarians.wetpaint.com/page/ Individual+Projects (last visited Aug. 6, 2008).
34. About the Workshop, supra note 25.
35. VARK, The VARK Questionnaire, http://www.vark-learn.com/english/page.asp? p=questionnaire (last visited Aug. 6, 2008).
36. VARK, The VARK Categories, http://www.vark-learn.com/english/page.asp?p= categories (last visited Aug. 6, 2008).
37. VARK, supra note 28.
38. VARK, Copyright Information, http://www.vark-learn.com/english/page.asp? p=copyright (last visited Aug. 6, 2008).
39. VARK, The VARK Helpsheets: Study Practices Keyed to VARK Preferences, http://www.vark-learn.com/english/page.asp?p=helpsheets (last visited Aug. 7, 2008).
40. See CALI, 2008 Conference for Law School Computing, http://www2.cali.org/index.php?fuseaction=conference.home (last visited Aug. 6, 2008).
41. Debra R. Cohen, VARK and Law Student Learning Styles, program presented at the 2008 Conference for Law School Computing, Baltimore, Md. (June 19, 2008), available at http://wiki.cali.org/calicon08/index.php?n=Sessions.400.
42. Id.
43. Some people in the workshop were more accomplished than others. Liz Glankler, Web & Technology Services Librarian, Saint Louis University Omer Poos Law Library, who is Tink Rang in Second Life, deserves special mention. Even though she was quite accomplished at most of what we learned, she came to every class and helped many of us both during and outside of class.
44. Cohen, supra note 34.