An Open Letter to the Learners of This Planet A postscript to "The World Is Open: How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing Education"

An Open Letter to the Learners of This Planet                                                                                                                            

This document is a postscript to:
Bonk, C. J. (July 2009). The World Is Open: How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing
Education. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. (A Wiley imprint).
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Today's Karuna Resource Center Work in Second Life-July 20, 2009

These snapshots were taken today while I was working in the Karuna Resource Center in Second Life (SL). Both the RSS feed reader and the sign I created on how to connect to live chat from the NIH AIDSinfo Live Help website http://aidsinfo.nih.gov/LiveHelp/Default.aspx function in the same way.
I'm hoping these snapshots demonstrate to those unfamiliar with Second Life how this type of information linking works from within SL.

Questions/comments/suggestions are welcome. Feel free to comment here or inside SL via our suggestion/comment box (posterous is also pushing this to flickr and twitter where one could also comment :) ).

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Karuna Resource Center in Second Life - July 20, 2009

Karuna Resource Center in Second Life - July 20, 2009
This is my newest resource I'm pretty excited about this as it will raise awareness of the fact that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services offers 20 hrs. of free live chat help for people seeking information on HIV/AIDS. If someone comes upon this sign in the Karuna Resource Center when I am not online to help, they may click the sign and and the website below will open inside SL. They will need to click to open in their external web browser to chat. At that point, however, a small dialog chat box opens and they can chat in that window while in SL. http://aidsinfo.nih.gov/LiveHelp/Default.aspx

More new work in the Karuna Resource Center in Second Life #Karuna

More new work in the Karuna Resource Center in Second Life #Karuna
This time I am testing whether or not I can send my snapshots to posterous directly from Second Life using the built in Second Life "Email Snapshot" feature. If this works it will be amazing.

World Community Grid Karuna Resource Center FightAIDS@Home Display Sign

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This sign points visitors to the upstairs display room (snapshots posted in prior post-click "back to blog" link above). When touched in Second Life, the sign provides visitors an option to visit a World Community Grid (WCG) page where anyone can choose to join the new Friends of Karuna Team. The upstairs displays also give out additional information links on the FightAIDS@Home research project.

What is FightAIDS@Home?"

FightAIDS@Home is the first biomedical distributed computing project ever launched. It is run by the Olson Laboratory at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California. We provide free software that you download and install. The software uses your computer's idle cycles to assist fundamental research in discovering new drugs, building on our growing knowledge of the structural biology of AIDS. In addition, this research helps us study the mechanisms of multi-drug-resistance that the "super bugs" of HIV use to escape the current anti-AIDS drugs. And this research helps us create, test, refine, and share the tools and protocols that thousands of other labs use in their research against other diseases.

source: http://fightaidsathome.scripps.edu/