How to engage the students in learning, with the web 2.0 tools and in Second Life, by John Miller

Creating Engaging and Interactive Online Nursing, Medical, and other Courses

http://jsvavoom.blogspot.com/2008/11/creating-online-nursing-medical-and.html

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For my college courses, I use Articulate Presenter, Crossword Compiler, and Jeopardy to engage the students in learning with games, as well as to provide slides with audio. The web 2.0 tools besides a learning management system (Blackboard, Angel) include Google Calendar, Docs, Talk, Sites, Video Chat, Blogger, del.icio.us, Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, Skype, ooVoo, Camtasia and others.

The virtual world of Second Life is extensively used for constructivism activities using Archipelis and tools in world. Community in the online world is encouraged with avatar creation, in world classes, and field trips to events in Second Life. Animations are imported into Second Life with Poser, sounds with Audacity, and images with Gimp or Photoshop. Students interact with virtual patients, making critical decisions for assessment, communication and treatment. Support groups in Second Life are numerous and interaction with them is critical for understanding the complexities for those accessing the medical system with major and long term health issues. Virtual Ability and SL Healthy have more information about these activities.

My teaching career has spanned 27 years in nursing, with more than eight years teaching online. For five years I was the faculty trainer for all disciplines in online teaching at a college.

If you need assistance in creating interactive and engaging online courses for nursing, other medical areas, or other disciplines, contact me at http://muvers.org.

Posted by John Miller at 8:25 AM

Faster Cures, a self-described action tank, focused on changing the culture of medical research

Faster Cures - Changing the Culture of Research

Faster Cures is a self-described action tank, focused on changing the culture of medical research. They recently entered Second Life, planning to use its potential to the fullest. Draxtor Despres found out what the future holds for patient-doctor relationships and so much more….

-Pathfinder

John Lester
Boston Operations Director
Education and Healthcare Development
Second Life Name: Pathfinder Linden
http://pathfinderlinden.com
http://secondlifegrid.net/programs/education

Il Centro Mimir in Second Life. Arte, Memoria, Psicologia, Comunicazione

Vedi alla voce Mimir di Second Life Search

Mimir Spring La Fonte della Memoria

Centro Mimir Arte Psicoanalisi Salute Comunicazione Auto Aiuto Medicina Psicologia
Neuroscienze Psichiatria Corsi Online Art Psychoanalysis Cognitive Science …

Caffe Freud

Group: Caffe Freud. (125 members). Charter: Psicoanalisi, psychanalyse,
psychoanalysis. A Group for discussions of all aspects of the ..

Centro Mimir

Group: Centro Mimir. (20 members). Charter: Supporto in Second Life in campo
psicologico e medico. Torre di Non Controllo Underfoot (240,75,1500). …

Lapsus Weinstein

… Psicoanalisi Salute Comunicazione Meditazione Auto Aiuto Buddhismo Free Tibet Libero
Zen Garden Nam Myo Ho Renge Kyo Dalai Lama Om Mani Padme Hum Centro Mimir; …

Artisti della Memoria. Fotografie Sculture Creazioni

… Foto Lavori in corso Galleria Esposizione Pictures Photos Sculptures Machinima Gallery
Galleries Expositions Works in Progress Centro Mimir Brescia Papper Papp …

Torre di Non Controllo

… Psicoanalisi Salute Comunicazione Meditazione Auto Aiuto Buddhismo Free Tibet Libero
Zen Garden Nam Myo Ho Renge Kyo Dalai Lama Om Mani Padme Hum Centro Mimir. …

Caffe’ Freud. Il Nido del Cuculo

Centro Mimir and Caffe Freud Meeting Point Art Psychoanalysis Health Communication
Self Help Psychanalyse Arte Psicoanalisi Salute Comunicazione Auto Aiuto …

Brescia Piazza Loggia. Photo Studio

… Tradizioni Lavoro Miniere Fotografia Migrazioni Popoli Italia Art Culture History
Mythology Mines Work Photography Migrations People Traditions Italy Mimir. …

Artisti della Memoria. Sandbox

… Autoreturn after 12 Hours Keep attention to malicious gifts. Scripts disabled. Centro
Mimir. … Scripts disabled. Centro Mimir. Owner: Lapsus Weinstein. Teleport …

Artisti della Memoria. Sandbox

Artisti della Memoria

… Works in Progress. In collaborazione con Centro Mimir, Brescia; Papper Papp,
Firenze-Roma; torno Kohime, Como Seoraksan 109, 15, 70. …

Open Grid Public Beta/Public Regions - Second Life Wiki

… Experimental Sandbox on Physical and Mental Health; GRID MIMIR OPENSIM FOR HEALTH:
-loginuri http://grid.centromimir.it:8002 -loginpage http://grid.centromimir.it …

Open Grid Public Beta/Map Locations - Second Life Wiki

… Experimental Sandbox on Physical and Mental Health; GRID MIMIR FOR HEALTH: -loginuri
http://grid.centromimir.it:8002 -loginpage http://grid.centromimir.it; …

Seoraksan Region

… Fotografie Sculture Creazioni Artisti della Memoria. Fotografie Sculture Creazioni;
Mimir Spring La Fonte della Memoria Mimir Spring La Fonte della Memoria; …

Low Dose Naltrexone: YouTube Playlist

Novembre 19th, 2008

Playlist: Low Dose Naltrexone

• lowdosenaltrexone Low Dose Naltrexone
  
  The Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) group is an announcement and discussion group for those interested in LDN, and who wish to be notified about updates to the Low Dose Naltrexone website (www.lowdosenaltrexone.org).

