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Second Life
So, you get to re-invent yourself, as many times as you want. What's not to like? So far I've only had one basic avatar, but four "looks".
From the mothership
- Second Life
- The home of it all.
- Second Life Wiki
- Very rich resource, especially the video tutorials.
Other resources
- Association of Virtual Worlds
- A Ning network, including the Libraries in Virtual Worlds group
- CTER (at UIUC) Portal, Second Life Tutorials
- A collection of how-tos.
- Educators in SL
- Listserv list
- Google Sketchup
- Callaborative 3D modelling, at various price points from educators to businesses.
- Hub2 Wiki
- Supporting the SL projects at Emerson College. Good tutorials and other resources, especially on scripting.
- Infoisland.org
- These are the librarians who have taken libraries into SL, and here is their directory.
- ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education): Second Life
- Learning From Online Worlds: Teaching In Second Life
- A research project at the London Knowledge Lab, Institute of Education, University of London.
- NMC Campus
- New Media Consortium's presence in SL. NMC is also engaged in a new project, NMC Virtual Worlds, which includes Open Virtual Worlds, in collaboration with Sun Microsystems, which partially sponsors Project Wonderland (open source virtual world) and Project Darkstar (open source gaming platform) .
- Second Life Education Wiki
- SLIS Second Life Wiki
- Excellent wiki created by the LIS school at San Jose State University.
- Sloodle
- Moodle for SL.
Extensions, et al.
- Sloog.org
- Tag and bookmark places in SL.
- Second Life Search
- In real life.
- SLTweets and Twitterbox
- Twitter clients for SL.
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