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Steering Committee, World Health Organization’s Orally Transmitted Infectious Diseases Center at the University of Pennsylvania.
Committee for the Development of Educational Technology, School of Dental Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.
Workgroup, Ivy Dental Consortium (Harvard, Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania) , School of Dental Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.
Dean’s Strategic Planning Committee for Continuing and Distance Education, School of Dental Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.
Dean’s Strategic Planning Committee for Educational Technology, School of Dental Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.
Grants and Awards:
Donald A. B. Lindberg Research Fellowship for the Virtual Learning Commons for Nurses evaluating a virtual 3-D environment as a tool to enhance student nursing and facilitate access to nursing, medical and healthcare information. Medical Library Association.
Small Projects Award for the Basic Research for Nurses website - bilingual Korean/English tool, The Middle Atlantic Region (MAR) of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM).
Special Projects:
Project Director for the Warner Memorial Library's Virtual Learning Commons in Second Life .
Chair and Webmaster for the Philadelphia Area (SIRSI) Unicorn Users Group.
Webmaster for Tri-state College Library Cooperative (TCLC).
Project Director for the VBI (Virtual Bibliographic Instruction) in Activeworlds Education Universe .
Presentations:
Another Life: A Survey of Health and Medical Sites in Virtual Three-Dimensional Worlds, poster session, presented at the MLA08 Conference, Chicago, Il.May 19th 2008.
Migrating to Athens, IP Independent Access to E-Resources, poster session, presented at the PALINET07 Conference, Baltimore, MD, October 30th, 2007.
The Virtual Learning Commons: Moving Towards a ‘Great Good Place’, presented at the Tri-State College Library Cooperative Spring Conference, American College, Bryn Mawr, PA, April 24th 2007
Building an Online Virtual Community at the 22ndt Annual Computers in Libraries Conference, April 16th, 2007
An Introduction to Virtual Social Worlds for Temple University Library System, March 13th, 2007
VBI: A Virtual Social World for the ACRL Fall Virtual Institute, November 9th, 2006.
An Introduction to Virtual Social Worlds at the 12th Annual Technology and Learning Conference at Montgomery County Community College, October 6th, 2006
Library and Technology Collide: Simulation and Gaming at the Federal Library Information Center Committee presented at the Library of Congress, April 3rd, 2006.
Gaming and Libraries: Gaming Software for Virtual Reference presented at the 21st Annual Computers in Libraries Conference, Washington, DC, March 22nd, 2006.
