Second Life Online Resources, Compliments Of Ed Lamoureux [ell@bumail.bradley.edu]

Mark Pepper’s Annotated Bibliography of Second Life Educational Online Resources

http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~mpepper/slbib

Under the grid: excellent technical posts by Tateru Nino

http://www.secondlifeinsider.com/tag/UnderTheGrid

YouTube location of Torley Linden’s instructional videos. Very helpful collection

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=Torley

the _SLED Builders_ mail list.

http://lists.simteach.com/listinfo.cgi/sledbuilders-simteach.com

Second Life: The Educational Possibilities of a Massively Multiplayer

Virtual World.

http://www.educause.edu/LibraryDetailPage/666?ID=SWR0552

MSN/Encarta Online Degrees:

 http://spotlight.encarta.msn.com/Features/encnet_Departments_eLearning_default_article_SecondLife.html?GT1=9279

Mike Pepper SL bib

http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~mpepper/slbib

Angel learning island on SL

http://campustechnology.com/articles/46809_1/

SLED Picayne (online and inworld paper)

http://sledpicayune.blogspot.com

University of Cincinnati resources for SL educators

http://homepages.uc.edu/secondlife/index.php/Site/ResourcesForEducators

SLED list archives…

http://tinyurl.com/y234ht

http://www.secondlifeinsider.com/category/how-to/

http://www.secondlifeinsider.com/2006/12/18/adjusting-to-a-new-world-moving-around/

http://www.secondlifeinsider.com/2006/12/24/adjusting-to-a-new-world-communicating-by-chat/

Basics of Linden Scripting Language.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Daydream%20SE%20Islands/206/40

Second Life: The Official Guide (Paperback)

by Michael Rymaszewski, Wagner James Au, Mark Wallace, Catherine Winters, Cory Ondrejka, Benjamin Batstone-Cunningham

http://www.amazon.com/Second-Life-Official-Michael-Rymaszewski/dp/047009608X

Virtual Reality (MOO & MUD): Second Life (QuickTime Player required)

Second Life: How to build a chair in Second Life

Second Life: How to create an interactive sign in Second Life

Second Life: How to embed an image (texture) onto an object in Second Life

Second Life: How to embed a notecard onto an object in Second Life

Second Life: How to link an object to a webpage in Second Life

Second Life: How to create links within a notecard in Second Life

Second Life: How to create a dropbox in Second Life

Second Life: How to create a teleport link in Second Life

The Unofficial Complete Fool’s Guide to Second Life

http://www.sldrama.com/index.php?page=2

http://www.citeulike.org/group/MMORPGStudies

http://youtube.com/view_play_list?p=FE3EE856673AF8BA [summary of machinima about SL]

http://www.nmc.org/sl/2006/06/12/seriously-engaging-movie/ [nmc machinima]

http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Second_Life_Education_Wiki

http://simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Second_Life_Education_FAQ

http://www.nmc.org/sl/

http://planet.worldofsl.com/

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vvvv/

http://www.simteach.com/blog/

http://rpfolio.com/cblog/

http://www.simteach.com/SLCC06/slcc2006-proceedings.pdf

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRNP6IJwY90

http://secondlife.com/newsletter/2006_10/#seven

http://www.blip.tv/file/74378/

http://cterport.ed.uiuc.edu/technologies_folder/index.html#sl

http://www.cxknowledge.com./Intro_SL.html

http://gwynethllewelyn.net/article27visual1layout1.html

http://signpostmarvmartin.wordpress.com/2006/09/17/intellagirl-tully-presentation-on-avatars-and-identity-in-sl/

http://secondlifelibrary.blogspot.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=synxFmQJ_0A

http://www2.kumc.edu/netlearning/SLEDUCAUSESW2005/SLPresentationOutline.htm

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cyberone/

http://www.lovelymachine.com/Dolmere/

http://secondlife.com/showcase/ [be sure to watch this. it is SO cool]

http://www.trinity.edu/adelwich/worlds/students.html

http://www.trinity.edu/adelwich/games/students.html

http://www.secondlifeherald.com/

http://www.stanford.edu/class/casa155/

http://www.brandeis.edu/pubs/jove/HTML/aboutJOVE.html

http://www.cybersociology.com/

http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/ethnobase/

http://secondlife.com/knowledgebase/

http://simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Second_Life_Grad_Student_Colony#Second_Meeting:_May_31.2C_2006.2C_Research_Ethics

http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Top_20_Educational_Locations_in_Second_Life

http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/

http://www.alphavilleherald.com/

http://www.infoisland.org/

A lot of the visual guides (screencasts, pdfs) are aggregated here –

http://www.nmc.org/campus/Tips_and_Tricks

Torley Linden has done an excellent video tutorial on how to use the camera controls –

http://secondlife.com/newsletter/2006_11/html/tips.html

You can also do a keyword search for ‘second life’ –

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=second+life&search=Search

Second Life videos are also starting to be aggregated here –

http://www.secondlifevideo.com/

Making things in the Virtual World: Second Life Primer –

http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/08/making_things_i.html

Voice chat just got a lot easier in Second Life.

http://www.secondtalk.com

Managing disabilities in sl:

http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=2787

New land owner questions: These issues have been discussed quite a lot on this list before.

try the archives – http://lists.secondlife.com/pipermail/educators/

which can be searched using this – http://tinyurl.com/y234ht

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Krissy June 20, 2007 at 7:55 pm

You know, I think you’re one of the only sites I come across these days that is a very valuable resource for a high-volume of uber-cool links…hah.

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