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Archive of Past Events 2008-08
2008-08-16 thru 2008-08-31
Chilbo Summer Fair
August 31, 2008
1pm SLT - Presentation: HIV 101: What is HIV and How Does it Attack the Immune System? -
Lizzette Zenovka
Location: AIDS Quilt Display Site
SLurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Madhupak/130/80/60
2008-08-16
VIRTUAL ABILITY ISLAND GRAND OPENING!
Join us on Saturday, August 16th at 1 PM SLT to celebrate the Grand Opening of Virtual Ability Island.
The island was developed with a new resident orientation center, advanced tutorials, and training facilities for individuals with disabilities or chronic health conditions. The entire island is accessibility-friendly for new and experienced residents and will provide ongoing classes for people who want to search for and evaluate health information. Funding came through an initial grant from the National Library of Medicine to theAlliance Library Systemand is sustained by the generosity of individual contributors to Virtual Ability, Inc. We are excited to present this important resource to members of the Second Life community!
Location: Virtual Ability Island
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Virtual%20Ability/128/128/23
Contact Carolina Keats or Eme Capalini, inworld, for more information.
http://tinyurl.com/ymljs5
2008-08-09
Great Strides Charity Auction - Come party and get some great deals!
When? Sat 9 Aug - 11:00 AM SL Time for 3 hours (No Cover Charge)
Come bid on a yacht (from Trudeau), a tour of the Elven lands, horses (AKK Stables and more), artwork (from Annah DeCuir, Ronnie Rhode and more), jewelry, buildings (from Oldrome Yer and others), and much more! All proceeds will benefit Great Strides, a RL charity.
Great Strides mission is to promote emotional healing and growth in partnership with horses. Learn more at: http://www.GreatStrides.org.
Location: Oldrome Yer's sim: Pantheon (85, 112,34)
Please forward to your friends and I hope to see you there!
Veri
Veri Oddfellow (SL)
Brad Lewis (RL)
Board Chair
Great Strides
www.GreatStrides.org
2008-08-05 and 2008-08-06
Second Life Calling medical librarians (or 'just' library folks)!
Place: Healthinfo Island
Dates: Tuesday, August 5 OR Wednesday August 6
Time: 3:30 p.m. Second Life (Pacific) time, for both days.
If you cannot attend, please do let me know you're interested anyway.
I have included, below, the original call for collaboration in case you never saw it.
Here's the agenda:
1. Workshop/class planning
2. Volunteering at HealthInfo Island
3. Health librarian group
All the best,
Carolina Keats
Original announcement:
Hello, all -
Have you been hoping to find a well-defined project in Second Life? Are you interested in collaborating to create health-related workshops? I'm looking for a few good librarians (really, you don't have to be medical librarians or even 'official' librarians in order to get involved).
*First*, I'm beginning to put together a sequence of classes/workshops to be held on the new Virtual Ability Island. Topics will be: searching using Google, MedlinePlus, special focus health information, PubMed, evaluating information (health literacy, specifically, but broadly, evaluation of resources), and - whatever else. I have classes I've developed already, but now we have the ability to have inworld browsers, and I'd love to see how we can exploit that for patron education.
Virtual Ability Island, the sim for orientation and training for people with disabilities and chronic diseases, is on its way - so new the plywood's still raw. Plans for teaching there are that we'll have a class at least every other week, and it'd be just great to get some planning done as a collaboration effort, with others who share these interests. Let's use this as an opportunity to explore *what works* in a virtual community, for adult education: the focus is on interactivity, hands-on exploration. It is, from my prior experiences on Healthinfo Island, a worthy challenge for your marketing, planning, technology, evaluation, and other skills. If you're interested, please let me know!
*Second,* I am thinking it's well past time we had some kind of regular coverage on Healthinfo Island. I could use some help! If you're interested in spending an hour or more (your choice of time) telling people about the project, doing health reference, giving tours - let's talk. We have a lot going on and would - truly - love your involvement. Note: although I'd love to get some medical librarians involved, you do *not* have to be a medical librarian for this. If you run into questions - referral's the plan. I'm usually at the end of an email!
Carolina Keats
Chilbo Summer Fair
August 31, 2008
1pm SLT - Presentation: HIV 101: What is HIV and How Does it Attack the Immune System? -
Lizzette Zenovka
Location: AIDS Quilt Display Site
SLurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Madhupak/130/80/60
2008-08-16
VIRTUAL ABILITY ISLAND GRAND OPENING!
Join us on Saturday, August 16th at 1 PM SLT to celebrate the Grand Opening of Virtual Ability Island.
