Monolith – a protein rezzer

 

This week-end, Monolith a new molecular rezzer has been presented at the 2009 Virtual World Best Practice in Education Conference.

http://www.iste-community.org/xn/detail/2280708:Event:15394

It look like a well-known black box :

But it’s a rezzer working like show on this slide :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rosefirerising/3388162070/in/set-72157615940384816/

A great work of Erich Bremer (the same name inSL ! – http://www.ebremer.com), Associate Director, Medical Informatics @ School of Medicine, State University at Stony Brook.

But this tool use TOO MANY prims ! It will be better to use it on an opensim !

The website of this tool :
http://secondlife.som.stonybrook.edu

Flux The media of the sim link to : http://www.proteopedia.org/wiki/index.php/6tna

 

SLURL :

http://slurl.com/secondlife/SBU%20Medical%20Center/58/26/27

Give me the landmark ! little molecule…

References :

http://slbiology.blogspot.com/2009/01/visit-to-monolith.html

http://piensl.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/monolith-rapid-molecular-visualization-for-second-life/

PIVOTE

PIVOTE (for PREVIEW Immersive Virtual Training Environment) is a virtual learning authoring system for virtual worlds. It was developed as part of the JISC funded PREVIEW project, where it was used to develop training material for Paramedic students at St George’s Hospital and Kingston University.

Although based on the Medbiquitous Virtual Patient standard the feeling of all involved in the project was that the system could be used for any sort of structured learning in virtual worlds. The result was that JISC have funded the creation of PIVOTE – this open source project.

The key point about PIVOTE is that all the structure and information content of an exercise is stored on the web, not in the virtual world.

This means that it is easy to create, and then edit and maintain, courseware INDEPENDENT OF VIRTUAL WORLD. And since even structure and content are separate you can have the same exercise but with different levels of student information – from loads of help and structure for beginners, to minimal information and structure for assessment purposes.

From here you can download all the code you need to use PIVOTE to run your own courses in virtual worlds. From the location in Second Life you can download a starter set of objects, and the Controller, and you can of course create (and hopefully share) your own.

SLURL

PIVOTE supports users in Second Life (and OpenSim) and on the Web, but it is possible to create controllers for other virtual worlds.

An overview of the PREVIEW project, featuring the newly rebuilt Cedars at Coventry University

All images are from Sheetalkavia’s Flickr

Sources :

• The PIVOTE blog
• The website
• Download (on Google Code)
• The press release

Preferered Family Healthcare

Preferered Family Healthcare is a comprehensive behavioral health non-profit organization established in 1979 providing substance abuse treatment/prevention and mental health services throughout Missouri and San Antonio, Texas. (Website : www.pfh.org )
PFH has been awarded $300,000US for 3 year study using OpenSim on the ReactionGrid.com Microsoft based hosting platform.
The grant will to provide “virtual treatment” to adolescents using virtual world technology in a grid dedicated to counseling remotely.

Source : http://twitter.com/Dr_Manhattan/status/983898167