The JISC guide is aimed at those who are wanting to use Second Life for teaching in further and higher education. It provides in-depth descriptions of all aspects of the immersive world for both direct useand facilitating others’ use and is free !
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Second Life Virtual Birth Unit
A brief summary on the Second Life Education New Zealand virtual birth unit………….
Source : SLHealth List
HSC Gallery Relocates
Thanks to our friends at the University of Leeds (and Dickie Mint in particular) we have been able to relocate our HSC Gallery on Education Island – where we will be recreating this project temporarily. It’s still work-in-progress but will hopefully take shape again over the summer…..
Second Life, Education and Openspace
These recent postings all reflect a less than rosy current picture of SL……
Virtual World Watch – HE and FE summer 2009
The early summer 2009 Virtual World Watch snapshot of virtual world activity in UK HE and FE (sponsored by Eduserv) is now available to view……..
Informed consent and virtual worlds
A way of helping the mentally impaired to give informed medical consent in Second Life (a part of Imperial College’s virtual postgraduate medical school in SciLands)….
Source : SLHealth List
Paramedic Course uses Second Life
Students entering Second Life as virtual paramedics can assess and treat patients by checking their pulse, dressing wounds and administering drugs. They can also access a toolkit, including all the equipment you would typically find in an ambulance, such as oxygen masks and an electrocardiogram (ECG)……
Source : SLHealth List
Silent Assassin in Second Life
The E-Health Insider reports that Diabetes UK has taken its Silent Assassin campaign into Second Life. Virtual posters have been put up around the 3D virtual world to inform residents about the campaign, which seeks to raise awareness of how diabetes can cause a range of other conditions that leading a healthier lifestyle can help to control…..
HSC in Second Life – End of project
We have now come to the end of our one year rental period of office space on Education UK Island 2 within Second Life. The HSC Gallery was a one year exhibit of teleport links to interesting Health & Social Care areas within Second Life. It has been an interesting experiment which will be written up hopefully during the later stages of 2009. At the end of the pilot there were 10 Exhibits in the gallery:
#1 – Virtual Hallucinations, Sedig
#2 – University of Plymouth Sexual Health Sim
#3 – MD Kiosk
#4 – Drexel Island
#5 – Health Information Island
#6 – Heart Murmur Sim
#7 – Remember Me
#8 – Second Health, NHS London
#9 – NMC Research Park
#10 – Genomic Island
If you are interested in discussing the project further or would like to meet up in-world then contact Andy Ginsberg (in world).
Virtual ability island opens
The island was developed with a new resident orientation center, advanced tutorials, and training facilities for individuals with disabilities or chronic health conditions. The entire island is accessibility-friendly for new and experienced residents and will provide ongoing classes for people who want to search for and evaluate health information.
source : SL Health List