AMIA Panel Discussion on Virtual Worlds

AMIA Panel Discussion on Virtual Worlds Takes Place in RL and SL

http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-149486

On Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2008 a panel session of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) was held simultaneously in rl and sl. The title of the session was “A Virtual World as a Healthcare Information Platform” and the participants included moderator DanielS Cisco Systems (rl Danny Sands from Cisco Systems), Pathfinder Linden (rl John Lester, Linden Lab), Cooksbranch Chowderhead (rl Daniel Hoch, Massachussetts General Hospital), Deep Semaphore (rl Rameshsharma Ramloll, Idaho State University), Lancelot Spitteler (rl James Kinross, Imperial College London) and Davee Commerce ( rl David Taylor, Imperial College London).
DanielS Cisco Systems began the session by introducing the panel members and giving an overview of the potential ways that Second Life can be used by those in the business, healthcare and social science fields. Cisco sponsored this panel discussion; the first of its kind (discussing virtual worlds in rl and sl simultaneously) at AMIA. Previously, Cisco was involved in another sl/rl presentation, this time at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) meetings of February, 2008, when the Virtual Palomar Hospital sim was introduced. (see http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-55637
Pathfinder Linden was the first panel member to speak. He is Linden Lab’s Boston Operations Director, having joined Linden Lab in 2005, bringing experience in online community building, healthcare and education to his position. He described virtual worlds and explained that the great challenge is to help people discover the potential uses of this new technology, especially in the areas mentioned.
Cooksbranch Chowderhead (rl Daniel Hoch) was the next to make a presentation. Hoch is a neurologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital who has been working on a study in which Second Life is used as an alternate way to provide healthcare delivery. A technique already taught in rl was chosen for the study, the Relaxation Response, a stress reduction therapy first described by Dr. Herbert Benson and designed by the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine. The teaching of the Relaxation Response was adapted for Second Life and three groups of participants followed the eight week course. Two of the groups have recently completed the program and the results are being evaluated.
Following Cooksbranch Chowderhead , Deep Semaphore (rl Rameshsharma Ramloll of Idaho State University) showed a video of a simulation for emergency training (the title is “Exploring Emergency Preparedness Training in a Virtual Environment: Highlights from a Pandemic Influenza Triage Exercise”) that was done in Second Life. ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1doVBFl9fs, also see http://play2train.org) The immersive quality of Second Life lends itself to doing this kind of work. As well the organization of these kinds of exercises, which involve large numbers of people working in different disciplines, can be easier than in rl.
The final speaker was Lancelot Spitteler (rl James Kinross) from Imperial College London. Imperial College London, along with the National Physical Laboratory, have created a virtual hospital in Second Life (the Second Health Hospital) in accordance with “Healthcare for London: A Framework for Action”. This hospital allows people to experience the recommendations set forth in “Healthcare for London: A Framework for Action” in a tangible way. Visitors also have the opportunity to leave comments that could be utilized in the creation of rl healthcare services in London. Imperial College London also has a training hospital in Second Life where students can learn to examine patients in a respiratory care unit.
James Kinross spoke about how Second Life can and has been used so far. He talked about both the illusion of interaction that can be felt in Second Life and that these interactions can be captured and analyzed. Kinross’s avatar Lancelot Spitteler actually got up out of his seat on the panel and entered into the audience area, greeting avatars who were seated there and hopefully demonstrating to the session participants in rl just how real the feeling in sl can be. Convincing people who have not been in Second Life of the intensity and reality of the experience is probably one of the most difficult things to do.
Finally Davee Commerce, also of Imperial College Hospital, took the audience on a tour of an operating room which had been set up to help students learn procedures, such as scrubbing up. It was an interesting experience because many of the objects in the room were set up to warn you if you were doing something wrong. For instance, I bumped into an object in the room, a cart, I think, and was told by the object that I had done so.
This AMIA panel discussion illustrated many different aspects of the use of Second Life. The actual presentation itself was made available to those who could not attend the meeting in person. Many different healthcare related uses were also demonstrated: teaching patients who might not be able to get to the hospital easily (demonstrated by the teaching of the Relaxation Response), training of large numbers of healthcare professionals and emergency responders to react to emergency situations ( the video shown by Ramesh Ramloll on the emergency response to the flu epidemic), the ability to help form healthcare policy (Second Health Hospital) and training of medical students (Imperial College London). The use of virtual worlds such as Second Life can help save healthcare systems time and money, something of great importance in this period of increasingly costly healthcare. for a description of a visit to the virtual hospital)
Imperial College London (149, 85, 26)
Second Health Hospital, Polyclinic (126, 219, 24)

Teleconference: Linden Lab®, creator of the virtual world Second Life®, today announced that Rivers Run Red’s Immersive Workspaces 2.0

Linden Lab and Rivers Run Red Partner to Boost Virtual Collaboration and Productivity

http://riversrunred.com/

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Immersive Workspaces™ 2.0 now available on the Second Life Grid™

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – October 20, 2008 – Linden Lab®, creator of the virtual world Second Life®, today announced that Rivers Run Red’s Immersive Workspaces 2.0, a comprehensive virtual world collaboration solution, is now available on the Second Life Grid. The companies also announced a strategic partnership to sell and market each other’s products, either individually or jointly, and to explore developing and deploying additional offerings for Linden Lab’s growing base of enterprise customers.

With enterprise use of the Second Life Grid on the rise, organizations are investing more in their virtual environments and moving mission critical aspects of their businesses into the virtual world such as distance learning, product prototyping and collaboration. This migration has created demand for a solution that enables organizations to quickly implement, configure and populate a virtual world environment suitable for their needs. Immersive Workspaces meets these needs by pre-configuring workspace options and wrapping the Second Life Grid solution in a web-based framework rich with familiar tools and interfaces.

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Immersive Workspaces helps solve productivity, compliance, and training challenges for today’s healthcare and life sciences organizations.

Through the use of virtual, collaboration technologies, the industry can drastically improve the quality of patient outreach and support by providing the ultimate in collaboration and knowledge transfer across global teams and colleagues.

» Download a pdf version
For more information about Immersive Workspaces on the Second Life Grid please visit http://www.immersivespaces.com, http://www.secondlifegrid.net or contact business@lindenlab.com.

