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I want to keep everyone up to date with progress on our second life adventure. There does seem to be a bit of interest in this which I think is quite exciting. I was thinking about arranging our meeting for the weekend of the 23rd or 24th of February. I will be meeting with my mentor a few times before then to try to get a bit more skilled with second life before the meeting. My mentor Arwenna (Clare) has agreed to come to the meeting with me to help out if there are any problems. I expect one or two of the facilitators of the flexible learning course I have been involved with will come also. If you want to join us you will need to register with second life, it doesn't cost you anything (except time of course, which is the most precious commodity of all). We need to decide on an itinerary for the meeting. I was thinking perhaps meet in a conference area and look at those possibilities, then go to a couple of existing virtual teaching spaces for midwives, if I can find them, I have already heard of one in Coventry are there any more out there? I welcome any suggestions. Could you also please indicate if the time I have suggested will be OK? I know I will not be able to please everyone with this time but hope that a few at least can make it. If it is a real problem for you let me know and I will see what I can do. This is the link to the page where you register for second life http://secondlife.com/ I have put a couple of videos on my blog which explain what to do, how to register and what you need to do after registering. Worth checking out if you are new to this, http://mymidiblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/want-to-join-me-in-second-life.ht ml . Once you have registered and have a second life name can you please email it to me, either here or to my email [log in to unmask] I can then send you an offer of friendship in second life which means we can meet up. My second life name is Dacary Dumpling and my colleague Sarah Stewart's second life name is Petal Stransky. Perhaps we can establish a group of midwives in second life and can carry on with these meetings over time. As Soo stated there is the possibility of having online conferences in second life, there are interesting possibilities which would reduce the need to travel and perhaps might also allow better use of time in the long run. Thanks for your interest. I will continue to keep you posted. Cheers Carolyn From: A forum for discussion on midwifery and reproductive health research. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lorraine Wall-Jones Sent: Thursday, 7 February 2008 9:05 a.m. To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: virtual midwifery educatioon Hello, This is a metaverse opportunity, I have been in second life for over one year now. Met some interesting people and have a connection with another delivery suite co-ordinator from the states. I am UK ... we get virtually drunk and compare notes. Lorraine (second life ID Sufia Shepherd) ----- Original Message ---- From: Soo Downe <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Tuesday, 5 February, 2008 9:42:11 PM Subject: Re: virtual midwifery educatioon Interesting indeed - and yet this is also the Harry Potter generation...Im not sure the digital natives have quite lost the art of reading! All the best Soo >>> Sarah Stewart <[log in to unmask]> 02/05/08 9:29 pm >>> Here is a summary of the view of Mark Prensky about how young people learn today. http://massageonline.wordpress.com/2008/02/05/digital-natives/ How much of this is relevant to our midwifery students today or do you think it just applies to teenage boys? If it does have some relevance, what are we going to do about it? Is there anyone doing research on midwifery/midwifery education and social networking tools such as blogs, wikis, Second Life, virtual conferencing? Sarah Sarah Stewart http://sarah-stewart.blogspot.com Skype: sarah.m.stewart Twitter: SarahStewart