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Jokaydia sleducation wiki secondlife resources .. Excellent page Links to tutorials guides .. a lot of pedagogical resources

Annenberg Media provides wonderful resources for teachers of almost any discipline from kindergarten though college. I use the American Passages series in my American Literature classes. Students can watch brief videos, which really bring content to life, but what is great is that Annenberg includes so much more than just videos -- discussion questions, other links to more information, glossaries of key terms, project and essay ideas. The drawback is the passive nature of the site. Students watch videos; they don't create them or edit them. The activities surrounding the videos incoporate reading, writing, and possibly discussing, but these approaches in isolation, as we have seen, do not always provide the most immersive or effective learning experience.

Top 100 Learning Game Resource list. If you are already developing learning games, these links will broaden your horizons, as they did mine. If you are contemplating beginning - it might help to look at links that interest you to get some grounding ideas.

Google Site of Second Life Resources compiled by Brenda Boyd (and others). Geared towards education and training uses of Second Life.

Shambles Guru list of OpenSim resources, articles, online "stuff" .. good list to plow through.  Education focus.

Open Source resources for OpenSim and Second Life: Animations, Attachments, Builds, Clothes, Scripts, Shapes, Skins, Terrain Files, Textures.

This is a comprehensive site with thousands of online resources to use to develop critical thinking in any discipline. The argument mapping tutorials, for example, use various articles to demonstrate the annotation, questioning, and thought process one should use to evaluate the logic of an argument. One of the first tutorials uses an article which claims the moon landing was a hoax, which is a very engaging topic. Many of the other topics are also very timely and engaging. The only drawback is that most of the activities are more traditional activities which rely mostly on reading and writing (sometimes on discussing with others) and which don't incorporate much hands-on activity. However, it is still a very rich site of resources and activities for college and high school teachers and students.

Simteach Second Life Education Wiki - another compilation of education-related Second Life resources

RezEd (BETA), an online hub providing practitioners using virtual worlds with access to the highest quality resources and research in the field to establish a strong network of those using virtual worlds for learning.

Welcome to RezEd (BETA), an online hub providing practitioners using virtual worlds with access to the highest quality resources and research in the field to establish a strong network of those using virtual worlds for learning.

Here is another community for educators using virtual worlds for learning. I just submitted an application ... we'll see whether or not they accept me! It appears to be a Ning network with many resources. I think joining these communities is important ... reducing the learning curve by listening to those who have already learned things the hard way is a skill I'm trying hard to cultivate! Dana

a K-12 teacher's work in OpenSim. Contains a detailed description of platform choices, proposal presentations and resources that show HOW she got her project approved and running.

Directory of Hypergrid destinations - including various resources (objects, freebies, etc.)

I've created this wiki to help teachers use simulation and game in the classroom. Please help me by suggesting articles, resources, and videos or sharing this with teachers at your school and/or via your blog. Thanks and hope you enjoy!

You can reportedly smashing into your friends as sub-atomic particles, take a tour of a super collider, or look at a variety of DOE informational resources.  I like how lush and verdant the island is, a reminder of how our energy consumption effects the ecosystem around us.

This is the official Second Life YouTube channel. Featured here are many vidtuts - including the series here: Viewer 2 Beginner's Tutorials. These are GREAT how-to resources! Please check them out!

Resourceful blog on 3D worlds and ADDIE posted from last summer! Several links and video tutorial included.

Hypergrid Business: List of places to obtain OAR terrains, terrain tools, objects and textures suitable for Second Life and OpenSim

Source photos for avatar creation, clothing, etc.

OpenSim OAR and IAR files from UC Irvine Universal Campus

Excellent Photoshop tutorials for skills needed for Second Life and similar virtual world graphics and mesh content creation.  Also see her site at http://robinwood.com/Catalog/Technical/PhotoshopTuts