Tag Archive for 'Second Life'

Second Life Learning Commons for Nurses Meeting

By Mark Puterbaugh. Published on December 18, 2008 in Events and Promotion. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

Greetings,

We of the Virtual Learning Commons for Nurses (Eastern University) are planning an in-world meeting to discuss the use of immersive technologies (Second Life) for nursing education and library services. The meeting will be held sometime in January. However, we do not have a specific date set.

There are several universities in the USA and UK already implementing nursing programs in SL.  We hope some of you will join us in Second Life and contribute your insights to our discussion of the technologies emerging for nursing distance education and reference.

When we have a specific date, I will post here.

Until then come visit us in Second Life (Teching 10 Island) or join us on the wiki (http://vlcn.wetpaint.com/).

Take care,

Mark

Geeks bearing gifts

By Gary. Published on November 18, 2008 in Events. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , , , , , .

Thanks to Gregg Headrick, who came down from New York last Thursday to lead about 15 of us on a tour of tools and trends in the NN/LM workshop “Geeks Bearing Gifts 2.0: Unwrapping New Technology Trends.” Here’s the outline. Once again I forgot to bring a camera so you’ll just have to imagine the Hahnemann computer lab, a great place for hands-on instruction.  As the title of the course implies, he was evenhanded about presenting them with no illusions that any one tool was a game changer.

Participants swapped stories about what they are using (Rebecca uses Bloglines for journal clubs; Lisa uses WordPress.com to extend the library website) and what they are seeing (I mentioned Jefferson’s OT Center in Second Life; Jenny mentioned recent discussion about doctors and medical students twittering).

We need your assistance promoting an online nursing education survey

By Mark Puterbaugh. Published on October 2, 2008 in General News. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

Greetings,

Please excuse the cross posting.

I am doing research in use of on-line learning resources (including virtual worlds like Second Life) for nurse education. Would you please share with your institutions’ departments of nursing the information the link to survey where we are gathering data?

The survey asks questions regarding attitudes toward online learning and the use of gaming or virtual worlds. The url is:

http://www.eastern.edu/library/Survey.html

We have had a wonderful response thus far and hope to gather more data over the coming weeks. The survey will run throughout October.

Thank you all in advance.
Mark