Working at the SW edge of Davis Island

Working at the SW edge of Davis Island
Originally uploaded by HVX Silverstar

This is where I will be hanging out on Davis Island, Second Life.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Davis/0/102/22
Once we are all added to the UC Davis group, we can gather on the island for a virtual meet-up.
Access to two free full text peer reviewed journals is available from SL and the web:
Marty Leamon MD pointed out that the most recent issue of Journal of Virtual Worlds Research is dedicated to health and health care in Second Life.
http://www.jvwresearch.org
Vol 2, No 2: 3D Virtual Worlds for Health and Healthcare

Journal of Medical Internet Research
http://www.jmir.org/2009/2/e17/HTML
A Survey of Health-Related Activities on Second Life

Prophylaxis & Davis Islands (private) in Second Life

Prophylaxis Island & Davis Island in Second Life
Originally uploaded by HVX Silverstar

Research Islands of Peter Yellowlees MD, Marty Leamon MD, James (Linden) Cook MD in the very beautiful Second Life. Using the advanced sky features to change the sky... World | Environment editor | advanced | follow links to sky features.

Hanging on the South West Corner of the Sim, Davis Island

Hanging on the South West Corner of the Sim, Davis Island
Originally uploaded by HVX Silverstar

Davis Island in the very powerful Second Life, where you control the sky, the water and your enhanced creative possibilities
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Davis/0/102/22

Where the sea meets the sky.. at the SW edge of Davis Island

SnapshotDavisIsland-BlogPosterCorner_002
Originally uploaded by HVX Silverstar

So I have been hanging out on Davis Island on the south west corner. Yes, it's starting to look a lot like Library Studios Island. .. just love the 'outside-sim rocks with water animations). It's the work place for various research projects of the Virtual Hallucinations researchers, Peter Yellowlees MD and James (Linden) Cook MD.

Journal of Virtual Worlds Research & JMIR

On Flickr
Originally uploaded by HVX Silverstar

Free full text journals:
Journal of Virtual Worlds Research
Vol 2, No 2: 3D Virtual Worlds for Health and Healthcare
and
Journal of Medical Internet Research
http://www.jmir.org/2009/2/e17/HTML
A Survey of Health-Related Activities on Second Life

Searching for 'medical consultations' using the search function in the SL viewer

Originally uploaded by HVX Silverstar

The Second Life search function is accessible via the 'Search' button at the bottom of the SL viewer window. The quick access buttons at the bottom of the viewer include the popular features including: chat, communication, fly, search, map, local map and the media buttons for video, audio, voice).

Using the search button, I ran the following quick searches:
medical consultations
hospital
psychologists consultations
medical association or medical associations
doctors consultations
and a few more...
On the results list I found a wide variety of locations, groups, avatars... with a few real life physicians with only a few mentioning their real life web sites. I googled a few of them. I was interested to see how real life physicians filled in the first life option on the profile.
What I noticed was that people did not take the opportunity to fill in the First life details. A means for verifying and authenticating RL medical professionals and their patients would need to be accessible to the patient and physician or other medical/health professional.

One of the real life organizations with medical and health consulting in SL is
https://econsults.partners.org/v2/(d4auq5551qskwiqe0l2mti55)/Default.aspx
The Second Life counter-group was Partners Online Specialty Consultations. Their print version is only available via their web site.
The set of images from my searches can be viewed in larger format by clicking on the 'all sizes' option above the snapshots or in a slideshow:
http://tinyurl.com/nlkuh4/

Introductory Videos: Create your Avatars, download and Login... see you in class

The 3 videos will walk you though the process for joining the Second Life community, creating your avatar and downloading and installing the Second Life viewer software on your computer.
http://www.secondlife.com
A playlist of the videos shown below is available on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=D3FC4145B4052788

MH214 class: Creating your Second Life® Avatar


MH214 class: Logging into Second Life (HD 720p)

Also available in HD 720p:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBBnbTCouC8&fmt=22

MH214 Class: Second Life Tutorial in 9 easy steps

Also available in HD 720p:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bAK1kQq6Ig&fmt=22

What next?
Once you are ready to leave the orientation area/community, there will be a lot to explore. A listing of some of the notable health and medicine sites in Second Life is a good place to start your journey.

