1. The Past, Present, and Future
of Virtual World Education
VWBPE Conference 2012
University of Washington Certificate in Virtual Worlds
Class of 2009 Renne Brock-Richmond- Avatar Zinnia Zauber
Class of 2010 Valerie Hill, PhD – Avatar Valibrarian Gregg
Class of 2011 StylianosMystakidis- Avatar Stylianos Ling
Class of 2012 Gail Hayes- Avatar Leela Thoreau

2. UW Certificate in Virtual Worlds:
4 Years of Interdisciplinary Learning

10. GracieKendal
http://1000avatars.wordpress.co
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20. Valerie Hill, Ph.D.
Avatar: Valibrarian Gregg
School Librarian
Professor LIS
Virtual Librarian & Educator

21. The Future of the Library
the Learning Commons
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/19265/helen-hard-vennesla-library-and-cultural-center.html

22. The Library of the Past
Learners have always used the library as a
space to find the best resources. Where are
the best resources now? (In the sea of chaos)
Augmented

23. Traditional“hierarchy” of knowledge
Searching strategies Content formats

24. The “Google” Generation
http://www.flickr.com/photos/utnapistim/73429019/
“If it’s not online, it doesn’t exist.”
Ferriero, 2011 http://blogs.archives.gov/aotus/?p=3684

25. Transmedia and
the Learning Commons
http://www.flickr.com/photos/futileboy/3026065024/sizes/m/in/photostream/
Too much information is just as bad as too little.

26. Digital Life
• Participatory culture of information
• Digital citizenship
• Information literacy (transliteracy)
• Internet is like “a book made of sand” (Barlow
&Leston, 2012)
The “library” is more important than ever-
whether physical, virtual, or augmented.

27. Big 6 in 3D on UW Island

28. References
• Barlow. A. and R. Leston. (2012). Beyond the Blogosphere:
Information and Its Children. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO,
LLC.
• Carr, N. (2010). The shallows: What the internet is doing to our
brains. New York: W.W. Norton & Co.
• Ferriero,David S. (2011). AOTUS National Archives
• Gleick, J.(2011). The information: A history, a theory, a flood.
Pantheon.
• Turkle, S.(2011). Alone together: Why we expect more from
technology and less from each other. New York: Basic Books