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"The Power of Real-World Gender Roles in Second Life Pixels and Policy recently tackled the issue of how racial bias crept across the real-virtual divide and found a home in the virtual world. Dozens of our readers responded with their own stories of virtual prejudice as well as their critiques of our research. As we researched the role of race is Second Life, more and more female residents asked us to take a look at how female avatars reflect real-world gender expectations. The topic is too important to pass up. Over the course of three weeks, Pixels and Policy conducted interviews with over 40 residents of Second Life to see just what gender in the Metaverse meant to them."

WeCanTakeYouThere is a customizable portal from where you can create stunning, professional Virtual Tours combining panoramas, pictures, video, audio, floorplans and objects in 3D. Your tours will be uploaded and placed on a map instantly. Once the tour has been created, you can easily embed it into any website in seconds. It works just like YouTube. Create and share instantly. You can also have your own version of the WeCanTakeYouThere portal and customize it to your liking. Forget about coding and hassles with servers and databases. WeCanTakeYouThere takes care of it all for you. Feel free to use for either personal or commercial use. Your portal and the content uploaded on it can be viewed from any computer and several mobile devices, making it a very powerful marketing tool.

A database of virtual world lesson plans created by USF students (including me!) A good resource if you are interested in exploring and/or using virtual worlds like Second Life in education.