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:
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
http://homepages.uc.edu/secondlife/index.php/Site/ResourcesForEducators
SLED list archives…
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
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://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vvvv/
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://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://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Top_20_Educational_Locations_in_Second_Life
http://www.alphavilleherald.com/
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.
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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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.