Second Life (SL)
NOTE: In order to follow SLurls to their locations in Second Life, you will need to register with Second Life and establish an avatar.
- Alliance Virtual Libraries Catalog
- This web page lists the resources available in the Second Life Alliance Virtual Libraries Catalog. The SLurl for the Alliance Second Life Library is Alliance Virtual Library You will have to be registered with SL to use SLurls. If you have registered and have a SL avatar, you can click on the SLurl. It will ask you to start your SL program. Follow the instructions and it will teleport your avatar to the site within SL.
- Script Me
- use this site to aid you in creating scripts for Second Life objects. The scripts allow you to add interactive elements to builds without knowing how to code. All of the script are free and are released under a creative commons license.
- Second Life (SL)
- This is the home page for the 3D virtual world, Second Life. Access information about SL including videos highlighting aspects of SL, find links to blogs about Sl, register, and access SL support.
- SLurl Builder
- Use the program on this web page to easily make Slurls you can add to documents and web sites which will allow SL users to go directly to locations in SL.
Blogs and Wikis
- Adra Letov’s places
- SL avatar Adra Letov's sloog page tagging educational sites in SL. Learn about educational places in SL and if you have your own SL avatar, you can teleport directly from the page to the SL site.
- Pixels and Policy
- This blog offers news about what is happening in SL and other virtual worlds in the realms of U. S. Politics, Education, Media and Culture, Foreign Policy, International Politics, Research, and Law.
- Radio Riel
- This is the blog for Radio Riel, an Internet radio station with three audio streams: Radio Riel Main Stream primarily carries traditional music, and material generally written prior to 1950; Radio Riel New Toulouse features the music of New Orleans and Jazz; and Radio Riel Steampunk plays Steamwave, Goth, Electronica, Alternative, Industrial, Dark Cabaret, Mechanical Music and some Classical and Baroque. Radio Riel streams into SL and provides music for special events in SL.
- Virtual MacBeth
- Virtual Macbeth is an island in SL which is dedicated to the exploration, adaptation and performance of Shakespeare's Macbeth. The wiki provides direct access to the SL island if you are registered with SL and have an avatar. Teaching resources are also available.
SLurls
- Know How Island
- This Austin Community College SL island is a 3D virtual world tutorial used to teach students the principles of information literacy through a beach themed interactivite environment based on ACRL competencies. If you have a SL avatar, you can learn boolean searching in a swimming pool Boolean Swimming Pool, learn how to identify credible resources on a Santa Monica boardwalk Credible Sources Boardwalk, take a walk on the beach and learn how to develop a topic Develop a Topic Beach, and more.
- University of California, Los Angeles Second Life Library
- This is the site of the University of California, Los Angeles Second Life Library. The SLurl is UCLA Library.