Second Life
How to / guides
Getting started from SLEDspaces
Please IM Esme Delcon in-world if you would like a copy of a getting started guide produced by an island owner.
SLURL builder
Sandboxes - CampusLife
Media - using with a whiteboard, screen recording - graphics (Wegame, Snagit , Jing), movies, audio; streaming audio , Macs, streaming video, from webcam, Macs
Free stuff - fabfree , imsogothly
Useful communities and mailing lists
JISC mailing list
Second Life Education (incl US & others) mailing list
SLED wiki
Salamander Learning in Second Life wiki
Schome wiki
Surrey activities:
Papers & Research
SLED community convention proceedings 2006 , 2007
Peer reviewed articles and reports
Second Life Research blog
Nanoislands blog
Sheila Webber - Sheffield Uni Infolit blog from Second Life
13 Tips for Virtual World teaching
101 uses for Second Life in the college classroom
Urban Planning video (Josh Eikenberry on Tom Werner's blog)
Second Life videos - Tony Karrer's blogpost June 08
Glasgow Caledonian Second Life campus video
Ohio University Second Life campus video
Nick Yee Research at Stanford
Events
Events in Second Life calendar
SLED community convention 2008, 5th-7th Sept, Tampa FL
Contacts
Second Life on Mobile
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Other Virtual Worlds & Engines
There.com, Home (Sony), Olive (Forterra), Multiverse , ActiveWorlds
OpenSource
OpenSim, Wonderland / Darkstar (Sun), Real Xtend
Wonderland
2 videos including use of a lecture room to run lectures with remote Chinese students and a classroom in China:
Overview of Wonderland 0.4 (now a stable release) video
Wonderland blog
Wonderland projects:
University of Essex in Wonderland which can be entered and explored (use as per Java below) There is a common room with Moodle, Open Office, a lecture room etc
St Pauls Wonderland webstart links - enabled through Java (this will be a short download then you can go enter straight in, usually no password required, just enter a suitable name in the username box - this will appear next to your avatar and publicly viewable I think? ). Click run if you get a warning box. There is in-world help but to change your appearance (quite limited at the moment) select Tools and configure Avatar. To start moving, you can use arrow keys and/or mouse. To 'speed' up press shift+arrows, also pressing + will increase speed each time you press.
Useful communities and mailing lists
Web3D consortium
Virtual Worlds Consortium
Sun Immersion Special Interest group
Serious Games Institute, Coventry University
iVinnie news network
Papers
Metaverse roadmap,
MetaverseU conference wiki Feb 08, Stanford
Open source Metaverse engine , Croquet , OpenSource Virtual Worlds project, Edusim
Karl Kapp blog
Cisco blog
TerraNova blog
PacificRim blog
Virtual Worlds Overview, Trondsen E
Virtual Worlds as Tools for Learning, Cross J, Trondsen E, O'Driscoll T
Metaverse2.0 paper
3D cameras article
Overview of research from Gartner, May 2008
Events 08
VirtualWorlds2008, 3-4 April NY
Using Virtual Worlds in your Business, 12 Mar, SGI - Coventry
Serious Virtual Worlds, 11-12 Sept , SGI - Coventry
Virtual Worlds Conference and Expo 4-5 Sept LA
ReLIVE - Researching Learning in Open Environments 20/21 Nov - Open University, Milton Keynes
Contacts
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