Second Life Exploration

Questions? Email wic1@pobox.upenn.edu or stop by Vitale Digital Media Lab

Penn Libraries has a teaching and meeting space in Second Life:

Click here to teleport to our new space on the Ben Franklin Sim - you can explore the new Penn Virtual Campus
We also have our rental space through the Alliance for Library Systems
Our online picture gallery shows photos from the rental space

Just starting to explore Second Life?

Step 1: Make your avatar in a safe space with New Media Consortium
Step 2: Email your avatar name to wic1@pobox.upenn.edu to join the Penn Libraries group
Afternoon Tour by Doug Johnson (Education World article)
NASA Co-Lab on new ways to collaborate (Youtube video)
Internation Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) bi-weekly meetings in SL
ESL China Cafe
Second Nature - An ecosystem (Click here to teleport)
Sistine Chapel at Vassar College (Click here to teleport)
Most popular education sites in SL
SL keyboard shortcuts save time

Colleges and Universities in Second Life

Simteach directory
Stanford University Special Collections (news release)
Ohio University SL Campus Tour (Youtube video)
Drexel University
- Chemistry Molecule docking (Youtube video)
Harvard University
- Cyber One class
- Virtual Worlds Extension class
Princeton University
Cornell University
MIT
- Blog on SL
- Design Competition
San Jose State University
- Campus Tour (Youtube video)
- Instructions for class held in SL (Youtube video)
- What is Second Life? - Garden metaphor (Youtube video)
Hong Kong PolyTechnic University Student Orientation activity
University of California at Davis (UCD) Library
Michigan Library Consortium (MLC)

General resource links