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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...

toolbar powered by Conduit This Toolbar provides (almost) all Search Tools to find information about Second Life, Blogs, RSS Feeds, Links, Podcasts, Video's and Images. Do you want to find out HOW Second life can be useful for EDUCATION, TEACHING, SCIENCE and RESEARCH? And you want to see examples of that? Do you want to know what is available for sale IN and OUTSIDE Second Life? Or are you looking for Auctions, Classifieds, Events, Groups, Help? Try this toolbar and keep up with what is happening in Second Life. SEE THIS SHORT DEMO! Or add the Second Life Search Module to Your Netvibes account: News about Second Life Search? Have a look at SecondLifeSearch.blogspot.com Tags: Secondlife , Second Life , Search Toolbar , search , Toolbar , Sl , SL Search , Linden , netvibes , search module , api

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention & Second Life John Anderton (Hygeia Philo) interviewed For " Who's on Second? ". See the notes and Listen to it as a podcast ! And while you are at it, be sure to listen to the first ever interview in this series Carolina Keats (Carol Perryman in Real Life) about HealthInfo Island. More on CDC's mission in Second Life Tags: Second Life , HealthInfo island , Second Life Library , Podcasts , CDC , Second Life Medical Library