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.

Great list of tools and websites

A nice wiki with information about social bookmarking

Brief article explaining the implications and impact of Social Bookmarking in education. Diigo and Delicious are examples of Social Bookmarking tools

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

A good presentation about Diigo as a research tool.

A step by step guide to social media

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

" The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) is the national voice for America's baccalaureate- and higher-degree nursing education programs. AACN's educational, research, governmental advocacy, data collection, publications, and other programs work to establish quality standards for bachelor's- and graduate-degree nursing education, assist deans and directors to implement those standards, influence the nursing profession to improve health care, and promote public support of baccalaureate and graduate education, research, and practice in nursing- the nation's largest health care profession. "

"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.

Forward this to your IT trainer - could save you some headaches

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

A teachign and learning material repository built by the Consortium for Health Professions Educators at Duke. This site "provides links to information and internal and external resources to help faculty in many areas" concerning the scholarship of teaching and technology innovations. Also, the builders hope that faculty will participate and " contribute ideas, experiences, questions, resources, and so on."

Copyright issues were one of the topics at the iNet conference this year. And, DUSON will hold a Teaching Conversation with the same speaker, Kevin Smith, in January.

Educause's '7 things you should know about' series is an excellent place to begin research on any teaching technology or method.

Focused on K-12, but this document from edutopia magazine is a great primer for "teaching with new media"

Excellent introduction to ePortfoilios by Dr. Helen Barrett of http://electronicportfolios.org/