Second Life

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
• Our online picture gallery shows some photos

• 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
• Second Life (SL) and Real Life (RL) share some social conventions as shown in this NPR Video.
• 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

• Simteach directory
• Stanford University Special Collections
• 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
  • Slide Share on SL
• 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 (Youtube video)
• University of California at Davis (UCD) Library
• Michigan Library Consortium (MLC)

• New Media Centers
  • Tips and Tricks for SL
  • NMC Blog for SL explorers
• Second Life Education Community Conference (SLEDCC)
• Reflections on art in Second Life
• Portrait of An Artist as an Avatar (NYTimes Article, 3/5/09)