Virtual Worlds – Will Probeck

Below are numerous resources on many different areas concerning virtual worlds. Please take time to watch a few videos and print out some of the informative PDFs.

New Articles from Virtual Beginnings

VirtualU_Overview_June29_2009
VirtualU_VS_SL

Web Sites
Virtual Worlds for Non-Believers
Virtual World News
Gronstedt Group Train for Success in Second Life
Active Worlds
web.alive @ projectchainsaw.com
Association of Virtual Worlds
Clever Zebra (website)
Virtual Heroes (website)
Journal of Virtual Worlds (website)
Virtual World News
Virtual Worlds Consortium
Nature.com
Educational Uses in Second Life (site and videos)
Making $ in Virtual Worlds
Searchme.com (search site)
 

Videos:
Murdoch University’s Library is using Second Life to conduct Library Workshops. Murdoch University Library
Children taught in Second Life
Saving Lives in a Virtual World
MSNBC story on Second Life
Ohio University Second Life Campus (video, 2:33)
Boise State University (video, 4:23)
Nortel to Develop Virtual Collaboration Tool called web.alive
Intro to Second Life
Tutorials on Second Life
What’s new in Second Life
Virtual Social Worlds and the Future of Learning
Apple Store
Torley Videos
Virtual Newsroom in Second Life 
See Who’s Looking at You in SL

 Fun Place to Visit:
The Nutrition Game at Ohio University in Second Life
Second Life: It’s Not a Game (article)
CPA Island in Second Life (article)
Tom Werner’s article on SL (PDF)
Energyville game
Rabbid Rabbits links
Rabbid Rabbits links 2

  in Second Life® on your work computerReduce crashes

Second Life: Engaging Virtual Campuses

http://scottsecondlife.blogspot.com/2009/03/virtual-worlds-best-practices-in.html

http://blogs.computerworld.com/harvards_virtual_education_experiment_in_second_life

http://campustechnology.com/articles/2009/03/04/second-life-engaging-virtual-campuses.aspx 

UC Davis – Virtual Hallucinations
Train for Success http://slurl.com/secondlife/Wolpertinger/173/87/51
Education Island http://slurl.com/secondlife/Education%20Island/127/129/25
Info Island http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island/72/133/34
Ohio State University http://slurl.com/secondlife/Ohio%20University/20/39/24
Boise State University http://slurl.com/secondlife/EdTech/96/126/0
Science School – University of Denver – http://slurl.com/secondlife/Science%20School/123/172/25
Bradley University http://slurl/secondlife/Bradley%20University/169/100/24
Dell http://slurl.com/secondlife/Dell%20Island%202/220/55/36
IBM http://slurl.com/secondlife/IBM%20BeNeLux/201/173/42
NOAA http://slurl.com/secondlife/Meteora/177/161/27

Second Life Business Articles

Resources and Articles:
Teachers, college students lead a Second Life
Educators Coop in Second Life
How Not to Teach in Second Life
List of Educational Institutions in Second Life (article) 
In Second Life, There’s No Fallout (article) 
Education and Training area in Second Life
Buying land in Second Life
Educators site in Sl
Change your appearance in Sl 
Teen site in Second Life
Virtual Worlds Workplace articles 1
Virtual Worlds Workplace articles 2
Accounting Web

A Second Look at Second Life
Mitch Wagner’s blog from information week magazine
Peter Quirk’s blog
Faddish and far out, and seemingly unrelated to you and your career: Think Again.
Tom Werner’s blog from Brandon-Hall (Tons of information)
Tom Werner’s presentation on Virtual Worlds
Tom Werner’s article on SL (PDF)
Future of Virtual Worlds (article)
The 3D web is Leaving the Station by Anders Gronstedt
Using Second Life for Workplace Learning: Analysis and Resources (PDF)