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Virtual World Watch – HE and FE summer 2009

andyp — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:28:06 +0000

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……..

View Report

Virtual World Watch

Hello Goodbye Lively

andyp — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:44:15 +0000

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?

‘Treating cancer’ in a virtual world

andyp — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:20:48 +0000

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

Wessex Bay Article in Nurse Education Today

andyp — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:42:28 +0000

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.

HSC in Second Life – End of project

andyp — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:33:02 +0000

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).

Google Joins 3D Fray with Lively

andyp — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:58:53 +0000

Google enters the world of 3D with Lively, create an avatar and chat with your friends in rooms you design…..

Get Lively

Source : SLHealth List

Pulse!!!

andyp — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:45:10 +0000

Pulse!! is an interactive virtual environment simulating operational health-care facilities, procedures and systems. The game-based platform is being designed as a cognitive, experiential learning tool for military and civilian health-care providers. This state-of-the-art simulator employs cutting-edge technologies to create a realistic, complex, high-fidelity virtual health-care lab.

Visit Pulse!!!

Innovative Learning and Teaching – Gaming & Simulation

andyp — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:01:05 +0000

Instead of using powerpoint this session utilises del.icio.us:

Staff Development Session : Gaming & Simulation

Date & Time Of Presentation : Wednesday 19th March 2008 1.00 to 1.50pm

Edheads Flash simulations

andyp — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:44:19 +0000

Edheads health simulations written in flash…..

Virtual Hip Replacement

Virtual Hip Resurfacing

Virtual Knee Surgery

Source : Maged Boulos

A Perfect 10 (Exhibits)

andyp — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:07:22 +0000

The HSC Gallery exhibits teleport links to interesting Health & Social Care areas within Second Life – if you wish to visit a location just click on the exhibit to teleport to it. Suggestions for exhibits are welcome. Please contact Andy Ginsberg (in world) or email me.

Current Exhibits In The Gallery (Last Updated 14/11/07)