Caffe Freud in Second Life moved at Torre di Non Controllo di Underfoot in Second Life

Il Centro Mimir in Second Life si sposta alla Torre di Non Controllo di Underfoot (240, 75, 1500)

dove possiamo sedere in un Giardino Zen attorno alla nostra Mysti Table

Caffe Freud in Second Life moved at Torre di Non Controllo di Underfoot (240, 75, 1500)

Tag: Centro Mimir, Caffe Freud. Art Psychoanalysis Health Communication Self Help Buddhism Psychanalyse Arte Psicoanalisi Salute Comunicazione Auto Aiuto Buddhismo Free Tibet Libero Zen Garden

Second Life for Paramedic Students

First Paramedic Course To Use Second Life

October 16th, 2008 - Posted in Health care, Nursing Information

You receive an emergency call. A female has collapsed in the street. You arrive outside the nightclub to find a young female slumped against a wall. There is no other bystander in the area and the caller has left the scene. As you approach the patient you notice she is singing in a slurred fashion. What should you do?

Paramedic students studying at the Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, a partnership between St George’s, University of London and Kingston University, can find the answer using Second Life, an internet-based virtual world.

Louise Later (SL), who is legally blind, will be with us to discuss how Second Life is used by the visually impaired

How Can Second Life Be Used by the Visually Impaired

http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2008/09/how-can-second-life-be-used-by-visually.html

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

People with special needs and learning differences are near and dear to my heart, so this is one that has to be passed along.

Whether or not Second Life is the platform of our future, if you’re attending conferences like NECC and listening to academicians, 3D virtual worlds USED WELL can reach kids who we’re struggling to reach everywhere.

Today, this is what is happening:

Louise Later (SL), who is legally blind, will be with us to discuss how Second Life is used by the visually impaired. She will demonstrate two scripted objects currently under development designed specifically for the visually impaired: a mobility cane and a guide dog, and she will also talk about how EVA (an screen readin g tool) benefits visually impaired users, and her work with Virtual Ability, a Colorado-based startup developing products to assist people with different type of disabilities to utilize Second Life.

Healthcare Support Groups in Online Virtual Worlds, by john-norris.net

Online Support Group’s Introduction to Virtual Worlds

http://john-norris.net/2008/09/16/online-support-groups-introduction-to-virtual-worlds/

September 16th, 2008

If you run a healthcare support group online (be that a message board, forum, IRC, etc…) and are wondering about jumping into virtual worlds, I hope the following paper is helpful.

If you are running a face to face healthcare support group and wonder about doing so in a virtual world, this paper may also be helpful. However, there are some general things about online support I do not address.

If you are looking for an introduction to the basics of Second Life, this is really not the paper for you. But if you want to know how groups function without going into Second Life, this paper may be a good start.

Healthcare Support Groups in Online Virtual Worlds (10 page pdf)

If you have suggestions for this paper, please drop me a line, or add your comment below. I’ve released this under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license and only want it to make it as useful as possible.

October 7h, 2008 Second Life Conference: Stepping into Health

The “Stepping into Health” Conference will take place on October 7th, 2008.

http://www.steppingintovirtualworlds.org/

During this conference, we will talk about and actually visit some of the best and most creative work being done in promoting health and healthcare in a virtual world environment. It will be held entirely in the virtual world of Second Life.
During the conference, participants will:

* Hear keynote presentations from Randy Hinrichs and Ramesh Ramloll(Moriz Gupte in Second Life).

Randy Hinrichs is a managing partner of 2b3d, a virtual world full service company that provides development and consulting services for Fortune 1000 corporations and world class educational institutions. Prior to founding 2b3d, Randy worked at Microsoft for over a decade in advanced strategies and policy exploring eScience and eHealth. He founded Microsoft Research’s learning science research efforts enabling 3D virtual worlds learning with MIT, multicast video conferencing for world leading universities, virtual laboratories and mobile and pen based learning platforms. He is currently developing the “Medipelago,” a series of healthcare-related virtual world environments.

Ramesh Ramloll is developer of Play2Train, a virtual training space in SecondLife designed to support Strategic National Stockpile (SNS), Simple Triage Rapid Transportation (START), Risk Communication and Incident Command System (ICS) Training. This virtual environment spreads over two islands, with one island dedicated to a virtual town and the other a virtual hospital.

* Walk through and learn about a variety of health-related sites in Second Life
* Participate in “Table Talks” on health-related topics of common interest with participants from around the world
* Take part in a panel discussion with a variety of leaders who are using virtual worlds to promote health and healthcare.

The cost of this day-long conference is only $79.00. To learn more about the conference,or to register, see the links at left.

Grid.centromimir.it Opensim for Health

Nasce il primo abbozzo di una Opensim dedicata alla Salute, fisica, psichica, biologica, sociale.

Registrati ora gratuitamente e inizia ad esplorare.
Il nostro Mondo è creato dai suoi abitanti, puoi iniziare da subito a costruire.
Incontra persone, chatta, gioca, inventa!

Vi verrà risposto nel più breve tempo possibile inviandovi la Password.

Grid Mimir

Per visitare la grid potete utizzare il client di Second Life o Hippo aggiungendo la seguente riga

-loginpage http://grid.centromimir.it -loginuri http://grid.centromimir.it:8002/

La Grid funziona al momento come Sandbox, ovvero qualunque visitatore puo’ costruire e rezzare oggetti, compatibilmente con lo stato dell’arte di Opensim, attualmente ancora in fase alfa

A richiesta, è possibile aggiungere proprie regioni (in tema) a titolo completamente gratuito, tranne il rimborso spese (20 Euro/mese per 4 regioni) nel caso non siano ospitate su un proprio server.

La pagina di apertura è:

Centro Mimir Campus. Mondi Virtuali in Campo Educativo e Scolastico
http://grid.centromimir.it/moodle/

powered by

che apre con due Corsi dal titolo:

• Apprendere, Insegnare, Creare in Second Life
• Sperimentare e utlizzare OpenSim
• Caffe Freud

Chi legge e fosse interessato all’applicazione di Moodle in campo educativo e scolastico è libero di visitare il Campus e di frequentare i corsi, ed anche di suggerirne di nuovi!

HealthCyberMap.org

… Mapping the Health Cyberspace Using Hypermedia GIS and Clinical Codes

Welcome to
HEALTHCYBERMAP.ORG

Help Us Evaluate HealthCyberMap

Online Evaluation Questionnaire
(The formative evaluation period has ended on 1st of June 2002, and evaluation data have been pooled and analysed.)

