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Sunday, November 9, 2008

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®

Saturday, November 8, 2008

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/