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Press kit (PDF) Thanks to a generous grant from the National Library of Medicine, a brand new island dedicated to HIV/AIDS education, outreach, and support will open in Second Life on December 1 - World AIDS Day, 2008. Please join us at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Karuna/60/106/26 Note that the island will be open to the public on that day. Christened Karuna , a word taken from an early Indo-Aryan language, the name of the island embodies the desire to remove harm and suffering, and to bring about the well-being and happiness of others. Karuna team members include AIDS/HIV support group leaders as well as AIDS content information experts and educators, ensuring that the best, most recent, evidence-based information is available. The project objective is to empower individuals in healthcare decision making. Through this project, one-to-one health information reference services are provided by experienced medical and consumer health librarians. In addition to providing infoma...

With the focus on "Is there a Life after Second Life" I did a small kind of "class" Second Life for a couple of IDM Hanze Students today. It was an improvised session with lots of discussion, and I did not have a slideshow prepared. But here are some links to nice stuff out there: Want to Learn How to Use Second Life Quick ánd Good? Go To The Best Orientation Center for Second Life: Virtual Ability Second Life and Public Health: http://www.lib.umich.edu/hsl/SecondLifePublicHealth.mov All Health related sims and groups: SLHEALTHY.WETPAINT.COM My talk on Health Education: http://www.slideshare.net/digicmb/health-and-medical-eduation-in-second-life-idld2008-paris-presentation Claudia Linden in Holland Open, Sept 2008, Amsterdam http://www.vuvox.com/collage/detail/09f6e15d8 (!) Jeremy Kemp: From 7 to 700: Scaling graduate LIS instruction in virtual environments: http://www.slideshare.net/jeremykemp/from-7-to-700-scaling-graduate-lis-instructionin-virtua...

The 2 complete webcasts of the Nordlib 2.0 Conference are now availabe! They will be edited into videos of all the different talks seperately, but this will take some time. This webcast shows the main track and closing Keynote: Richard Gatarski : Re:thinking publishing – a social media update (opening keynote) Santiago de la Mora : Partnership Development Manager for Google Book Search in Europe Guus van den Brekel : Libraries meet Research 2.0 Brian Kelly (closing keynote) Realising The Potential of Web 2.0 and the track 1, with focus on Web 2.0 Mats Wiklund Online Games – from player initiated virtual activities to game worlds as domains for learning Charles Seger User to User: The browsing for information through other users profiles Click here to see it: Webcast from the Auditorium, Aula Magna This webcast contains the talks shows track 2 of the conference, with focus on Learning 2.0 : Eva Fåhreus Online Student 2.0 – e-remite or e-xhibitionist? Solveig Bach Sandal An...

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Libraries meet research 2.0 View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: nordlib2008 library2.0 ) Tags: ili2007 web2.0 library2.0 , nordlib , nordlib2008 , web2.0

My intensions were to go walking around the city and visit the Vasa Museum and maybe some others. Seeing the snow in the early morning after a short restless night made me go out soon and walk to the old town. It was wonderful to walk in a quiet city for a while. Soon it became clear that the combination of a Saturday and snow was special for many people and it got more and more crowded. And I suddenly did not have any urge left to visit any museum any more. You can call me strange, but I love to just stroll around in a strange unknown city to get a grasp of it's atmosphere. To avoid the crowd I sat at the Coffee Bookshop Edenborg to enjoy a Cafe Latte, some pie, the free wlan and my new book Gardens of The Moon by Steven Erikson . I did know how to find this Coffeeshop because of Åke Nygren told me that it was close to the great fantasy/SF Bookshop in the Old Town where I did buy my new book. Much to my surprise and pleasure I see Åke walking in the Coffee shop and h...

The wonderful Aula Magna of the Stockholm University was filled with at least 120 people. All sessions were covered by two dedicated live bloggers using Coveritlive.com and you can read it here: The session in the Aula Magna : Main Track & Web 2.0 The 2nd Track on Learning 2.0 Here are some other "backfiles" | Get your Presentation Pack li> The Slides from Richard Gatarski Or the pics on Flickr The recorded video sessions will be published soon on the blog. Blogroll to check bibl.se Folket Malins blog mymarkup, old school and shit RefWorksbloggen UK Web Focus: Reflections on the Web and Web 2.0 Weconverse See also the Social Life Tab of Stockholm University : Last.fm Stockholm University Radio, Facebook, Social Network Groups etc.

While waiting at Schiphol Airport I have time to write a little about the coming event NordLib 2.0 - Get Inspired by Web 2.0 for Libraries Aula Magna, Stockholms universitet, 21 november 2008 It is organised by Stockholm University Library . I was surprised to find a special tab about: Social life at the University with nice stuff like Last.fm group, Facebook and a special network for students. I am looking forward to hearing the following contributions at the conference tomorrow: Richard Gatarski Re:thinking publishing – a social media update . PhD, professional speaker and freelance advisor specialised in social media developments, marketing and education. Santiago de la Mora Partnership Development Manager for Google Book Search in Europe Mats Wiklund Online Games – from player initiated virtual activities to game worlds as domains for learning Lecturer at the Department of Computer & Systems sciences, Stockholm University Malin Cantwell Erik Stattin Great Expectations!...

On Monday November 10th I will be sitting behind a computer in Groningen watching the real life Conference "International Distance Learning Day" straight from the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne. In the morning the real life presentations will be broadcasted into Second Life. Come and visit Selmo Park: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Selmo%20Park/67/174/26 to see that. In the afternoon, starting at 14.00 local time Paris, the presentations are coming from within Second Life and also to be seen in that Paris location. Here's the press release: The US Distance Learning Association (USDLA ) is sponsoring National Distance Learning Week (NDLW) held on November 10-14, 2008 and seeks to promote and celebrate the tremendous growth and accomplishments currently taking place in distance learning programs offered by schools, business, and governmental departments. In support of this initiative, and highlighting the global reach of virtual environments, several organizations are co...

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