Second Life Resources

Books

The Second Life grid : the official guide to communication, collaboration, and community engagement / Kimberly Rufer-Bach
Rufer-Bach, Kimberly

Virtual worlds, real libraries : librarians and educators in Second Life and other multi-user virtual environments / [edited by] Lori Bell and Rhonda B. Trueman

Scripting your world : the official guide to Second Life scripting / Dana Moore, Michael Thome, Karen Zita Haigh
Moore, Dana, 1947-

Introduction to textures, animation audio and sculpting in Second Life / by Jeff Heaton
Heaton, Jeff

How to make real money in second life : boost your business, market your services, and sell your products in the world's hottest virtual community / Robert Freedman
Freedman, Robert, 1960-

The making of Second Life : notes from the new world / Wagner James Au
Au, Wagner James

Blogs, Wikipedia, Second life, and Beyond : from production to produsage / Axel Bruns
Bruns, Axel, 1970-

Coming of age in second life : an anthropologist explores the virtually human / Tom Boellstorff
Boellstorff, Tom, 1969-

Scripting recipes for Second life / by Jeff Heaton
Heaton, Jeff

How to do everything with Second life / Richard Mansfield
Mansfield, Richard, 1945-

Second Life for dummies / by Sarah Robbins and Mark Bell
Robbins, Sarah

The Second Life Herald : the virtual tabloid that witnessed the dawn of the metaverse / Peter Ludlow and Mark Wallace
Ludlow, Peter, 1957-

The entrepreneur's guide to Second life : making money in the metaverse / Daniel Terdiman
Terdiman, Daniel

Second Life in-world travel guide / Sean Percival
Percival, Sean

Creating your world : the official guide to advanced content creation for Second life / by Aimee Weber, Kimberly Rufer-Bach, Richard Platel
Weber, Aimee

Designing your second life : techniques and inspiration for you to design your ideal parallel universe within the online community, Second Life / Rebecca Tapley
Tapley, Rebecca

Websites

Second Life official website
http://www.secondlife.com

Sites of interest to educators in Second Life
http://edumuve.com

Second Life for Educators blog
http://sledpicayune.blogspot.com

Second Life Education wiki
http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Second_Life_Education_Wiki

Top 20 Educational Locations in Second Life
http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Top_20_Educational_Locations_in_Second_Life

Annotated Bibliography of Second Life Educational Online Resources
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/%7Empepper/slbib

Second Life educational resources
http://sleducation.wikispaces.com/secondliferesources

7 things you should know about virtual worlds (EDUCAUSE)
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/7ThingsYouShouldKnow/39392

Tutorials

Video tutorials on the Second Life Wiki
https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Video_Tutorials

Selected introductory videos from the NMC Campus
http://sl.nmc.org/wiki/Intro_videos

Tutorials on Second Life skills
http://edumuve.com/tour/?p=4

Presentations tagged with Second Life in Slideshare
http://www.slideshare.net/tag/secondlife

Selected Articles

Antonacci, D.M. & Modaress, N. (2005). Second Life: The educational possibilities of a Massively Multiplayer Virtual World (MMVW) - EDUCAUSE Southwest Regional Conference, February 16, 2005.

Bloomfield, R. J. (2007). Worlds for study: Invitation - virtual worlds for studying real-world businesses (and law, and politics, and sociology, and...) Social Science Research Network.

Eden, B. L. (2007). 2D and 3D information visualization: the next big internet revolution - College and Research Libraries News 68(4).

Kelton, A. J. (2007). Second Life: Reaching into the virtual world for real-world learning. ECAR Research Bulletin 2007(17).

Stoerger, S. (2007). It's Not Whether You Win or Lose, but How You Play the Game: The Role of Virtual Worlds in Education (Annotated Bibliography).