Manage A Virtual Patient In Second Life--Workshop Instructions

Five Easy Steps To Prepare For The ‘Manage A Virtual Patient In Second Life’ Workshop

If you are attending this workshop there are a few steps you need to take before attending.

1. Signing up to Second Life
This session will involve participation in the virtual world, ‘Second Life’.  You will need to sign up for membership, which is free and create an avatar for Second Life. You can sign up by following this link: https://join.secondlife.com/  

2. Installing the Application
Once you have signed up and created an avatar you will need to download the second life application onto your computer.

Note: There are some minimum system requirements your computer/laptop will need to run second life which can be found at: http://secondlife.com/support/sysreqs.php. 

If your computer meets the minimum system requirements but you still get an error message when first running the second life application try continuing to sign into second life as it may still work.

3. Getting to St George’s University of London Island
When logging into Second Life for the first time you will be in Second life’s orientation and help island, teleport your avatar to St George’s University island. To do this follow this link and you will be prompted in-world to teleport to St George’s University.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/St%20Georges%20University/164/104/24

4. SGUL island – orientation session
On St George’s Island you will find yourself in front of St George’s Orientation maze building. The Orientation maze will take you through some of the basic functions and skills required for the virtual patient scenarios within second life.

5. Medbiquitous Registration
At the end of the orientation maze you will see a teleporter to the Medbiquitous registration for the workshop.  Use the teleporter to teleport to Medbiq islet and click on the ‘register’ button.  This will prompt you to visit  a web page where you will need to fill out your details for the workshop.  Watch the movie , for your final preparation in handling the objects which you will need to get from the yellow sphere. (Note: You will not get your group invite as shown on the movie until you arrive to the workshop on the day)

For more information or any queries please contact:

Sheetal Kavia
Email: skavia@sgul.ac.uk
Second Life avatar name: Sheetal Choche

Or

Luke Woodham
Email: lwoodham@sgul.ac.uk
Second Life avatar name: Lucas Nathansohn