How the Nintendo video game Fun Center helps children in hospital….

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Souce – Games for health email group

New York Times article last spring about a laparoscopic surgeon who has been experimenting with off-the-shelf games as training tools.

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From Games-for-Health mailing list care of Alan Au…

Technological advances mean that now even dentists and surgeons can study by correspondence, writes Tatum Anderson in Education Guardian (distance-learning courses from the universities of London and Edinburgh)

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The Technology Guardian List of 100 useful sites – worth a look if you missed it (of special note are the sections for blogs, social software and virtual worlds)

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Guardian Organ Grinder reports that Habbo Hotel, the virtual world, is trialing a mobile version in Finland and its parent company Sulake will start rolling out various mobile services in early 2007… plus other companies are also looking to expand in this area.

Exciting times for handheld education in prospect next year !

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My article on the Cohehre Virtual Europe project has now been published. This is an innovative and exciting 3 year virtual learning project set within a European Context. This project runs from June 2006 – May 2009.

Scenes From a Virtual Europe
Published in
Journal Of Allied Health
Winter 2006, Volume 35, Number 4

More on Virtual Europe

From last week’s Inside Digital Media section of the media guardian looking at the increasing commercial side of blogging…..

Monday November 28, 2005 – The Guardian

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Interesting Guardian article on Mp3 blogging – another use for blogs. A downside for the music industry – a quick glimpse around the web and you can obtain The Strokes new album (due for official release on January 3rd 2006) via a blog rather than through a P2P system.

Thursday April 14, 2005 – The Guardian

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Wikipedia entry for new album for the Strokes

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