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).

Good introductory article on social bookmarking in the latest issue of macuser….

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42 Entertainment writes MarketWatch, the immersive entertainment agency, has just completed an extensive alternate reality game (ARG) to promote the next installment in the Batman series, ‘The Dark Knight’. This experience played out across off/on-line platforms and attracted fans from over 70 countries….

Marketwatch Article

Why The Dark Knight’s Viral Marketing is Absolutely Brilliant

Teasing Batman

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Why So Serious?

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

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People who are obese in the real world will get the opportunity to participate in a research project conducted entirely in the virtual world to help their avatars – and hopefully their real-life selves – lose weight and get in better shape……

Source : SF Gate

The relaunched open university youtube channel ….ouView

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The Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London has developed a region in Second Life that aims to design game-based learning activities for delivery of virtual patients that can drive experiential, diagnostic, and role-play learning activities supporting patients’ diagnoses, investigations and treatment. Phase II of this project introduces a multi-patient approach. Five virtual patients suffering from different respiratory problems, such as: Lung Cancer, Pneumothorax and Pneumonia have been implemented. The same narrative and activity model is applied for all the patients. More demanded feedback and guidance for cyclical content have been introduced in this phase.

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(Don’t forget to register at the Reception to be able to access the virtual hospital).

Source : Jiscmail