The island was developed with a new resident orientation center, advanced tutorials, and training facilities for individuals with disabilities or chronic health conditions. The entire island is accessibility-friendly for new and experienced residents and will provide ongoing classes for people who want to search for and evaluate health information. Funding came through an initial grant from the National Library of Medicine to theAlliance Library Systemand is sustained by the generosity of individual contributors to Virtual Ability, Inc. We are excited to present this important resource to members of the Second Life community!
Location: Virtual Ability Island
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Virtual%20Ability/128/128/23
Contact Carolina Keats or Eme Capalini, inworld, for more information.
http://tinyurl.com/ymljs5
2008-08-09
Great Strides Charity Auction - Come party and get some great deals!
When? Sat 9 Aug - 11:00 AM SL Time for 3 hours (No Cover Charge)
Come bid on a yacht (from Trudeau), a tour of the Elven lands, horses (AKK Stables and more), artwork (from Annah DeCuir, Ronnie Rhode and more), jewelry, buildings (from Oldrome Yer and others), and much more! All proceeds will benefit Great Strides, a RL charity.
Great Strides mission is to promote emotional healing and growth in partnership with horses. Learn more at: http://www.GreatStrides.org.
Location: Oldrome Yer's sim: Pantheon (85, 112,34)
Please forward to your friends and I hope to see you there!
Veri
Veri Oddfellow (SL)
Brad Lewis (RL)
Board Chair
Great Strides
www.GreatStrides.org
2008-08-05 and 2008-08-06
Second Life Calling medical librarians (or 'just' library folks)!
Place: Healthinfo Island
Dates: Tuesday, August 5 OR Wednesday August 6
Time: 3:30 p.m. Second Life (Pacific) time, for both days.
If you cannot attend, please do let me know you're interested anyway.
I have included, below, the original call for collaboration in case you never saw it.
Here's the agenda:
1. Workshop/class planning
2. Volunteering at HealthInfo Island
3. Health librarian group
All the best,
Carolina Keats
Original announcement:
Hello, all -
Have you been hoping to find a well-defined project in Second Life? Are you interested in collaborating to create health-related workshops? I'm looking for a few good librarians (really, you don't have to be medical librarians or even 'official' librarians in order to get involved).
*First*, I'm beginning to put together a sequence of classes/workshops to be held on the new Virtual Ability Island. Topics will be: searching using Google, MedlinePlus, special focus health information, PubMed, evaluating information (health literacy, specifically, but broadly, evaluation of resources), and - whatever else. I have classes I've developed already, but now we have the ability to have inworld browsers, and I'd love to see how we can exploit that for patron education.
Virtual Ability Island, the sim for orientation and training for people with disabilities and chronic diseases, is on its way - so new the plywood's still raw. Plans for teaching there are that we'll have a class at least every other week, and it'd be just great to get some planning done as a collaboration effort, with others who share these interests. Let's use this as an opportunity to explore *what works* in a virtual community, for adult education: the focus is on interactivity, hands-on exploration. It is, from my prior experiences on Healthinfo Island, a worthy challenge for your marketing, planning, technology, evaluation, and other skills. If you're interested, please let me know!
*Second,* I am thinking it's well past time we had some kind of regular coverage on Healthinfo Island. I could use some help! If you're interested in spending an hour or more (your choice of time) telling people about the project, doing health reference, giving tours - let's talk. We have a lot going on and would - truly - love your involvement. Note: although I'd love to get some medical librarians involved, you do *not* have to be a medical librarian for this. If you run into questions - referral's the plan. I'm usually at the end of an email!
Carolina Keats
2008-08-02
On Saturday evening, August 2, the ASA-SL will host its weekly meeting.
This week our speaker will be Gentle Heron. Gentle is a volunteer for Virtual Ability, Inc. VAI helps bring people with many kinds of RL disabilities-mental, emotional, and physical-into Second Life, and provides them with a support community. www.VirtualAbility.org. Ms Heron is also a co-founder of The Heron Sanctuary.
The meeting will be at the ASA-SL office at 5:00 PM SLT.
Brett Stand
President of ASA-SL
This week our speaker will be Gentle Heron. Gentle is a volunteer for Virtual Ability, Inc. VAI helps bring people with many kinds of RL disabilities-mental, emotional, and physical-into Second Life, and provides them with a support community. www.VirtualAbility.org. Ms Heron is also a co-founder of The Heron Sanctuary.
The meeting will be at the ASA-SL office at 5:00 PM SLT.
Brett Stand
President of ASA-SL
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