Current Research Pilot Interfaces

HealthCyberMap World Maps of Web Resources

HealthCyberMap BodyViewer Web Resource Maps

Browse HealthCyberMap by Resource Type/ Category (dc:Type)

Browse HealthCyberMap by Resource Language (dc:Language)

HealthCyberMap Semantic Subject Search

HealthCyberMap Textual Resource Index Using ICD-9-CM Top-Level Categories

Future Possibilities/ Interfaces

Multi-axial Classification of Resources Based on Two or More Dublin Core Elements

HealthCyberMap Customisation - Detecting User’s Location

Problem to Knowledge Linking Demonstration: ICD-9-CM Codes as Knowledge Hooks

Mapping Health Problems in HealthCyberMap and Identifying Information Needs and Gaps

Map of Dermatology

Web 2.0 and the 3D Web/Second Life

Under the Hood

HealthCyberMap Quick Tour (PowerPoint - zipped)

Related Presentation by the Author (PowerPoint)

On Quality Benchmarking of Online Resources (PowerPoint in PDF) and their Readability (PowerPoint)

HealthCyberMap Project Proposal/ Summary

Map Iconicity: HealthCyberMap Compared to Another Approach

HealthCyberMap in ESRI ArcView

HealthCyberMap in Protégé (Ontology)

Towards a Medical Semantic Web: HealthCyberMap Subject Search and Problem to Knowledge Linking (Using ICD-9-CM Codes)

Future Direction: HealthCyberMap as a Location-based Health Information Service (PowerPoint)

HealthCyberMap Real-time Broken Link Checker

Partial Bibliography/ Webliography

Publications

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PhD Research Project by Maged N Kamel Boulos
(PhD awarded in December 2002)
Centre for Measurement and Information in Medicine,
School of Informatics, City University, London, UK

The medical community is trying to find real-life benefits from the virtual reality of Second Life

Parallel universe: Entering an online 3-D world
The medical community is trying to find real-life benefits from the virtual reality of Second Life.

By Pamela Lewis Dolan, AMNews staff. Sept. 8, 2008.

In Second Life, a computer world where just about anything goes, several physicians and health care professionals are finding that “anything” can include work that makes real life easier for themselves, their colleagues and their patients.

But in a world void of the laws and protections governing real-life medical professionals, taking advantage of the opportunities a virtual world offers comes with risks.

“There’s more to it than ‘Hey, this is a very cool application,’ ” said Maurice Ramirez, DO, PhD, president and founder of the Orlando, Fla., consulting firm High Alert. “Done right, this could solve a myriad of problems. Done wrong, it is a security nightmare to not only patients but to doctors.”

Reporter Pamela Lewis Dolan crossed between real life and virtual life for this story on the medical-related activity in the online 3-D world inhabited by millions since San Francisco-based Linden Lab launched Second Life in 2003 (www.secondlife.com).

Passages in italics indicate Dolan is navigating Second Life as Annastasia Blaisdale, her avatar, or online character. Straight type represents Dolan writing as herself. In both worlds, everyone to whom Dolan — or Blaisdale — spoke was aware of her real name and her status as an AMNews staff reporter.

Full text of AMNews content is available to AMA members and paid subscribers, here:

http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2008/09/08/bisa0908.htm

If You Think Second Life is over, IBM does't, and embrace OpenSim, too

IBM Drinks Second Life Kool-Aid, Makes More For Lotus Users (IBM)

Eric Krangel | September 4, 2008 6:00 PM

Think Second Life is over? IBM doesn’t. Yesterday Big Blue announced it was integrating support for Second Life (and a few other virtual world platforms) into its Lotus Sametime corporate instant-messaging product.

Why? IBM thinks if an engineer has to walk a customer through replacing a part on a computer server, the two can meet in Second Life and together manipulate a 3D model. Or, Sametime users could collaborate in a virtual world to review a Powerpoint presentation as avatars, which is better and easier than old-fashioned text IM or the telephone because… well… we’re not sure either.

The push to integrate Lotus Sametime with Second Life is the latest move in IBM’s full-throttle embrace of virtual worlds. The company has been working closely with Second Life parent company Linden Lab to develop a set of protocols that allow avatars to move between virtual worlds, and became the first company to host private Second Life regions for internal use.

Source: http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/9/ibm-drinks-second-life-kool-aid-makes-more-for-lotus-users-ibm-

A critical overview of three-dimensional (3-D) virtual worlds

Versatile, Immersive, Creative and Dynamic Virtual 3-D Healthcare Learning Environments: A Review of the Literature

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Margaret M Hansen, EdD, MSN, RN

School of Nursing, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
Corresponding Author:
Margaret M Hansen, EdD, MSN, RN

School of Nursing, University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton Street
San Francisco, CA 94117
USA
Phone: +1 415-422-2017
Fax: +1 415-422- 2217
Email: mhansen [at] usfca.edu

ABSTRACT
The author provides a critical overview of three-dimensional (3-D) virtual worlds and “serious gaming” that are currently being developed and used in healthcare professional education and medicine. The relevance of this e-learning innovation for teaching students and professionals is debatable and variables influencing adoption, such as increased knowledge, self-directed learning, and peer collaboration, by academics, healthcare professionals, and business executives are examined while looking at various Web 2.0/3.0 applications. There is a need for more empirical research in order to unearth the pedagogical outcomes and advantages associated with this e-learning technology. A brief description of Roger’s Diffusion of Innovations Theory and Siemens’ Connectivism Theory for today’s learners is presented as potential underlying pedagogical tenets to support the use of virtual 3-D learning environments in higher education and healthcare.

(J Med Internet Res 2008;10(3):e26)
doi:10.2196/jmir.1051

KEYWORDS

Education; Healthcare; Technology

Grand Opening of Virtual Ability Island, in Second Life

VIRTUAL ABILITY ISLAND GRAND OPENING!

