Heart Murmur Teleport

The Heart murmur Teleport takes you, or in this case Maggy E, Jennifer M and Carl C, to the Cardiac Auscultation Simulation. The Simulation is housed in a building that contains a foyer area and 3 examining room containing 6 patient sims. The island that contains the sim also has quite a few different areas ranging from a cannabis station? to some type of temple relating to the symbol of second life. We assumed that you attend functions here after the cannabis station. And since we assume you are all shaking your head knowingly, you’re wrong; we did not partake of the evil smelly smokey stuff. We hid in the trees and watched as several avatars did a face plant. (Jennifer and Maggy wanted to though).

Back to the real objective of the trip the sims are kind of interesting if you are wearing headphone or have good speakers. If not you really can’t hear much and it is really wasted. What you do is go up to the sim and zoom in, place your cursor over one of the one of the colored areas over the sims heart and right press. The sounds appear (if sounds can appear, but sounds sounds like sounds kind of stupid. We didn’t smoke anything. Promise) to be actual recordings from patients with the conditions. The conditions include aortic stenosis, ventral septal defect and patent ductus arteriosis. These three are identified and you can auscultate the hearts from 3 or 4 different positions; apex, aorta, ventricle and so on. There are also 2 patients that you can auscultate and ID the condition, healthy of otherwise.

All in all a pretty cool place but a bit hard to use. The quarters are pretty small and can be kind of hard to maneuver in. You need to be in the right position to get a good look at the patients, who by the way have all suffered run ins with steam roller, flat would be an appropriate description. We never got confirmation as to whether or not we guessed right (like there is any question about that. Hah or is that LOL we couldn’t decide). Some of the sounds are hard to get to work in some spots. Also, when you come in you have to take the badge or nothing works and figuring that out could be a bit trying.

Since we know your all in a rush to find it the cannabis thing, it is down the hill from the auscultation building. Look for the familiar leaf shape and a crowd of avatars or would that be avastonars.

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Center for Mental Health



The Center for Mental Health is an innovative way to access mental health services and information in this new age.



The Center is run by a Dr. Kerley who offers individual cyberthereapy. What is cybertherapy you ask? Cyberthereapy is the use of technology to provide mental health services. We thought this was an intriquing idea. Many people who need mental health services can face many barriers to assistance and can not get the treatments they need in the real world. SL gives them a virtual opportunity similar to our online learning enviroment that eliminates many of those barriers. Some questions we had included the ability of a patient to really know if they are working with a liscensed practioner, (anyone can hang a virtual sign), and what legal ethical problems might cybertherapy present (HIPPA, pt. doctor confidentiality, ect)

Overall we found the Center to be a peaceful thoughtful plaace that could provide some amazing access for people who need cybertherapy. On the Field Trip was Alice Dodge, Robn Retig, Jung Na Young and Marcus Bouma

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