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

List of Second Life tips and tools - updated URLs in English and French

Second Life scripting tool by Hilary Mason (SL: Ann Enigma). Selecting parameters creates script to be pasted into object.

Ning groups and forums for SL - some examples of how to implement in the classroom.

The volunteer librarians of Info Island provide actual reference service for people's questions both inside and beyond Second Life. "Ask the Librarian" is a virtual reference service where you can chat with a librarian to get assistance. The multi-lingual service is international in scope. There is a very useful library of free Second Life scripts and educational tools. This is a great resource for educators.

we're here because we can tell stories, we can be inside art, we can give context to conversation and learning and collaborating in ways that are, simply, impossible in nearly every other medium, including reality. Dusan Writer blogs of interactive, collaborative narrative (storytelling) as the compelling reason for virtual worlds such as second life.

This article discusses how Teen Second Life and similar dynamic online tools gives teenagers another way to explore their identity, in a low-risk, no consequences environment, and how teachers can use this environment to explore serious issues.

This SLOODLE (Simulation Linked Object Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment) blog comments on and gives examples of using the plug-in SLOODLE to interface and integrate SL with Moodle. This is an open source project. The blog provides excellent tutorials explaining how this application works, and as you watch them, you start to imagine all the different ways you might apply these tools to the classroom. This site contains many ideas and examples for the classroom use of a VR as well as other web-based tools. One example of this is the dropbox for leaving notecard assignments. Once dropped, the notecard appears in the teacher's Moodle account. Once graded, the student immediately receives an email. Another paper describes using SL to teach engineering and then using the SLOODLE to track students' in-world laboratory participation and link it to the teacher's moodle. So we are seeing the virtual world integrating with the real world. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sloodle/126/94/23

RezzMania is a blog dedicated to the builders of Second Life who create amazing virtual structures, clothes, skins, tools, and organizing events and contests. A particular blog post that caught my eye was Vito, the Dogfather: http://rezzmania.com/2009/12/vito-the-dogfather.html Like myself, Vito was a martial artist and dog trainer but unfortunately, he was a victim in a horrific traffic accident and spent 5½ weeks in a coma and ended up with TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury). One of his forms of rehabilitation was creating a group for victims of TBI in Second Life. Vito now runs a dojo and trains dogs in SL. His SL group is staffed with a real life physician and a rehab therapist acting as consultants for the rest of the group.

Another free DNS option

Setting DNS to use Google's DNS. - Workaround some Second Life connectivity problems (especially those regarding various voice issues)

OSgrid repository of archive of OAR and IAR files for public use.  Must be allowed by creator.

How to create megaregion RAW files for Second Life and Opensim using Terragen

Free Terrain files (OAR files) in OpenSimulator wiki

Collection of scripts compatible in both Second Life and OpenSim

Source photos for avatar creation, clothing, etc.

OpenSim OAR and IAR files from UC Irvine Universal Campus

How to change Kitely default virtual world browser. (Directions for both PC and Mac)