In general terms, if you have not yet done this, doing it for a major presentation is not a good place to start. Good presentations and online interaction takes quite a bit to pull off, I've been involved with some of the biggest one location events in SL like the Creative Commons transition, and the reason it was successful was because of the preparedness. I've done 8 or 10 in world/out of world situations for major events. as for locations, there are innumerable possible locations. you could probably borrow just about anyone's medical school location or other material if you contacted them first. but you'd need to know who, what, where, when and how. In short, many people think that it is easy to do this and it is, but then again to do it very well, it is not that easy. I'd suggest contacting someone on the SL education list https://lists.secondlife.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/educators for assistance, there are many medical educators there that would be happy to help you through the motions. have On Feb 27, 2008, at 3:58 PM, Jerald Block, MD wrote:
Hi all-
I am doing a presentation on Virtual Worlds for the annual American Psychiatric Association. I am debating whether to do it using Second Life, in some fashion. Would be a nice tie-in and would illustrate many of my points.
One option might be to stream the live conference presentation into Second Life and then take questions from Real Life participants AND Avatars in VL.
Anybody have any experience doing this? Is it difficult? Where does one get the "conference room" in 2nd Life? I would welcome and advice or input.
Thanks,
Jerald Block, MD
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