Join us on Saturday, August 16th at 1 PM SLT to celebrate the Grand Opening of Virtual Ability Island.
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. Funding came through an initial grant from the National Library of Medicine to the Alliance Library System and is sustained by the generosity of individual contributors to Virtual Ability, Inc. We are excited to present this important resource to members of the Second Life community!

Location: Virtual Ability Island
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Virtual%20Ability/128/128/23
Contact Carolina Keats or Eme Capalini, inworld, for more information.

–
Carol Perryman MSLIS
TRLN Doctoral Fellow
School of Information & Library Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Research page: http://tinyurl.com/ymljs5

An unambiguous gesture of Olympic spirit and friendship: a handshake. Join in, and watch it circle the globe

As the Beijing Olympics begin, the world looks on with mixed emotions. It's a moment which should bring us closer together, and Chinese citizens deserve their excitement -- but the Chinese government still hasn't opened meaningful dialogue with the Dalai Lama, or changed its stance on Burma, Darfur and other pressing issues.

Even worse, extremists in China are promoting the view that Olympic activism like ours is anti-Chinese. We can't stay silent, but we also can't let our efforts be abused to divide people. So what can we do? The answer comes from the Dalai Lama himself, in an unambiguous gesture of Olympic spirit and friendship: a handshake.

It began in London, passed hand to hand by thousands of us -- now the handshake has gone online, and is criss-crossing the globe on its way to Beijing. All of us can join, Chinese and non-Chinese, and it comes with a promise: to hold ALL our governments accountable where they fall short, in Tibet, Iraq, Burma or beyond. We'll deliver our message in a bold media campaign in Hong Kong and around the world: Click below to see how the Olympic handshake started, sign up to join in, and watch it circle the globe --

http://www.avaaz.org/en/handshake

The worldwide outcry has produced a little progress, but much resistance from Chinese officials so far. If we are to see advances not setbacks after the Games, we need to show both that our voices will never fall silent, and that our challenge is a positive one.

We have one last chance to reclaim the spirit of the Olympics, with the message of friendship and dialogue we share with the Dalai Lama. The more people join the global handshake, the more powerful our message will be when it hits the Chinese and international media. So let's forward this email on, encouraging everyone to join in. "One World, One Dream" is an ideal that's bigger than the Olympics -- it's time for citizens around the world to take it back.

With hope and respect,

Paul, Ricken, Ben, Milena, Graziela, Iain, Pascal, Veronique and the whole Avaaz team

PS For a report on Avaaz's campaigning so far, see:
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/report_back_2

In a representative survey of us from all over the world, 92% of respondents recommended we pursue this handshake instead of the often-suggested boycott -- there's a strong consensus that this is the way to get our message across right now.

For more about the Dalai Lama's support for the Olympics and positions on Tibet and China, see:
http://www.dalailama.com/news.229.htm
and:
http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2008/05/chinese-student-interviewing-the-dalai-lama/



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Click here to learn more about our largest campaigns.

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Teleporting to Laps Grid (OpenSim) from Abandoned Land (Second Life beta grid )

Teleporting from Abandoned Land Linden Lab beta grid to Laps Grid

Success !!!

Laps Grid in Second Life beta grid

https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Open_Grid_Public_Beta

Potete visitare LapsGrid scaricando uno degli

Open Grid Public Beta/Open Grid Beta Viewers

e utilizzando la seguente riga:

http://mimirgrid.dyndns.org:9000

Laps Grid in Second Life beta grid

Second Life for eHealth: Prospects for the Use of 3-D Virtual Worlds in Clinical Psychology

A Second Life for eHealth: Prospects for the Use of 3-D Virtual Worlds in Clinical Psychology

Alessandra Gorini^1,2, MSc; Andrea Gaggioli^1,3, PhD; Cinzia Vigna¹; Giuseppe Riva^1,3, PhD

http://www.jmir.org/2008/3/e21/

¹Applied Technology for Neuro-Psychology Lab, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy
²Research Institute Brain and Behaviour, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
³Psychology Department, Catholic University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Corresponding Author:

Alessandra Gorini, MSc

Applied Technology for Neuro-Psychology Lab
Istituto Auxologico Italiano
Via Pelizza da Volpedo, 41
20149 Milan
Italy
Phone: +39 02 619112892
Fax: +39 02 619112892
Email: alessandra.gorini [at] gmail.comalessandra.gorini [at] gmail.com

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ABSTRACT

The aim of the present paper is to describe the role played by three-dimensional (3-D) virtual worlds in eHealth applications, addressing some potential advantages and issues related to the use of this emerging medium in clinical practice. Due to the enormous diffusion of the World Wide Web (WWW), telepsychology, and telehealth in general, have become accepted and validated methods for the treatment of many different health care concerns. The introduction of the Web 2.0 has facilitated the development of new forms of collaborative interaction between multiple users based on 3-D virtual worlds. This paper describes the development and implementation of a form of tailored immersive e-therapy called p-health whose key factor is interreality, that is, the creation of a hybrid augmented experience merging physical and virtual worlds. We suggest that compared with conventional telehealth applications such as emails, chat, and videoconferences, the interaction between real and 3-D virtual worlds may convey greater feelings of presence, facilitate the clinical communication process, positively influence group processes and cohesiveness in group-based therapies, and foster higher levels of interpersonal trust between therapists and patients. However, challenges related to the potentially addictive nature of such virtual worlds and questions related to privacy and personal safety will also be discussed.

(J Med Internet Res 2008;10(3):e21)
doi:10.2196/jmir.1029

KEYWORDS

3-D virtual worlds; virtual reality; eHealth; p-health; Second Life

Social Networking Wars (da Current TV, in Italiano)

Un stupendo video dalla versione italiana di Current TV. Un ragazzo, come molti altri al giorno d'oggi. è assediato dai social network. Da notare le verità *ASSOLUTE* dette da Tom di Myspace.

Semplicemente stupendo.

