The Serious Virtual Worlds report focuses on virtual worlds for educational uses, and explores the ‘serious’ – as opposed to leisure-based – uses of virtual worlds…….

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Recently seen out and about in the shops….

My Health Coach: Stop Smoking brings Allen Carr’s method to Nintendo DS. Developed in conjunction with Allen Carr’s experts, the game hopes to make users understand all the illusions about smoking that prevent them from quitting through powerful facts brought by experts and fun games……

Ubisoft Site

Time to coin a catchy title for these sorts of developments – what I am now going to call M-Learning For Health (ML4H)

Google shuts it’s virtual world Lively …..

Lively No More

and the register has it’s own unique take on it …..

Google torches own brand Sadville

Begging the question where do our avatars go when their worlds are destroyed?

A short case study report on our Nintendo DS and Brain Training/Big Brain Academy/Opera Browser TechDis projects has now been published on the HEA Social Policy and Social Work Subject Centre Website…

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Well we didn’t win on the night but had a great time at the Handheld Learning Awards in October (which seems ages ago now). JISC TechDis have just issued a press release about the event which provides a nice coda and I’ve also submitted a precis of our findings as a SWAP case study which should soon see the light of day…..

JISC TechDis Press Release

TweetDeck is an Adobe Air desktop application that is currently in beta. It aims to evolve the existing functionality of Twitter by taking an abundance of information i.e twitter feeds, and breaking it down into more manageable bite sized pieces.

After testing it for a few days I think it’s a really cool piece of software as it allows you to organise and manage your twitter feeds into groups that make sense to you (almost like interactive rss feeds) and even better it’s quick and simple to use and looks a lot nicer than the front end of twitter.

Good stuff………….

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Various links about the use of twitter with diabetes sufferers. First off, in 2007 to increase awareness of Diabetes and raise money for the ADA Scott Hanselman twittered his diabetes…..
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Tu Diabetes has Success with Twitter

Sugarstats & Twitter Integration

Twitter: Smaller than a blog, better than Instant Messaging

Twitter has great potential as a health education and quality of life tool and it was well past time when I should have an account so here we go again……..

Follow me on Twitter

47 top twitter sites and services

Tweet Tweet etc …………….

Joshua Schwimmer blogs about medical uses of the iPhone from last year but still relevant and interesting (!)

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