Second Life

"Warcraft: Culture, Gender and Identity," a credit-awarding class being offered at Inver Hills Community College in Minnesota. At the helm of this innovative course is Landon Pirius, Ph.D., also known as Nodnal the Gnome Warrior of Blackwater Raiders-US. No stranger to the convergence of WoW and academia, Dr. Pirius wrote his doctoral dissertation on "Massively Multiplayer Online Virtual Environments: A Potential Locale for Intercultural Training." We didn't go quite that deep in this interview; we simply visited with him about his wildly successful college course and how it's helping shape modern educational methodologies.

Sloog is a bookmarking service for Second Life residents. It allows users to save favourite places and avatars and search for them later, both in-world with a simple plug-in (HUD) or via web browser at www.sloog.org

This makes your scripting in Sl easier.

Dans les mondes virtuels, l'oeil est le guide de l'avatar Cogain rend possible le déplacement d'un personnage virtuel par les seuls mouvements des yeux. Le système s'adresse aux personnes à motricité réduite, à des fins ludiques et de formation en ligne.

I might be missing the point - but IMHO this is a 3D singles club/Contiki tour/dating service with porn options.

An interview about the x3D standard, a standard that allows 3D rendering of content across platforms. For those that know, is the successor to VRML.

,Virtual Macbeth was designed to demonstrate how we might best use the affordances of virtual environments for Education. Shakespeare’s Macbeth reimagined in Second Life provides an adaptive bridge between classic texts and new media technology.

blog post from U of OK regarding Alessi, Trollip and Shaffer's research and theories into fidelity of simulation, learning and relationship between them and whether learning is readily transferrable from games or VWs toreal life.