Second Life may put Pharmacy students on fast track

Imagine you’re a Pharmacy student and it’s time to take your first-ever patient case history - in person, face to face. You’re in an unfamiliar building. You’re not sure what room you should be in, where the supplies are or where the patient is located. Now, in a calm and reassuring way, get that case history - and make it a good one. You’re graded on this.

This scenario plays out each year for fourth-year Pharmacy students. But thanks to work being done by ITS Teaching and Learning in Second Life, an immersive virtual environment, UNC-Chapel Hill Pharmacy students may be able to practice clinical care at a higher level on day one.
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ITS LearnIT workshops to teach Web authoring, calendar

There are still spaces available in the following LearnIT workshops. To read a workshop description or register for any of these workshops, visit http://learnit.unc.edu/workshops. For links to other campus training opportunities, please visit the LearnIT Web site.

• Web Authoring with HTML - June 9
• Web Authoring: Page Styling with CSS - June 16
• Calendar (Oracle): Getting Started - June 26

ITS to present on VoiceThread pilot

Carolyn Kotlas, ITS Teaching and Learning, will demonstrate VoiceThread, an easy-to-use collaborative tool, at the May meeting of the UNC-Chapel Hill Scholarly Communication Working Group. The meeting will take place from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, May 14, in room 214 of Davis Library.

ITS Teaching and Learning recently announced the UNC-Chapel Hill VoiceThread Pilot Project, which encourages faculty, staff and students to try the application and apply it to academic uses. All faculty, staff and students are invited to attend the meeting and/or participate in the pilot.
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The Road to ITS: Andrew Lee

Andrew Lee beat the odds. By all accounts, he should be working as a certified public accountant in South Africa. Instead, Lee serves as associate director for Information Security at UNC-Chapel Hill ITS.

Born to a South African father and a British mother, Lee was raised in the town of Ladysmith in the uThukela district of KwaZulu-Natal, which is 227 miles south of Johannesburg. Three thousand feet above sea level, Ladysmith’s grasslands and thorn bushes rest by the Klip River at the foothills of the Drakensberg mountains.
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Inside ITS covers Second Life, alerts, summer tech support

The May 2008 edition of Inside ITS for faculty and staff is now available, featuring stories about teaching in Second Life, summer tech support, ITS alerts, “green” cars and more.

Inside ITS is designed to help University employees use available campus services, read about ITS news and learn about general trends in information technology. It is sent via e-mail to most University employees. If you did not receive the e-mail and are interested in viewing the newsletter, please visit http://its.unc.edu/inside/fs/. You can sign up to receive future e-mails there.