Well there we are … all done, and it’s not quite 10:40 pm yet! I was enthralled to read all about Second Life etc, and I have already seen my son play Runescape quite a bit. I note that the Library Administrators neglected to mention an old favourite of my kids’, the virtual world that contains penguins (I can’t believe the name of it escapes me, but I’ve been at this all day now!); that surely fits into one of these categories!
I took a simple route, and tried one of the games on Popcaps, called Chuzzles. I have to admit, it was pretty fun!
How do all these things fit into the library world? Chris Carr made some VERY good points in the overview for this assignment … and certainly, literacy and reading skills are involved in all of them. I can also imagine them being used as tools for communicating with library users in new and different ways.
It is now coming up to 10:45 pm; thanks, HPL “Library Administrator” for this experience (even though I’m sure it’s aged me a couple of decades!)
Over and out!
