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General Resources:

• To get a free avitar and get started go to http://secondlife.com.
• Second Life Video Tutorials http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Video_Tutorials#BASICS_-_for_new_Residents
• Second Life Wiki http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Main_Page
• UIUC GSLIS and the Illinois Alliance Library System are pleased to offer a series of non-credit continuing education courses for librarians, educators, and others interested in learning, and teaching in virtual worlds such as Second Life. http://www.alliancelibrarysystem.com/article.cfm?id=3

• ASTD Island - First start your Second Life viewer. Then Click This Link and click the TELEPORT NOW button. Return to the Second Life viewer and click the TELEPORT button in the dialog box that appears and voila you land at ASTD Island!

 

ASTD sponsors a “meetup” every Wednesday:

Every Wednesday from 2-3PM CT, join Anthony Allen, Director of Digital Media for ASTD, at the Welcome Center on ASTD Island for an informal meetup!

• Trade information about how Second life is being used
• Learn about Second Life resources
• Meet other Second Life users

This meetup is for "beginner" Second life users and concentrates on the essential training uses of Second Life.

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Corporate Resources:

•       NBH Virtual Worlds for Business  Portal http://www.nbhorizons.com/list.htm

•       Business Communicators of Second Life Blog http://freshtakes.typepad.com/sl_communicators/

• Gronstedt Group’s weekly “Train For Success” Second Life sessions bring together training and communication professionals globally to explore how leading corporations are transforming workplace performance with virtual worlds.

  When: Thursdays, 11-12PM CT

  To get to Train For Success – First start your Second Life viewer. Then Click This Link and click the TELEPORT NOW button. Return to the Second Life viewer and click the TELEPORT button in the dialog box that appears and voila you land at Train For Success!

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Healthcare Resources:

• Second Health Campus by Imperial College, London NHS London 248,11,26 Teleport to Local Hospital Teleport to Polyclinic Website: http://www.secondhealth.org
  

Blog: http://www.nanodave.com

• Second Health: The Future of Healthcare Communication http://secondhealth.wordpress.com/

•   Stepping into Health Conference http://www.steppingintovirtualworlds.org/

• Versatile, Immersive, Creative and Dynamic Virtual 3-D Healthcare Learning Environments: A Review of the Literature http://www.jmir.org/2008/3/e26
• Second Life: psychology and virtual reality (Dr. Lorenzo Magri)
•   Metaverse Health http://www.metaversehealth.com/2008/09/healthcare-giants-have-clue-will-build/
•  Public Health Simulations in Second Life http://www.lib.umich.edu/hsl/SecondLifePublicHealth.mov
• Health & Medicine in Second Life by Carol Perryman
• cation: Virtual Ability Island
  http://slurl.com/secondlife/Virtual%20Ability/128/128/2
•  The Stroke Awareness Exhibit can now be seen on Healthinfo Island, http://slurl.com/secondlife/Healthinfo%20Island/63/142/
• The Occupational Therapy Center blog can be found at: http://otsecondlife.wordpress.com/

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  Higher Education Resources:

• Wiki of Schools and Universities Using Second Life http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Second_Life:_Universities_and_Private_Islands

• Ohio University Second Life Wiki http://vital.cs.ohiou.edu/vitalwiki/index.php/Ohio_University_sims

• SL at the University of Michigan- Rosania's Second Life Lab Highlighted in Science 2.0 Presentation http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/slum/archives/2008/08/rosanias_second.html

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Sign Language Resources:

•  Article by BBC on See It Say It software http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6993326.stm
• Sign Smith Studio- Signing Avitars
  

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Contact Information:

Created by:
Tammy Stephens
The Stephens Group LLC
http://www.thestephensgroup.com
tstephens@thestephensgroup.com
(800) 408.4935