Social Networking Symposium - April 10, 2008 8:30 AM - 6:00 PM

Jeremy W. Kemp is a full-time faculty member at San José State University's School of Library and Information Science and started teaching online in 1999.

He keeps the official wiki for educators using the Second Life Multi-User Virtual Environment platform. His sloodle.org project connecting the Moodle distance learning system and Second Life has attracted thousands of participants from around the world and over $100,000 in grant funding. He was the first simulation designer to build a health care education experience in Second Life and previously designed training modules for Stanford Medical School in Flash.

He developed the concept and oversaw construction of an immersive training module to teach heart examination procedures built using Second Life. This five-room walk through experience lets users hear heart sounds from healthy and sick simulated patients and then practice diagnosing the illnesses on unmarked patients. See You Tube Video

He recently presented a full-day workshop at Chicago Children's Memorial Hospital to help strategize its training program for a hospital under development. Staff, physicians and leaders learned how a 3D prototyping tool can be used to preview a workspace, plan transition logistics and conduct work flow exercises long before a new facility comes online.

He is a doctoral student at Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara, CA working on educational assessment issues in immersive environments. Kemp has master's degrees from Stanford and Northwestern University and has been awarded "Picture of the Day" three times on Wikipedia.com.