Just a New Librarian

When I was in high school, my friends and I started to play Second Life. It was pretty short lived but for a few months we would play after school and it was a fun experience. Maybe it was pretty ridiculous but we had a group of five 16 year olds that would all get our parents to drive us to my friends with our desktops so we could all play together in the same room. It was fun to create crazy characters, then walk or fly and encounter other avatars. I think Multi-User Virtual Environments are great for kids and teens, interacting with each other. I think they are problem-based learning experiences for kids.

 Also, include an example from either the IUPUI School Facebook or Twitter postings. Social media to me is a concept that I think is kinda ridiculous, just because sometimes it is just a collection of memes, pictures of babies, or people going on and on about their day. But maybe I am a masochist because I subscribe to all of the following: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, Pinterest. I use all the them in very different ways. Facebook is a way to connect to family members and old friends that have moved to the other side of the world. There are a significant portion of my friends on Facebook that post links to political or scholarly articles so sometimes I will use it for news. Twitter is probably currently one of my favorite social media websites. I follow mostly all educational institutions and then retweet or like articles that I intend to read later when I get home and put on some pajamas. I get mostly all of my news from Twitter. I follow a large chunk of historical i...