This handy guide shows students how to get the most out of using the internet and internet technology. Areas covered include: web 2.0 technology (wikis, blogs, Podcasts and RSS) that students may encounter at university, good web practice (netiquette, tagging, online writing) and using external resources (citeulike, Google scholar and del.ici.ous).

Now set for release on 7th August 2009 !

More Details from the publisher or you can order a copy from Blackwells here….

Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and More (Pocket Study Skills)

A pharmaceutical company has unveiled a blood glucose meter for children with diabetes that connects to the Nintendo DS and DS Lite games consoles writes Fiona Barr….

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Source : E-Health Europe

A brief summary on the Second Life Education New Zealand virtual birth unit………….

Sarah’s Musings Blog

Source : SLHealth List

Regular readers will note that I’ve always been fascinated by Nintendo’s approach to using health and social care as an area for gaming entertainment (dating back to Trauma Centre : Under The Knife in February 2006) and here comes another one for the Wii and DS systems: Hysteria Hospital

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You can organise the ward and direct the patients to treat their conditions as quickly as possible and design and improve your ward for life-saving efficiency to be the best head nurse and save the Hospital from being overrun. There are 7 different wards to run, from a local Maryville clinic through to New York Central Hospital.

And as previously mentioned we’re not too far removed from moving this concept into the realm of ‘real’ health education dealing with the idea of trying to manage a ward or accident and emergency area with proper rather than made up cases…….

Thanks to our friends at the University of Leeds (and Dickie Mint in particular) we have been able to relocate our HSC Gallery on Education Island – where we will be recreating this project temporarily. It’s still work-in-progress but will hopefully take shape again over the summer…..

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Nice to see the Daily Telegraph writing about Healthtalkonline (formerly Dipex). If you haven’t visited it yet, the site lets you share in other people’s experiences of health and illness. You can watch or listen to videos of the interviews, read about people’s experiences and find reliable information about conditions, treatment choices and support.

We have links to this site through the work we have been doing on our Supporting Breastfeeding Mothers E-Learning package and have been working recently on providing them with an edited version of the package which should be appearing on their site in the next few months in the Teaching and Learning Section.

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Visit Healthtalkonline

These recent postings all reflect a less than rosy current picture of SL……

Andy Powell Loses Faith

Fuzzy Buzz on why Linden Lab needs to read Snow Crash again

Zonja Capalini on Openspace

Editorial: Virtual conferences in Second Life

The early summer 2009 Virtual World Watch snapshot of virtual world activity in UK HE and FE (sponsored by Eduserv) is now available to view……..

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Virtual World Watch