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?

BBC News reports on a 3D simulation of radiotherapy treatment in which students are able to use a remote control to “give” the right dose in the right place on the image of a cancer patient’s body, which beamed onto a large screen

BBC News

Students entering Second Life as virtual paramedics can assess and treat patients by checking their pulse, dressing wounds and administering drugs. They can also access a toolkit, including all the equipment you would typically find in an ambulance, such as oxygen masks and an electrocardiogram (ECG)……

Online Nursing

BBC News Story

Source : SLHealth List

The E-Health Insider reports that Diabetes UK has taken its Silent Assassin campaign into Second Life. Virtual posters have been put up around the 3D virtual world to inform residents about the campaign, which seeks to raise awareness of how diabetes can cause a range of other conditions that leading a healthier lifestyle can help to control…..

E-Health Insider Article

Our paper (written with Janet Scammell and Michael Martin) “Enabling interprofessional education: the role of technology to enhance learning” has now been published in Nurse Education Today.

This paper considers the development of the HSC Wessex Bay simulated community from both technical and pedagogical perspectives with the curricular context for the development considered and the role of simulation in meeting educational needs explored. The technical development is outlined alongside an overview of an evaluation of its use. Conclusions are drawn around the strengths and limitations of this approach and include a consideration of further opportunities for developmental work.

The summary and full report from the E-Learning project “A Virtual Practice Community for student learning and staff development in Health and Social work Inter-professional education; Changing practice through Collaboration” written by Janet Scammell et al. (including myself) is also availabe from the HSP website under Completed Projects.

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).

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 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.

YouTube Demo

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

Source : Jiscmail

With a combined age of 193, Rose Sanders and Violet Gyves are not the most likely computer game fans, but the pair have become hooked on playing with their Nintendo Wii console…..

Daily Telegraph