Second Life Education/Resources
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The Education Community is Among the Most Vibrant and Active in Second Life
The education community is the fastest growing and among the most vibrant, active, and dynamic in Second Life. The email lists and groups are free to join and are places where you can listen to the conversations or join in. When you ask a question to the group, you are drawing on a deep well of experience and good will, where people generously share best practices, common mistakes, quick tips, and make connections.
Second Life Education Forum
General Learning Resources
- Second Life Knowledge Base
- Video Tutorials (SL Wiki)
- New Resident Resources in the SL Destination Guide
- Second Life Lexicon
Language Learning
Places to Learn Second Life Skills
- Ivory Tower of Prims (Direct SLurl)
- College of Scripting (Direct SLurl)
- The Particle Laboratory (Direct SLurl)
- Vehicle Laboratory (Direct SLurl)
SL Education Blogs
- Virtual Center for Archives and Records Management (VCARA), SJSU/SLIS—virtual space for those interested in archives, records, and special collections to network and collaborate
- Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable (VWER)
Videos Showcasing Educators in SL
- ISTE Eduverse Series
- Metanomics Robert Bloomfield interview with Dr. Leslie Jarmon (In Memoriam 1952-2009), Faculty Development Specialist and Senior Lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin
- Solar System
- International Spaceflight Center
- NMC Campus
- Disaster Preparedness Training in Second Life
- Second Life - Heart Murmur Sim
- Games in Education
- Bobcat Village: Texas State's Second Life Campus Tour
- Virtual Learning Machinima Videos
Learning Tools
- S.L.O.O.D.L.E - Simulation Linked Object Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment
- Blackboard Integration
Interesting Virtual Campuses (Direct SLurls)
- Educators and Non-Profits in the SL Destination Guide
- Harvard Law School's Austin Hall
- New Media Consortium Campus
- Ohio University Campus
- Bowling Green State University Virtual Campus
- Northern Illinois University, Glidden Campus
- Virtual University of Edinburgh (Vue)
- Saint Leo University Virtual Campus
- Democracy Island (NYLS)
- East Carolina University
Museums
- The Aho Museum, New Media Consortium (Direct SLurl)
- The Exploratorium
- The Splo (Direct SLurl)
- The Tech Museum of Innovation in Second Life
- Oddprofessor's Museum and Science Center (Direct SLurl)
- Museum of Natural History of Vienna (Direct SLurl)
- Abyss Observatory (Direct SLurl)
- International Spaceflight Museum (Direct SLurl)
- Genome (Biology, Genetics - Direct SLurl)
Science and Health Resources
- Science Related Places in Second Life
- Educational Resources in Second Life- Destinations of Teleport Hub System "Gateway to Thinking"
- Scilands (Science Lands) the website is not avalable
- Second Life Health Care Wiki
- UC Davis' Virtual Hallucinations
- HealthInfo Island (Direct SLurl)
- Anatomica, American Cancer Society (Direct SLurl)
- Tox Town at Virtual NLM (Direct SLurl)