Aggiunto: 28 luglio 2008

Da: silentman

Openlife Founders and Ethics in Opensource Grids (vs Lindens) and my Openlife Feed-Back

I just posted this message here:

http://www.openlifegrid.com/LearningCenter/Forums/tabid/54/forumid/3/postid/2269/scope/posts/Default.aspx

Hello, I was an Openlife Founder, since 02/15/2008, at least untill this yesterday message, I got from OpenlifeGrid.com

Your user account at Openlife Grid has been recently updated to restrict access to the following Openlife Role:

Role: Foundation Resident
Description: Openlife Foundation Resident Subscription.
These residents are Pioneers of the Openlife Grid owning a region of the mainland in the Foundation Resident Land Release.

Thank you, we appreciate your support...
Openlife Grid

What does it mean? I asked...

You probably received this email, as you are no longer hold a region in world. So it takes your Foundation Resident Status away...

That was the answer.

It's true! One month ago I paid my last 75$ (90+45+75 = 210$, now for a little, very little more, you become a true founder - for the same period !)

and I ABANDONED my region, Coffee/Campanella.

Yes, so, I didn't rent it, I didn't sell it. I consider myself someone that wanted to contribute to the foundation of an opensource grid, so...

My feed-back: Months of silence

About the big promises of the beguinning, about a lot of very good intentions expressed in so many posts on this forums (on how to use the grid, on how to share experiences, on how to let people walk, run, fly, sail too, from region to region), about the continuously updating of the servers, the openlifegrid.com web server included, (btw I tried 3 times to login here, today, before to success)

so about, also, how, when, and where to pay tiers!

No more mails, as at the beguinning, just some messages somewhere, or in the chat.

So

no mind if the grid was down, expecially when you'd like to show it to friends you spammed about in forums, blogs and emails (meantime, Lindens travel from LL to IBM opensource grid, maybe have they to book their visit some weeks before?)

no mind if, as a founder, I contributed, as many, many, many other to buy expensive hardware and pay hours and hours of (silent) work of the Openlifegrid.com

no mind if also when I wrote about my difficulty to continue to support this grid that silent way, I didn't got any answer

no mind it the same happened when I decided to definitely abandon my region

no mind if now the same region is sold for a very smaller amount, and tiers too are smaller than before

no mind of a lot of other little details

No mind.

But, the meaning of the word founder (I'm not anglophone, but I have some dictionaries) should be 'a guy that contributed to found, at the beguinning, now and later in the future - the time is past)

So, what minds is that I'm very hurted that a short message can delete me as .. such!

If this is the ethics of an opensource grid, I'm very sorry that this could happen. Since I still believe to the strong role of the Open Source (and LL too, as everyone can read on their blogs :D )

So

my feed-back is of a great enthusiasm, I found here, a great respect for the openlifegrid.com creator and owner, and, also, an increasing big flop

of all of this.

Maybe the openlife.com business is very fine, increasing and ok.

I'm not interested on.

So, maybe it's also better that my foundership will be soon forgotten. For ME, I mean.

Well, good bye to all people here :))

(I'll post this message on my 2 readers blog, http://www.centromimir.com )

Forgive my poor English :)

Bye :))))))))

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Just an update: I'm reading today, August 5, 2008

• OL more buggy than ever??Only for me ?? - Bodhi Moo (Germany)
  

HealthMap un nuovo servizio interattivo disponibile su Internet che mostra la diffusione delle epidemie

Google lancia HealthMap

http://www.corriere.it/salute/08_luglio_14/

Il nuovo servizio interattivo disponibile su Internet mostra la diffusione delle epidemie

La«cartina» di HealtMap (http://www.healthmap.org)

WASHINGTON - Dopo Google Map, arriva HealthMap un nuovo servizio interattivo disponibile su Internet che mostra la diffusione delle epidemie. Si tratta di una mappa interattiva, creata da Google e da un gruppo di ricercatori del Boston Children's Hospital e dell'Università di Harvard. Il sistema è accessibile a tutti, è gratuito ed è stato descritto sulla prestigiosa rivista scientifica «opena access» Plos Medicine. HealthMap è stato creato con lo scopo di monitorare le emergenze e facilitarne la gestione.

LE FONTI - Il sistema raccoglie i dati da 14 fonti (che riassumono informazioni da più di 20 mila siti) ed è in contatto diretto con l'Organizzazione Mondiale della Sanità (Oms). La ricerca può essere effettuata per malattia, oppure per sintomo e aiutandosi con alcune parole chiave. Un software provvede anche ad eliminare automaticamente gli articoli con informazioni i ridondanti.

UTILITÀ- «Il Web può giocare un ruolo molto importante nella scoperta di nuove epidemie o nel monitoraggio di quelle già in corso», ha detto John Brownstein, responsabile del progetto. «Molte informazioni utili - ha continuato - possono essere ricavate dalla rete grazie a siti governativi, ma anche forum e blog». Da un primo utilizzo è risultato evidente come la frequenza di dati riguardanti alcune malattie sia direttamente proporzionale a una situazione economica instabile. Si sta cercando ora di migliorare il sistema in termini di copertura geografica, che per il momento arriva solo a livello di regione e stato. Il motore, inoltre, monitora e organizza i dati in tempo reale anche in zone geografiche poco coperte dai sistemi sanitari locali. Sarà però necessario sviluppare contatti con persone residenti nei luoghi meno 'nominatì in Rete, soprattutto in Africa e Sud America.

HealthMap In the News:

• Drexler M (2008) Safety Net. The Journal of Life Sciences.


• Hom K (2007) Before Traveling, You May Want a Checkup. Washington Post.


• Larkin M (2007) Technology and public health: Healthmap tracks global diseases. Lancet Infect Dis 7: 91. (Available only by subscription to Lancet.)


• Holden C (2006) Netwatch: Diseases on the move. Science 314: 1363d.


• Captain S. (2006) Get your daily plague forecast. Wired News


• Pegg M. Google Maps Mania blog
  

About HealthMap

HealthMap brings together disparate data sources to achieve a unified and comprehensive view of the current global state of infectious diseases and their effect on human and animal health. This freely available Web site integrates outbreak data of varying reliability, ranging from news sources (such as Google News) to curated personal accounts (such as ProMED) to validated official alerts (such as World Health Organization). Through an automated text processing system, the data is aggregated by disease and displayed by location for user-friendly access to the original alert. HealthMap provides a jumping-off point for real-time information on emerging infectious diseases and has particular interest for public health officials and international travelers.

