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I definitely would push for the use of Second Life in teaching Geometry.

Textures, folds, brushes, clothing templates to make clothing for virtual worlds. Permissions do not indicate SL exclusivity.

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

"The Education Arcade explores games that promote learning through authentic and engaging play. TEA's research and development projects focus both on the learning that naturally occurs in popular commercial games, and on the design of games that more vigorously address the educational needs of players." I joined this community and hope to learn a lot!

Painting onto the Second Life avatar in Photoshop YouTube vidtut PSCS4 or 5 extended - clothing, tattoo & skin creation skills for 3D environments. Good vidtut

Business / training examples of virtual worlds (Second Life)

A SL repository for maps. This guy has collected maps for years and finally digitized them. The SL place he has created is really cool to visit and look at if you enjoy cartography and/or enjoy historical interpretations of actual places.

Edmonton prototypes possible changes to city center and gains citizen input through Second Life. Thought: How could students use a virtual world with building capabilities to suggest urban (and suburban) planning options in their own communities?

Some tiled textures .. Also, many source textures to adapt. Some free.

Nicely detailed game-quality texture collection available for private use with attribution.

Texture collections from Linda Kellie (Great source of many free items).  Great way to begin a free texture collection. Free to use/ modify in any way.

Textures for virtual worlds. Must buy set for each different grid (discounts available). 

When we visited here, we also ended up visiting the adjacent Builder's Brewery, which is a rich resource for those who enjoy building in Second Life. We thought it was fitting that such a place would be located so close to a museum dedicated to the work of a famous architect.

Illustrative textures for virtual worlds. Dreamy, shabby chic, retro, - good for atmospheric work. Nice sets.

Daniel LIvingstone's post listing  Free stuff for virtual worlds and game based learning good beginning list!

Potential legal issues dealing with "land" ownership in SL. Not sure what this means for the future, but as the article states, vitrual world are basically lawless. It compares the legality of virtual world to the 16th century. The only problem with this comparison, is that in the 1500s people were being murdered for only being suspected of wrongdoing (or in the case of Muslims and Jews, "wrongbeing"). SL does seem like an anything goes type of place... I wonder how this pending legislation will affect SL. I'm not sure a federal, state or local government has any rights over a virtual space. have to wait to see the results of this legislation.

Excellent Ning-based resource for teacher and student cross-collaboration. Its aim is to promote the use of virtual worlds as educators. Blog, video, photo, and SLURL meeting locations make this a great one-stop shop for ideas on incorporating second life into the curriculum.

Q4 2011 Average User age 10 - 15 Kzero