Additional Notes

Fleep Tuque is the founder of the Chilbo Community Building Project, and is also involved in a number of other endeavors in Second Life, including supporting the use of virtual worlds for education, collaboration, and in support of arts and culture in the metaverse.

Professionally, Fleep founded the University of Cincinnati Second Life Learning Community and also serves as the Second Life Ambassador for the Ohio Learning Network. In 2007, she co-chaired the Second Life Best Practices in Education conference, the first 24 hour, international education conference to be held in a virtual world, and more recently published an observational survey of educational institutions in Second Life entitled “Virtual or Virtually U: Education Institutions in Second Life” with SL colleague Sweetpea Sunnyside.

Fleep maintains a personal blog, Fleep’s Deep Thoughts, and has an abiding interest in how social media and virtual worlds will impact our economic, political, social and cultural systems in the coming years. She currently lives in Cincinnati, OH with her bazillion cats.