This presentation, "Information Literate in Second life" was given by Sheila Webber at the Creating Knowledge V conference, Turku, Finland, on 21st August 2008. In it I reflect on an intervention that is part of an Inquiry Based Learning approach to teaching information management and information literacy and report on the findings of the research inquiry (into Information Behaviour in Second Life that the students undertook. This version omits a few slides describing results in more detail, that were presented at the conference.

1. Information
literate in
Second Life
Sheila Webber/ Sheila Yoshikawa
Department of Information Studies
University of Sheffield, August 2008
Sheila Webber, 2008

2. Two themes
• Reflecting on an intervention that is part of an
Inquiry Based Learning approach to teaching
information management and information literacy
• Reporting on the findings of the research inquiry
(into Information Behaviour (IB) in Second Life (SL)
that the students undertook
Sheila Webber, 2008

3. Outline
• Inquiry Based Learning
• Focus for the intervention: Inf104 Information
Literacy
• Second Life (SL) some SL information tools
• The study of IB
in Second Life
Sheila Webber, 2008