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Excellent quickstart guide for beginning with Second Life. This is the best place to start with Second life.

A place to begin with Second Life. Access to the software download, quickstart guides, and support options. Also, directions to reset your password.

The potential of SecondLife comes alive in this presentation. This virtual hospital is scheduled to open in 2011 by - PALOMAR WEST MEDICAL CENTER . Palomar West Medical Center is a Magnet designated facility.

This site was designed with the purpose of making the general public aware of socially relevant diseases and help them judge the potentially dangerous disease at early stages . It is a Medical Diagnosis System in SecondLife.

A very good introduction to Second life as an educational platform

Highlights the tendency to recreate the victorian, traditional classroom in Second Life and offers some quick examples of alternative experience

"Second life does provide social presence through the avatars we use, lots of opportunities for role play (let's face it, it is at a minimum a role play game), and yes it is immersive, allowing you to experience human from inside the cell walls or visit a detailed simulation of the Cistine Chapel. But the real power of Second Life as a virtual venue for your teaching and learning is the ability to translate real content into something really exciting and powerful. That of course is where the difficulty lies isn't it?"

"Perceptions and attitudes toward virtual-reality medical training: The Ann Myers Medical Centre"

A full version of the book "Learning and Teaching in the Virtual World of Second Life" By Judith Molka-Danielsen, Mats Deutschmann

Prof. Constance Johnson's video about use of Second Life in Nursing Education

A good introduction video with many examples and uses. From the description: An overview of educational uses of Second Life including educational locations, tools, and learning archetypes that are applicable to Second Life.

ISTE island is a great place for educators to begin and become involved second life.

Karl Kapp, a respected educational technologist, lists a number of resources and research on virtual worlds as a higher education teaching tool.

"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."

A good place to network and find educators using Second Life and other virtual worlds in the classroom.

A good introduction to Second Life from Diane Skiba, nursing professor and 2010 iNET conference keynote speaker.

About John Miller, a Nursing Professor at Tacoma Community College, use of nursing simulation in Second Life.

John Miller's Blog about nurse education and second life