Announcement: JAPA Showcase 2023 - World Tour Performance

 

 

 

J A P A

THE FOUNDATION IN PERFORMING ARTS
 

STUDENT GRADUATION SHOWCASE 2023
 

* WORLD TOUR *

 ------> SUNDAY 30TH APRIL - NOON SLT <------

 

VENUE - THE JAPA THEATRE
                                                                                         
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/VIRTUOSO/183/98/3001

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Students this year have worked really hard to present to you this Showcase of the skills they have learned with JAPA.
              

You are invited to join us as they take us on a Journey around the World through Music and Dance!
                                

 PLEASE ARRIVE EARLY  TO ENSURE  A FULL CACHE OF SHOW STUFFS TO ENABLE YOU A GREAT VIEWING EXPERIENCE!
                                                                        

PLEASE ARRIVE EARLY AS SEAT NUMBERS WILL BE CAPPED

 

DOORS OPEN AT 11AM SLT
                                                                     
SALUTE!
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TV News Shows Medical Students Using Second Life

Some days ago on ABC News on TV, there was a story about Second Life. Nova Southeastern University, has been using the virtual world as a training tool for it's medical students. The story came from a local station by Kristi Kruger, whom had reported on what the students were doing.

At the university's College of Osteopathic Medicine, students can use virtual patients to practice diagnostic skills, as well as communication with them. "The key to great health care is building a relationship, a partnership if you will, between the patient and physician, and -- the more comfortable and the better listener he is, the more relaxed, and the better that communication is -- the better the health care outcome is going to be," spoke Marti Echols, one of the university's teachers. The students can go to the virtual clinic "anytime, anywhere" to practice.

The university has also gotten a million dollar grant to use Second Life to help amputees (news story). Sandra Winker, a researcher and assistant professor at Nova's College of Health Care Services, was awarded the three year grant "in funding from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality to pursue her study. The project costs will be 100% financed with federal funds."

Amputees from all over the world will be able to join "a support group with no time or space limitations." As avatars can be made more or less into whatever appearance one wants, they will be able to choose whether or not their avatar is also missing a limb, or not. By going about Second Life, such as in the jet ski activities the news program showed, the virtual world will help them "regain their balance and mobility."

"Patients will be able to enter our virtual island and simulate what it is like to once again use their missing limbs," Winkler explained in the online article, "This has the possibility to make life better for so many amputees, and all they will need is an Internet connection."

Ms. Kruger had gotten her own avatar to help in reporting the story, calling the Second Life activities "A fun way to do some very serious learning and growing."

Nova Southeastern University has it's main campus located in Fort Lauderdale Florida. One can learn more about the school at: http://www.nova.edu/ .

Source: Local10.com , ABC News Charleston

Philosophy Class: "The Mystery of the Brain"

Summer break is over. Back to the studies. This is the 5th year of Philosophy classes in sl and I have not graduated yet, but have not been dismissed either!

Professor Herman Bergson is opening his classroom again this year starting with the 341st class. We have been through so many rewarding projects over the years: 100 Philosophers, 25+ Women Philosophers, 25 Adventures in Thinking, Modern Theories of ethics, The Ideal State, Political Philos., and presently The Mystery of the Brain. Of the present project he says, “ I have done a number of projects, but the present one, still "The Mystery of the Brain", is my most cherished one, because it is the direct follow up of the thesis I defended in 1977 at the university."

If you are interested in the study of philosophy with lectures and lively discussion every Tuesday and Thursday at 1:00pm SL time in his lecture hall at Wainscot. The classes usually last about 50-60 minutes. Come visit and listen then you can join the group is you like. You are always welcome.

Wainscot (221,179, 37)

Gemma Cleanslate

Youtube: The Kansas To Cairo Project Part #3

I found this on Second Life's Facebook page. An example of students from two societies getting together through Second Life. In the course of the Youtube, the foriegn group travels to the United States. With recent inconveniences for airplane travelers, such as the full body scanners and the body searches, such get-togethers will probably be less likely to happen in the future. So in a way, virtual worlds have become more important for communication.

Teachers Rock Second Life!

With Linden Labs recently having done away with it's discount on educational sims, the subject of teaching using Second Life as the platform has come back in discussion. Reporter Any1 Gynoid attended a meeting of teachers, talking about the subject.

Read the story in People.