A recent issue of the Journal of Medical Internet Research is one of the best starting points. Among the many sites listed is Virtual Hallucinations, by our very own Peter Yellowlees, MD and James Cooke, MD.
http://www.jmir.org/2009/2/e17/

SL Healthy Wiki is a great resource for identifying new locations of interest:
Web Resources on SL Health Information:
http://slhealthy.wetpaint.com/page/Web+Resources+of+SL+Health+Information

I can be reached in world by sending an IM to HVX Silverstar or an email to hvxsilverstar @ gmail.com

Selecting a starting point in Second Life: Campus 3D, Steampunk Victorian Caledon, Avatar Island, etc.

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Originally uploaded by HVX Silverstar

When creating your Second Life account, be sure to select the option for choosing your own starting point when you log in.
Today I logged in a new avatar and had selected the educational gateway, Campus in 3D, but unfortunately it was not available and I was sent to 'Help Island'. So I would suggest choosing an alternate community for your first login. There are a few pages to choose from.
Step 1: After you click on the avatar that will represent you in Second Life (you can always change the look later), then be sure to select the option for choosing the community where you will begin your SL orientation. It's the next check box. Be sure to check it.
After you have filled in the form with your SL name, email, real name and also selected your password for Second Life, you will submit the form and be taken to the next step (Step 2) whereby you will need to authenticate yourself by checking your email and clicking on the link to activate your account.
Then you will proceed to the last step (Step 3), you will be given the option to choose one of the communities.
Choose one of the communities.
I will create a will create a couple of short videos on the orientation. There will be many new people in the location, so it's a great opportunity to chat, make friends and share in the academic orientation to SL.

Criteria for evaluating blogs...

Evaluating Blogs: Who is the blogger? Is the content worthy to use in your research paper? Which criteria should you be using to evaluate blogs you would like to be referencing in your research papers. Well, a quick search on Google brings up a wide range of approaches to evaluating blogs.
The following sites offer criteria and approaches for evaluating blog content.


Evaluating blogs as research sources: BGSU offers a section on Blogs on their Information Literacy site (see the lower part of the page)
http://libguides.bgsu.edu/content.php?pid=54229&sid=405279

Blog Evaluation Assessment; 21st Century Information Fluency
http://wizard.imsa.edu/rkitp/assessment/v1n5/blog_evaluation_assessment_v1n5.html

Way | Science, Remixed.
Criteria suitable for impact metrics - moving beyond papers
http://ways.org/en/blogs/2009/jun/21/criteria_for_impact_metrics

Blog Rubric by Marta Valle:
detailed rubric on how one school teacher evaluates student blogs
http://rampup.21classes.com/archive/2008/09/20/blog-rubric.htm

Evaluating Blogs as Research Sources: Questions to consider
http://www.sdst.org/shs/library/evaluatingblogs.html
Published by Springfield Township High School virtual Library

Blog Readability: what level of writing?
smog formula estimating the years of education needed to understand a piece of writing
http://www.harrymclaughlin.com/SMOG.htm

Working on linking blogs from the metaverse to the web...

Registering for a new account

I am waiting for the email after registering for a new account...
Ben Primswitch.. still waiting

Building a display of our blogs on Davis Island

Building the blog display on Davis Island
Originally uploaded by HVX Silverstar

I have just begun to build a display of our blogs on Davis Island here in Second Life. Emily, yours is the first one on the list, so I will be linking to yours. The rest will follow during the week.
http://ehealthsecurity.blogspot.com/
I have added a hover script above the poster that identifies and describes the blog and a second script that loads the web page into the SL viewer .... you will be able to click through to the web to view or view in SL.
These are free scripts that I am using. If anyone would like to register for a Second Life account and login early, let me know. Just email me on the list or send me an email. In SL you can reach me as: HVX Silverstar