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June 20, 2008
VOTE - Annenberg will fund 3 of 5 SL community projects
Annenberg will be funding 3 out of 5 semi-final projects in their Community Challenge in their Network Culture Project Competition.
They are asking Second Life avatars to go to a survey and vote for which they want to see funded. I am working with one, so I have my own preference, but they are all good projects. The way the voting works, you actually have to choose three. Three are health related, one is connected to the Native American community. The five are (briefly):
- Ability Commons, a collaboration between Healthinfo Island (medical librarians), and Virtual Abilities and the Health Support Coalition (organizations that provide education, support and transition guidance in Second Life for persons with disabilities, health care consumer support groups, and support group leaders. (This is the one I'm supporting.)
- Interactive Accessible Home - a virtual model of a home embedded with accessiblity examples, suggestions and tips for modifying your own home to make it more accessible.
- Mauerkrankheit/Wallsickness - an art installation exploring the concept of boundaries and divisions, such as the US-Mexico border or Berlin Wall.
- Native Lands Culture Outreach - bringing together the RL Native American community in Second Life and providing information, education and resources about their culture from the truly informed.
- Texas Obesity Research Center - To extend the offerings of this University of Houston based organization into Second Life with information, education, and resources.
There is more information about all of these at:
http://networkculture.usc.edu/projects/21-network-culture-projects/61-community-challenge-finalists-announced.html
Please vote. If you are on Twitter or other email groups, please pass along the word. Feel free to forward this message. On Twitter, this is what I've been sending:
Annenberg will fund 3 of 5 Second Life community projects.
Read here: http://tinyurl.com/5c4vam Vote here: http://tinyurl.com/4olwah
Here is what the voting looks like.
An early draft of the notecard from Ability Commons is given below.
Let us, as academics and educators in Second Life, support the development of richer educational resources and projects in Second Life by voting. Thank you!
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Something wonderful is happening and with one small action you can be part of it. Our friends in the Health Support Coalition have a chance to win 300,000 Lindens from the Annenberg School to create a SL home for a wide range of peer support groups.
"Ability Commons" is the work of Gentle Heron, Carolina Keats and many of the 41 members of the Health Support Coalition, including "MDSLA," "Crohn's and Colitis Support, " "Open Gates Peer Support," and "Agoraphobia Support Group."
We need your help, right now. Please take 20 seconds to go to this website "http://tinyurl.com/4olwah" and vote for "Ability Commons." Rank them "1) Favored" and do your part to help us create an incubator for small and emerging groups.
Your vote will allow more people with disabilities and health issues to share our pleasure and purposefulness in Second Life.
Will you do more? Please forward this note to your friends - voting is open until June 30, and your help will make all the difference.
Thank you!
Our proposal is here:
http://secondlife.wikia.com/wiki/Ability_Commons
The Annenberg/USC site is here:
http://tinyurl.com/5mawlm
Posted by pfa at June 20, 2008 07:16 AM