Blogging on the rugged digital shores of Davis Island in Second Life®

I recently found myself immersed in a never-ending blog post trying to cover both a compelling overview of Second Life® and share our experiences with the MH214 Health Informatics class:
On the rugged digital shores of Davis Island: in Second Life® with the MH214 Class


Close-up of one of the orientation activities (camera controls)in the glistening waters surrounding Virtual Ability Island. To visit the orientation location use the following SLURL to open the SLURL map. From there you can either join if you do not already have an account, or click through to teleport to the location. Doing this will automatically launch any Second Life® viewer that is installed on your computer: http://slurl.com/secondlife/virtual%20ability/128/128/23


Visit the Virtual Ability website.
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Virtual Ability Island in Second Life®: virtual world community and orientation for people with disabilities or chronic illness

Here is the last of the 3 part introduction to the orientation areas of Virtual Ability Island (VIA) in Second Life®.

Virtual Ability Orientation Tours with Gentle Heron and HVX Silverstar following along (me!):
ONE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVlPD4TPNp8
TWO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVzyi0MOsJM
THREE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cnyt6rASfo0
End of Part Three

Congratulations!

Where limitations are just stepping stones...
to a place with no limitations.

Virtual Ability Island... first stop...
Tour courtesy of Gentle Heron
Virtual Ability Inc.
http://www.virtualability.org
and the
Alliance Library System
Peoria, IL USA

Alliance Virtual Library blog: http://www.infoisland.org
funded by the
National Library of Medicine

Music
"Countercall"
by Jarrod Pedone ASCAP

Machinima by HVX Silverstar
Machinima Institute
in the
Info Archipelago
Alliance Virtual Library

Creative Commons Attribution
No Derivatives (by-nd)
September 2008

Filmed on location in the very beautiful Second Life®

Virtual Ability: Orientation TWO in Second Life® (part 2)

Join Gentle Heron for Part TWO of the tour of the orientation areas of Virtual Ability Island. Gentle will be showing some of the instructional design features in the specialized virtual world orientation area or people with disabilities or chronic illnesses.
Virtual Ability is a joint project of Alliance Library System and Virtual Ability Inc., 'Share the Health' funded by the National Library of Medicine.
Visit Healthinfo Island or the log at http://www.healthinfoisland.org
and http://www.virtualability.org
Drop by the reference patio on Info international Island in Second Life to find out more from the Alliance Library System's projects in Second Life.®
Don't miss Part ONE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVlPD4TPNp8
This one: Part TWO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVzyi0MOsJM
and the final segment, Part THREE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cnyt6rASfo0
Flickr screen captures from the video: http://www.flickr.com/photos/photolibraries/sets/72157608761236669/

Virtual Ability: Orientation ONE in Second Life® (part 1)

Join Gentle Heron for Part TWO of the tour of the orientation areas of Virtual Ability Island. Gentle will be showing some of the instructional design and assessment features in the specialized virtual world orientation area or people with disabilities or chronic illnesses.
Virtual Ability is a joint project of Alliance Library System and Virtual Ability Inc., 'Share the Health' funded by the National Library of Medicine.
Visit Healthinfo Island or the log at http://www.healthinfoisland.org
and http://www.virtualability.org
Drop by the reference patio on Info international Island in Second Life to find out more from the Alliance Library System's projects in Second Life.®

Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/photolibraries/sets/72157608761236669/

Pathfinder and Claudia: keynote at SLedCC and the converstation

Claudia Llinden is honouring the many educators and volunteers both here in Tampa and in SL currently! Yea, all of us!
Pathfinder, "This is a conference about people making real world change."
Claudia is now talking about the pilot program for educators.. working with ISTE. Eduserv was also acknowledged. Go Andy (Art Fosset in SL). Working on an experimental pathway in developing the design of it... http://www.secondlife.net
Pathfinder is telling us that his current avatar is a compilation of parts created over the the last few years.. and has his 2005 badge as evidence. He is challenging us to work and experiment outside our own expertise... take a look at HUB2.. it's an ecosystem.. people coming together .. collaboration coming from different worlds...http://hub2.org
Flickr stream, Not Possible in Real Life.. Pathfinder asks us to think about we we couldn't do in real life....
Claudia's Education Report is something that is read by those at Linden Lab... she is asking us to share even the barriers that we are experiencing with our administrations, as well as what we are doing...
Here is a question from SL. How long will we have to wait to get a registration API and link it to our LDAPs...
Claudia said it is pretty complex and it is definitely moving...
So who is 'M'... Mark. Rank these things... Pathfinder: What do they need yesterday?
Virtual Ability Island in SL has just been mentioned, specifically their recent opening of the island: http://www.virtualability.org/ also the development of a 'seeing eye dog" for people with disabilities. If you are interested in this, drop a notecard on Pathfinder... a multi-disciplinary effort, collaborate effort.

View of the Virtual Ability Grand Opening through Final Cut Pro

LogA nd Transfer Virtual Ability Eme honoring the builders, originally uploaded by HVX Silverstar.

HVX logs into Second Life to attend Virtual Ability Grand Opening. Eme Capilini in the foreground honoring the talented builders, Sabine Stonebender, Sambivalent Spork and Anhayler Lycia.

Virtual Ability Ribbon Cutting by Gentle Heron

Virtual Ability Ribbon Cutting by Gentle Heron, originally uploaded by HVX Silverstar.

Today was the opening of Virtual Ability Island in the very beautiful Second Life. I use "very beautiful" rather loosely in many of my posts... but today was beautiful, inspiring and extremely moving. The auditorium. The ribbon was cut by Gentle Heron (also of Heron Sanctuary on Eduisland 4) in honor of The Sojourner who passed away just recently. Take a moment to meet the people of the Virtual Ability community: Dusty, Kat and Namrav: http://www.virtualability.org/page9.html
The project was begun with a grant to the Alliance Library System (now Alliance Virtual Library in SL) from the National Library of Medicine. The project has been able to continue on by the generosity of individual contributors to Virtual Ability, Inc. , a non-profit W(3)c organization.

Paste the SLurl into your browser's address bar:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Virtual%20Ability/128/128/23

For further information about this wondrous project, contact Carolina Keats or Eme Capalini in SL.