HealthMap Publications

• Freifeld CC, Mandl KD, Reis BY, Brownstein JS (2007) HealthMap: Global infectious disease monitoring through automated classification and visualization of Internet media reports. J Am Med Inform Assoc. (Full text available by subscription only.)


• Brownstein JS, Freifeld CC (2007) HealthMap: the development of automated real-time internet surveillance for epidemic intelligence. Euro Surveill 12: E071129 071125.


• Brownstein JS, Freifeld CC, Reis BY, Mandl KD (2007) HealthMap: Internet-based emerging infectious disease intelligence. In: Institute of Medicine, editor. Infectious Disease Surveillance and Detection: Assessing the Challenges - Finding Solutions. Washington, DC. pp. 183-204.
  

HealthMap Presentations

Georeferencing Workshop at Harvard, March 21st 2008. View John's presentation in video format.
Forum One event Global Health and the Internet: How Can We Save More Lives? on Tuesday, November 13th 2007 (slides).
Institute of Medicine's workshop on Infectious Disease Surveillance and Detection December 12 - 13, 2006. View slides from John's presentation, in PDF format.

miELM, Topologie lacanienne, Topologia lacaniana

Il nous est intéressant de faciliter l'investigation en ce qui concerne la topologie lacanienne.

http://cf.groups.yahoo.com/group/miELM/

Pour cela nous racontons du premier livre qu'il est sorti avec ce sujet :
TOPOLOGIE LACANIENNE :
une présentation du sujet".

Le texte qui nous porte par tout le trajet de la topologie comme elle était articulée par Jacques Lacan dans ses 27 séminaires.

Ce texte guide est manuel d'étude et d'investigation pour tout amant de la psychanalyse et de ses découvertes.

Dans un groupe où nous accueillons chaque apport que vous pouvez faire pour le bienfait de l'apprentissage de tous, nous l'attendons.

vôtre,
miELM.



ET EN ESPAGNOL AUSSI!! _________ Y TAMBIÉN EN ESPAÑOL!!

Nos interesa facilitar la investigación en lo que se refiere a la topología lacaniana.

Para ello contamos con el primer libro que ha salido con este tema:
TOPOLOGÍA LACANIANA:
una presentación del sujeto.

Texto que nos lleva por todo el trayecto de la topología tal y como iba siendo articulada por Jacques Lacan en sus 27 seminarios.

Este texto guía es manual de estudio e investigación para todo amante del psicoanálisis y de sus descubrimientos.

En un grupo donde acogemos cada aporte que usted pueda hacer para el beneficio del aprendizaje de todos, lo esperamos.

En la foto, Jean-Paul GILSON, autor de nuestro texto guía.
miELM.

Second Life
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Elegua/199/169/501
Quartier Lacan, Elegua (196, 164, 501)

• JOURNAL HISTORIQUE DES TRAVAUX DE LACAN
  13-JUILLET-08


• 1958-07-10/13 La direction de la cure et les principes de son pouvoir
  10-JUILLET-08

Second Life offers healing. Therapeutic options for users

… A lot of altruism, free giving, plenty of warnings. Isn’t there any digital snake oil here? No fake therapists?

One in-world psychologist, Dr. Craig Kerley from Georgia, who was profiled on CBS’s “Early Show,” has hung his shingle for “cybertherapy” at $90 per hour. This work, he says, “can be valuable for those who have limited choices in their geographical region, have limited time to drive to regular in-person appointments, have limited mobility, and have limitations in their lifestyle that make traveling to a brick and mortar office difficult.”

Still, Dr. Peter Yellowlees, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at UC Davis and a specialist in virtual worlds, cautions about therapy in Second Life, even with professionals. He advises using it only as “a potential adjunct to face-to-face therapy,” and to “use passwords or other cues in Second Life to make sure you’re talking to the right person” - the real therapist, not scammers posing as one.

Yellowlees uses Second Life as a teaching tool, not for therapy. His Virtual Hallucinations sim gives “the lived experience of schizophrenia - to hear voices and see visions” so his students (and the rest of us) can “get inside the head, just a bit, of someone who’s psychotic.”

It certainly sparked empathy in me, much more richly than a mere clinical description of the disorder would have done.

Empathy: There’s that word again, an odd one to associate with impersonal bytes and modems, but the right one. Second Life is a hot, humming thing of wire and light, a “server” - spiritual teachers would like the metaphor - that can carry community and genuine human sympathy…

Cherilyn Parsons is a freelance writer and fundraising consultant to journalism organizations. E-mail her at style@sfchronicle.com.

Second Life offers healing, therapeutic options for users

Cherilyn Parsons, Special to the Chronicle

Sunday, July 13, 2008

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/11/LVL211GP5C.DTL

Lively, by Google

http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=5YbwfOucET8

Centro Mimir at Lively

www.lively.com

Annual Visual Web Convention Leading the Thinking and Debate, London 9-10th 2008

**Visual Web**
Annual Visual Web Convention Leading the Thinking and Debate, London 9-10th 2008
**Visual Web**
(This is a RL conference, and will not be screened in SL)

THE EVENTS

The Visual Web Convention brings together 4 conferences all addressing the next-gen Web across virtual worlds, MMOs, casual games, web 2.0 & casual MMOs. You can book day passes or access-all-areas AAA VIP passes AND individual event passes on this site.

CONVENTION SCHEDULE AT-A-GLANCE

• Registration opens from 9.45am both days


• The convention opens at 9.45am and closes at 5.30pm both days


• The free-to-access small expo and extra sessions are only available to conference delegates on the day of their pass.


• You must have a minimum of a conference pass valid for the day to enter the Convention.


• All conferences start at 10.30am sharp and close at 5pm


• The Legal Clinic is just £39 + vat and has limited availability.


• The Clinic, IP Pitching and Future Technologies Panel Sessions must be booked in advance to guarantee your place.


• All sessions are on a first-come, first-served basis.

