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RSS feed of blog posts from UK's Second Life island blog.

This Research Guide includes

Contact me if you have questions that are not answered here or if you are interested in working with the University of Kentucky Second Life project.

Secondlife.com
Second Life website for information, account creation and client download.
Second Life System Requirements
Requirements to run SL on your computer. (Note that the client is installed on campus in the student computing labs in King, Young and Med Center Libraries.)
Silver & Goldie Video
Seven-minute video: good general introduction to Second Life.
Second Life Tutorials on YouTube
Search link to bring up video tutorials.
Books on Second Life available in UK Libraries
This link will bring you to a current list of Second Life books in our collection. If you know of other books that we should purchase you can recommend those.

SL Educators (The SLED List)
How to subscribe to this list, the largest email list for educators in Second Life. Also includes a links to searchable web archives and to other related lists.
Academic Organizations in Second Life
New (Mar 2010) database of educational locations within Second Life, maintained by Linden Lab.
Resource Database for Second Life Educators
Database of Second Life education-related material. Includes Second Life locations, articles, videos, etc.
WorldCat Local list, Second Life Resources
Includes articles that may require user authentication. UK users log in to EZproxy using AD account information for off-campus access.

The University of Kentucky has an island in Second Life and a group of faculty, staff and students exploring educational uses of Second Life.

University of KY Island Blog
Find out about recent and upcoming events on UK's Second Life island.
University of KY Island SLURL
For access to the UK Second Life island (Second Life account and client required).
Second Life on Campus
The Second Life client is installed on machines in the Young, King and Medical Center computer labs. This link will get you to pages with hours and locations of these labs (and others).