The virtual campus of the San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science was recently featured on KQED, a PBS-affiliated station in Northern California. The school has 16 acres in Second Life where it holds office hours and classes.
During the broadcast, the interviewer, Sheraz Sadiq, asks Linda Main, a faculty member at the library school, if it’s hard to have office hours with an avatar sporting a green mohawk and purple skin.
“Not at all,” she replies. “Some of our students show up that way in person.”—-Andrea L. Foster