9th July

• Academic Meets Industry Summit


• Monetise Web 2.0 & Social Networks Conference


• Additional sessions, including:


• IP Pitching


• Future Games Technologies Panel

10th July

• Apply Serious Games Conference


• Apply Virtual Worlds & MMOs Conference


• Small expo and extra sessions, including:


• Virtual Worlds & Serious Games Legal Clinic


• Industry Consultations

There are additional FREE sessions to delegate pass-holders with passes valid on the day.

http://www.viswebconvention.com/pages/schedule.htm

• Booking : can be made here code on registering (with PayPal button through EventBrite) is HEALTHCARE


• Full details are at the official website: www.applyseriousgames.com

Birthday of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama July 6th, 2008

TIBET: APPELLO AI LEADER G8, PRESSIONI SU CINA PER DIALOGO CON DALAI LAMA

Tokio, 6 lug. (Adnkronos/Dpa) - I leader del G8 sollevino la questione del Tibet durante i loro colloqui con il presidente cinese Hun Jintao al vertice che iniziera' domani in Giappone. E' l'appello rivolto da Mary Beth Markey, vice presidente della International campaign for Tibet che sottolinea che gli ultimi colloqui tra i funzionari cinesi ed i rappresentanti del Dalai Lama "chiaramente non hanno soddisfatto le richieste della comunita' internazionale".

adnkronos.com

Birthday of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama July 6th, 2008

http://www.potalapalacevirtualworld.org/

We Wish You a Happy Birthday and Peace
From all the people at Potala Palace Virtual World

Potala Palace Virtual World will celebrate the Birthday of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and World Tibet Day at The Tibet Sim (Island) in SecondLife.Com July 6th, 2008

Photo by Wizard Gynoid

click for larger view
Back row L to R: Bhikkhu Kamachi, Wizard Gynoid, Shawn Mortlock
Front: Myriam Martinek

The Potala Bowl - Performance Ar, Tibet (96, 65, 25)

Celebrate the Dalai Lama's birthday on Sunday, July 6th with:

11 am SLT Moxy Barracuda
3 pm SLT Big Rock Slade
4:30 pm SLT Azrihal Hax
6 pm SLT Jana Kyomoon

at the Tibet Sim. LM is attached.

Light and Love
Wiz

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Tibet/98/72/25

Franck Poupeau. "Espace Pierre Bourdieu un hommage" en Second Life

Ce soir Vendredi 4 juillet, 21H30,

Espace Pierre Bourdieu un hommage

Ce soir Vendredi 4 juillet, 21H30,

Espace Pierre Bourdieu un hommage

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Fairchang Paraiso/228/224



Intervention de Franck Poupeau sociologue, chercheur au Centre de Sociologie Européenne auteur de: Dominación y movilizaciones, Ferreyra Ed, 2007. Carnets boliviens (1999-2007), éds Aux lieux d’être, 2008. Le sens du placement. les enjeux de la carte scolaire, Ed Raisons d’Agir, 2008

• Le capital militant (1)


• Le capital militant (2)


• Livres › Naomi Klein

Franck Poupeau - La Ideología de la opinión pública ( 1 )



(Aggiunto: 15 maggio 2008)

En este taller, el sociólogo francés Franck Poupeau desmonta las matrices del periodismo dominante, haciendo incapie en dos ideologías importantes del campo medíatico que son: la ideología de la opinion pública y la ideología de la libertad de prensa. Franck Poupeau nos explica porque la opinion pública no puede existir y como la libertad de prensa es una falsa libertad que sólo permite proteger los intereses de un sistema neoliberal.

The Costs of a Virtual Psychotherapy in Second Life

01 settembre 2006

Avatar and Email-based Therapy

Il dr. Craig Kerley, in arte Kamenev - D. Craig Kerley, Psy.D. - Georgia Licensed Psychologist - dirige il Center for Positive Mental Health, che non esiste se non nella realtà virtuale di Second Life - Seconda Vita - un mondo online al quale si partecipa via internet. Il centro è rivolto soprattutto a chi soffre di fobia sociale e usa Seconda Vita come "La sola vita sociale possibile". Come ammesso dal direttore, l'obiettivo è non è fare terapia online, ma utilizzare il centro online per dare ai pazienti virtuali l'opportunità di muoversi con agio nella vita reale.
Milton Erickson, uno degli psicoterapeuti più in gamba della storia, era solito tenere il corpo come punto di riferimento, durante la psicoterapia, per ricondurre alla realtà naturale di sé i voli troppo alti e pericolosi della mente. Nell'aderenza al proprio corpo e nella relazione reale con gli altri i pazienti trovano la salvezza.

Pubblicato da Roberto Blarasin a 13:02

psicoblogo.blogspot.com/2006/09/avatar-and-email-based-therapy

Cybertherapy

Second Life Avatar - Craig Kamenev
Second Life Group - Positive Mental Health
Second Life Location - Kkotsam 169, 182
D. Craig Kerley, Psy.D.Georgia Licensed Psychologist
What is Cybertherapy?



Cybertherapy is the use of computer technology to provide mental health services which are
qualitatively different than those provided in traditional in-person therapeutic experiences. In
cybertherapy, a mental health professional utilizes new forms of communication, made possible by
computer and internet technology; to offer services that until recently were not available. While this
approach is cutting-edge, it is based on the time-tested principles of the helping professions. However,
it provides the client with methods of seeking assistance that may either be uncomfortable or physically
impossible in traditional face-to-face therapeutic models.

While in-person psychotherapy is often the method of choice, the advantages of a cybertherapeutic
approach are unique and powerful. This approach can offer mental health services to those who have
limited choices in their geographical region, have limited time to drive to regular in-person
appointments, have limited mobility, and have limitations in their lifestyle that make traveling to a
brick and mortar office difficult...

http://www.drkerley.com/cybertherapy

The rate for Avatar-based Cybertherapy is L$27,000 or $90 US per 50 minute session.

Additionally, I provide 30 minute consultation sessions for L$13,500 or $45 US per 25 minute session.

Please keep in mind that payment must be received 24 hours prior to your appointment time, or the appointment will be cancelled.

Avatar Therapy

• The+Center+for+Positive+Mental+Health