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		<title>Recruiting for PhD: Health literacy skills of people who access health information in 3D virtual worlds and the influence on real life health behaviour</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi folks, I am currently recruiting participants for my PhD. If you or someone you know has accessed health information in a 3D virtual world I would love to interview you or them for my study. This could be access to a sim with health information in the form of a game, quiz, slide show, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://caledonianblogs.net/soh-secondlife/2012/02/09/recruiting-for-phd-health-literacy-skills-of-people-who-access-health-information-in-3d-virtual-worlds-and-the-impact-on-real-life-health-behaviour/</link>
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		<title>University of Richmond brings House of Usher to GCU</title>
		<description><![CDATA[GCU’s School of Health and Life Sciences has joined up with the University of Richmond’s Centre for Teaching, Learning, and Technology, in an exciting new collaboration which is set within GCUs land in the 3D virtual World Second Life.  Dr Joe Essid Director of the Writing Centre explains his use of virtual worlds “The Virtual [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://caledonianblogs.net/soh-secondlife/2012/02/04/university-of-richmond-brings-house-of-usher-to-gcu/</link>
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		<title>Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi All, I am reaching the end of my two year action research project. However, I will be presenting the findings at the 10th Annual International Nursing Simulation/Learning Resource Centers Conference in Orlando in June. Interestingly I just met the Lecturer last week in Second Life who is presenting after me. I will also be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://caledonianblogs.net/soh-secondlife/2011/03/23/update/</link>
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		<title>Exploring nursing students’ assessment and decision-making while in a Second Life clinical simulation laboratory &#8211; Price et al.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Below is a poster presentation from some of my fellow lecturers about research they did with 3rd year nursing students. If you have any questions about the study or the results don&#8217;t hesiate to leave us a wee reply with an email or your avatar name. Or IM me in SL &#8211; Kali Pizzaro. Click [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://caledonianblogs.net/soh-secondlife/2010/11/05/exploring-nursing-students%e2%80%99-assessment-and-decision-making-while-in-a-second-life-clinical-simulation-laboratory-price-et-al/</link>
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		<title>New Semester</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well the new semester starts soon. I will be doing more teaching in SL using Colin the virtual patient and his new heart and lung sounds which are embeded in his chest. This is controlled by the lecturer who can change the sounds &#8211; normal, aortic stenosis etc (great work Andy). I will also be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://caledonianblogs.net/soh-secondlife/2010/08/15/new-semester/</link>
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		<title>Hi Folks &#8211; Poster Higher Education Academy Conference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi All, This poster was presented at the Higher Education Academy Conference 22nd-23rd June 2010 An Evaluation of the use of Virtual Worlds for Learning and Teaching in Healthcare and its impact on practice – An action research project View more documents from healthblog. This is round one of an action reserach project I am [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://caledonianblogs.net/soh-secondlife/2010/06/24/hi-folks-poster-higher-education-academy-conference/</link>
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		<title>Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi all, The first round results of my action research project on teaching healthcare students in virtual worlds will be up within the next month. Some very positve data and a great amount of work done by the students. Also I will update you soon on my work with real people who have volunteered to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://caledonianblogs.net/soh-secondlife/2010/04/27/new-projects/</link>
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		<title>New Projects &#8211; Keep an eye out for further projects</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are building on and developing a few new projects. An action research project is ongoing and will be evaluated soon. We will share our initial results on the blog. Do please keep an eye out. Please feel free to comment on any of our work so far. Also if you are interested in any [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://caledonianblogs.net/soh-secondlife/2010/03/13/new-projects-keep-an-eye-out-for-further-projects/</link>
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		<title>a new video &#8211; Introduction to virtual world research in the School of Health</title>
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		<link>http://caledonianblogs.net/soh-secondlife/2010/02/02/new-vido/</link>
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		<title>Radiographic exposure manipulation in the virtual environment.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Accurate selection of exposure factors when x-raying patients is of vital importance to ensure repeat exposures are not required. Due to the use of ionising radiation it is not possible for students to currently practice giving people a range of exposures to see what effect manipulation of exposure factors would have. Experience is currently gained [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://caledonianblogs.net/soh-secondlife/2009/12/18/radiographic-exposure-manipulation-in-the-virtual-environment/</link>
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