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[edit] SJSU's School of Library & Information Science Second Life portal

Hosting the nation's first graduate degree course for library and information science professionals tracking the exciting new world of libraries in immersive worlds.

Welcome Future of Libraries attendees. Click for the links handout.

[edit] Start here

1. Meet the technical requirements
2. Getting an avatar
3. Downloading Second Life and logging in
4. Navigating Orientation Island
5. Navigating Help Island
6. Getting from SL port to SJSU Campus

[edit] Second Life Tutorials

• Windlight Settings: Tips for the new rendering features in the latest viewer
• Second Life Guides
• Advanced Tutorials
• Preference Settings: Tips for making Second Life run smoothly.
• Complete list of video tutorials.
• Troubleshooting / FAQs: Crash, Freeze, Graphics/Avatar appearance glitches, Lag, Hardware

problems

• Second Life Guide for getting in and basic movement controls
• Basic Communication in Second Life
• Second Life Lexicon

[edit] SLIS Campus

• Videos
• Change log
• Meeting notes
• SLIS textures
• Libraries in Second Life

[edit] Faculty Office Locations

These links point to teleport coordinates for the island. You must have Second Life installed to use these links.

• Diana Bradley's Office
• Connie Constantino's Office
• Heather Ebey's Office
• Debbie Faires's Office
• Charlotte Ford's Office
• Melodie Morgan Frances's Office
• David V. Loertcher's Office
• Lili Luo's Office
• Linda Main's Office
• Lori Lindberg's Office (incomplete coordinates)

[edit] Landmarks

• SJSU Fountain
• Tower Hall
• Island Builder's Tower
• Snowing Sculpture

[edit] Research Projects

• Anthony Bernier's Young Adult Library Prototype (68/110)
• Linda Main's Lab space
• Sloodleville

[edit] Facilities

• Career Center
• Video Theater
• Student Union
• Info Desk
• Tiki Bar
• Teleport Plaza
• Community Sandbox
• Stage
• Learning Space Rezzer

[edit] Teachers Start Here

[edit] Teaching Fast track - 6 steps for teaching in SL at SJSU

1. Meet the technical requirements
2. Get an account, download the client
3. Find the campus
4. Review virtual education and teaching methods
5. Set up your space
6. Greet your students

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[edit] Learning Management System Mashup

• Sloodle - An experiment combining Second Life with Moodle.
• jSLplus - A Mashup between Second Life and Joomla.

[edit] Simteach Wiki

Second Life Education Wiki

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1. Bibliography of scholarly articles concerned with Second Life
2. Popular articles concerned with Second Life (broader in scope)
3. Blogs and wikis concerned with librarianship in Second Life

This wiki is a non-commercial resource for educators in Second Life. The content belongs to the community that creates it.