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Second Life, ESL, and teacher professional development

• The Second Life homepage gives you a good overview of what SL is all about http://secondlife.com/
• Getting Started With Second Life A step by step guide to getting started in SL, from installing and registering to learning how to move around in SL http://www.nmc.org/campuswiki/index.php/Getting_Started
• Stuff about what’s going on inside SL, from the Linden team: http://blog.secondlife.com/

Some suggestions for using SL in the above context:

• SimTeach A site for eduactors interesting is using environments like SL in teaching and learning. The site includes a blog, a wiki, a discussion group, and some sample SL videos http://www.simteach.com/
• SLED Archives The archives from previous discussions held by educators in SL https://lists.secondlife.com/pipermail/educators/
• You Tube – Sample Second Life Videos A selection of videos that show you clearly what life is like in SL http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Second+Life
• Taran Rampersad’s blog entry on his meeting with Dudeney Ge in SL: http://www.knowprose.com/node/16357
• Worldbridges has webcast from Second Life: http://secondlife.com/events/event.php?id=214704&date=1147552200 and toured the International Spaceflight Museum on Spaceport Alpha Island http://worldbridges.net/SL_Spaceflight_Museum_Tour
• Perspectives from NPR’s On the Media, September 22, 2006 http://www.onthemedia.org/otm092206.html
• Mark Warner, presidential hopeful and former governor of Virginia, has staged political events (news conference, town hall meeting) in Second Life in September, 2006: http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2006/08/the_second_life.html and http://www.forwardtogetherblog.com/story/2006/9/15/18268/4612
• Intellagirl Tully’s creative writing course in Second Life – then interview some of her students (or read their blog entries) and see how they feel about the whole process. More information here: http://eng104sl.intellagirl.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=27″