Health News in Second Life: New Classes and New Guidelines September 17, 2008

First, here is a review about virtual worlds published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.

• Fall Classes in Second Life (Alliance Library System)

UIUC GSLIS and the Illinois Alliance Library System are pleased to offer a series of non-credit continuing education courses for librarians, educators, and others interested in libraries, learning, and teaching in virtual worlds such as Second Life.

• Rosania’s Second Life Lab Highlighted in Science 2.0 Presentation (SL at the University of Michigan)

• Healthcare giants: have clue, will build (Metaverse Health)

• Second Life: psychology and virtual reality (Dr. Lorenzo Magri):

Other psychologists instead propose Second life as a psychoanalytic tool, useful for understanding how the patient perceives as would be and act, what to see in the world and in others, taking control its output.

• IBM Virtual World Guidelines

These Virtual Worlds Guidelines for IBM employees have been created to build upon those foundations and to address the some of the choices that individual IBMers may face in virtual worlds. These guidelines are not intended to address every situation you may encounter through use of a digital persona or personas.