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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 two "looks".

From the mothership

Second Life
The home of it all.
Second Life Wiki
Very rich resource, especially the video tutorials.

Other resources

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
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.

GridMarker and Sloog.org
Tag and bookmark places in SL.
Second Life Search
In real life.
Twitterbox
Twitter client for SL.

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