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Getting to know Doctor Ann Buchanan at the Ann Myers Medical Center who envisions a hospital where medical students and nurses could be trained….

Source : ScienceRoll

Education guardian on virtual campuses…..

Source: Education Guardian

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Ymogen are working with Nokia and BBC Innovation to produce Geo-Stories, an innovative ‘citizen story’ project, which explores how content (video, pictures and text) combined with location and time can most effectively be used to create crowd pulling stories…..

Source : Geo-Stories

Curling up with a good ebook Andrew Marr is “reluctantly impressed” with the iRex Iliad - interesting if they are coming to educational technology once the price comes down a bit…..

More on the iRex Iliad

Source : Media Guardian - New Media

A follow up from Roo Reynolds talk from yesterday - a group of techie/creative people working in and around IBM’s Hursley Park Lab in the UK in an unofficial blog….

Back from the Eduserv Symposium on “Virtual Worlds, Real Learning” in London yesterday. Great presentations on what can be achieved and some of the possibilities of Virtual Environments.

Gilly Salmon’s SEAL project presentation also sounded interesting and looks like something it would be worth getting involved with in some way. I was also interested to hear about the forthcoming Infection Control simulation that Sara De Freitas mentioned.

Although the focus was mostly on Second Life there are lots of other environments out there to investigate - a few examples being gogofrog, cyworld and there.com as demonstrated in Roo Reynolds talk (as well as IBM’s own in-house virtual environment currently being developed).

Finally, a stunning session from Stephen Downes putting Virtual Worlds in context that tempered some of the excitement. As everyone starts to pile in to Virtual Worlds without always having a clear educational reason for doing so this made a lot of sense and asked some interesting proprietary questions. But there are still tremendous opportunities ahead.

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Catching up with Wired from February 2007 and an interesting use of avatars by MTV on Virtual Laguna Beach…the potential and social networking aspects of this environment are what might appeal to educators looking to hook into the next generation of students who are fast getting used to this sort of 3d experience in their everyday life.

Source : Wired 15.02