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The purpose of this page is to share examples and best practices of what your agencies are publicly doing in Second Life. Please add what you are doing using a similar format as others.

NASA: International Space Station in Second Life

Overview: A classroom-course facilitated virtual build of the International Space Station in Second Life, complete with all current components, rendered to scale with accurate physical specifications, and the ability to lock in place when assembled correctly. This project will catalyze the volunteer community, involve them in creating something substantial, and teach them about the ISS, space sciences, and technical skills (programming and 3-dimensional building).

Website: http://colab.arc.nasa.gov/node/21

SLURLsL:

• Spaceport Alpha - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Spaceport%20Alpha/115/145/22/
• Spaceport Bravo - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Spaceport%20Bravo/12/80/23

NASA: Virtual CoLab

Overview: The virtual CoLab is a dedicated “island” in the “Second Life” online virtual world, and will later be complemented by a traditional Web-based community website.

You may visit CoLab in the virtual world Second Life at any time. Regular weekly CoLab community organizing meetings are held on "Space CoLab" island every Tuesday at 1pm Pacific Daylight Time. These online communities will complement and extend the offline physical CoLab in order to:

• Engage stakeholders in designing and building the CoLab: consistent with the values of the CoLab project
• Prototype the physical CoLab in Second Life virtual space as a test bed before investing resources in building the actual physical CoLab
• Enable technology entrepreneurs outside the San Francisco Bay Area to participate in and benefit from CoLab
• Help ARC communicate the value of CoLab to other NASA facilities and external institutions
• Create expertise within ARC in the important new online technology realm of “social software,” in order to help ARC more effectively contribute to NASA’s public exploration efforts

NASA "Real Estate" in Second Life: Space CoLab, Explorer Island

NASA Groups in Second Life: Space CoLab, Welcome to NASA

Website: http://colab.arc.nasa.gov/virtual

Website: http://nasacolab.org/

SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/NASA%20CoLab/244/110/23

04/24-25/08: Federal Consortium for Virtual Worlds

Website: http://www.ndu.edu/irmc/fedconsortium.html

Website: https://fedsl.brainkeeper.net//index.php?

02/25/08: Spice up your next meeting: Wear wings

Website: http://www.federaltimes.com/index.php?S=3387086

02/12-15/08: Next Generation Explorer Conference (NGEC-2)

Website: http://ngec.arc.nasa.gov/NGEC-2

Website: http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dc3pndpg_1g47bs8xh

02/01/08: Doing Physics in Second Life

Website: http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/print/32673

01/28/08: It's All How You Play the Game

Website: http://www.federaltimes.com/index.php?S=3333068

Website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7195718.stm

01/21/08: Metanomics: Federal Agencies in Second Life

Website: http://metanomics.net/federal-agencies

Website: http://www.slcn.tv/metanomics-federal-agencies-sl

01/16/08: NASA History through Second Life

Website: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu2hvrMjgu0

01/16/08: Development of a NASA-Based Massive Multiplayer Online Learning Game

Website: http://procurement.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eps/synopsis.cgi?acqid=128415

Website: http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/01/nasa-seeks-inpu.html

01/03/08: NASA Dreams of an Interplanetary ‘Second Life’ for Mars Crew

Website: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/01/nasa_virtual_worlds

Website: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=4080591&page=1

01/02/08: Space Talk (Teen Grid)

Website: http://www.libraryloft.org/secondlife.asp

11/08/07: NASA Plays Games

Website: http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/11/nasas_mmog.html

10/15/07: NASA Colab's Second Life Mission

Website: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr3vXuxEPB8

09/10/08: Feds Lead a Second Life

Website: http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=37966&dcn=todaysnews

06/25/07: Virtual Reality and Exploratory Participation

Website: http://www.thespacereview.com/article/896/1

Website: http://www.secondlifeinsider.com/2007/06/26/nasa-and-collaborative-environments/

06/27/07: NASA Harnesses Power of Virtual Worlds for Exploration, Outreach

Website: http://www.america.gov/st/washfile-english/2007/June/20070627163101lcnirellep0.5420343.html

05/26/07: NASA Ames’ Second Life Blends Cyberspace with Outer Space

Website: http://www.space.com/adastra/070526_isdc_second_life.html

Website: http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=935458846&channel=37137167

03/30/07: Virtual Space Gurus Build Final Frontier

Website: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17841125/

NOAA Virtual World

Overview: Soar through a hurricane on the wing of a research aircraft, rise gently through the atmosphere atop a weather balloon or search for a hidden underwater cave on a side trip from a NOAA submersible. These and other virtual adventures are attracting large numbers of "avatars," or virtual selves, to one of the first government-sponsored, Earth-science "islands" in the rapidly growing online world of Second Life. The NOAA Earth System Research Lab developed the site for users to have the experiences in the virtual world they may not have in the physical world, and learn about the cutting-edge science that NOAA conducts regularly. See press release for more information about.

SLURLs:

• Meteora: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Meteora/177/161/27/
• Okeanos: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Okeanos/64/217/30/

Website: http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/outreach/#sl

Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hackshaven/sets/72157594500016565/

SciLands Virtual Continent

Overview: The SciLands is a mini-continent and user community in the virtual world platform Second Life devoted exclusively to science and technology. There are over 20 science and technology related organizations in the SciLands, including government agencies, universities and museums. Click here for the current list of organizations. SciLands members have regular meetings in Second Life where they share ideas, help each other, and plan future projects. Members also share resources like meeting spaces on their islands. Careful planning, organization, and technical features ensure that SciLands continues to grow.

SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Scilands/128/128/30/

Website: http://www.scilands.org/

Photos: http://www.flickr.com/groups/scilands/pool/