Spreading the Word: New Opportunities in Health Literacy

It has been an exciting few months for our work in health literacy.  We are thrilled with the opportunities that continue to arise; opportunities to spread the word about health literacy to our peers, professors, and the occupational therapy community at large.  As we continue to learn about health literacy, we are increasingly convinced of [...]

Spreading the Word: Taking Every Opportunity to Teach Others About Health Literacy

By: Annalisa (ALiesel) and Alyssa (alzimarie)  On January 19th, we presented our work on health literacy to our classmates in our Jefferson School of Health Professions class OT 560, “Interventions: Environmental Competence.” The focus of this interventions class is to understand the therapy process in terms of the dynamic interaction between the client, their occupations, [...]

Health Literacy Grant

This fall, we were funded by the Jefferson School of Health Professions‘ (JSHP) Research and Scholarship program to develop a program that uses Second Life as a training center for JSHP graduate students in occupational therapy. This program is designed to help students learn best practices for promoting health literacy in older adults by implementing [...]

ISTE 2011 Presentations

Our activities at ISTE, the International Society for Technology in Education, international conference Poster/learning station Proj based learning_stc_iste_2011 View more presentations from Susan Toth-Cohen (SL: Zsuzsa Tomsen) Machinimafest Entry

Graduate Assistants Reflect on Second Life Experience

Each current graduate assistant has created a page discussing their second life experiences at the OT Center. See Graduate Student page or look at the side menu bar for individual pages just completed by Angelica, Bodi, and Zunie. These are first year EMOT students who have completed almost a full year working on the OT [...]

Final Day: SIG-VE Playground

On Wednesday I was able to attend several of the final playground events. All revealed interesting aspects of using virtual worlds for education. The 3rd rock grid presentation demonstrated an alternate virtual world that looked very similar to Second Life (uses OpenSim). Naturally, I signed up for an account immediately after the presentation (or perhaps [...]

SIG-VE Playground Events

Day 2 of the ISTE 2010 Virtual Environments Playground included a great presentation by Alice Krueger (SL: Gentle Heron) on accessibility in virtual worlds. She presented different models of accessibility and made some very interesting points. One point was that many see virtual worlds as leveling the playing field for people with disabilities, when in [...]

Technology scholars “visit” adapted home

Yesterday, a group of 55 technology scholars from across the U.S.  visited the Adaptation Home as part of an introduction to educational possibilities of Second Life provided by Gentle Heron (Alice Krueger) of Virtual Ability.  The event was part of an onsite workshop at the University of Colorado, Denver and led by innovative nurse educators [...]

4 grad students present Second Life exhibits

On December 7, 4 graduate students from the occupational therapy program at Jefferson School of Health Professions presented their final Masters projects. All projects were part of the development of the Healthy Aging exhibit, covering Living with Diabetes (Greg Crawford), Psychosocial Aspects of Aging (Luz Hincapie), Healthy Caregiving (Jaime Stover), and Healthy Hearts (Maureen Coleman). [...]

Virtual World, Real Learning: Graduate Students discuss Second Life® project