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
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Second Life on Mobile
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Other Virtual Worlds & EnginesThere.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 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
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