Sheffieldhttp://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=sheffield-100619091411-phpapp01&stripped_title=sheffield-4544739View more presentations from PeggySheehy.Interesting.

When I have a bit of free time (as if - ha!), I've been wandering around second life. Honestly, I still don't get it. I've been to a couple of academic/IT related presentations, I've gone shopping (for free clothes), and I've been to a few museums/art galleries. I'm still trying to see how I could use this for learning or teaching. I see some of the potential (emergency services training, language classes/conversation, virtual meetings, museums, interactive multimedia art projects, etc.) , but I'm thinking the technology is still too new to be of greater use by the general population.Why?

Video excerpt of last week's webinar in second life. This segment deals with digital video repositories.

I just found out about this and I'm going to try to attend (if I can find my avatar....)Please join us for Carolina Conversations. Carolina conversations is a series of live interviews with members of the UNC-Chapel Hill community conducted in the virtual world, Second Life. Our guests discuss their work and interests and will also respond to questions from the Second Life audience attending in-world.Guest: Gary Marchionini, Professor in the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina.Live at 3:30 p.m.

Just passing along! Interesting -- gives virtual office a whole new meaning!Subject: Looking for Colaborators? Need content development?Hi everyone, It's Fire Centaur here from English Village.I am sending this message in a search for Collaborators!Are you looking for a venue to bring your students? Interested in teaching English or another Language publicly?

Okay, not quite... at least, not yet. ;-)

Google has entered yet another space with the launch of Lively, a tool for creating 3D social spaces on Web sites, which is now available in a public beta test.The platform lets users create and personalize their own character, so-called avatars, and their own rooms, which is nothing new: Second Life does as much. But a key feature of the Lively platform is integration with the regular Internet.

Please join Sonja Morgwain and Teofila Matova Tuesday, July 1st at 8:00 a.m. SLT at the Open Auditorium on Cybrary City 1 in Second Life for the third "So You Want Your Library or Organization in Second Life: A Practical Guide." This workshop includes a short presentation, tour of a library, and lots of time for questions and answers. Also offered is a tour of available parcels on Talis Island. Presentation is in a combination of voice and text. For more information, or if you would like to help answer questions or be involved, please IM either Teo or Sonja or use email address below.

Now this sounds coool -- if only I get my avatar out of theocean (I'm just as clumsy in SL as I am in real life, APPARENTLY) ;-)sLiterary, Second Life: Of shipwrecked twins separated in a foreign land, lovetriangles mixed with identity confusion, and girl masquerading as guy falling inlove with her noble… The SL Shakespeare Company takes a brief hiatus from Hamletto pursue a full length performance of Twelfth Night—broken down into "bite-size"chunks in a series of full-costume staged readings.

Very nice annotated list of articles relating to educational uses of second life, second life and pedagogy, as well as second life resources of a more educational nature.http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~mpepper/slbibAnother very useful resource of a more broad nature is the official second life blog; the blog covers just about everything including lots of howtos and tutorials.http://blog.secondlife.com/Also, John Lester out of Linden Labs (second life's company) maintains a resource list at del.icio.

It's certainly easier to pretend to make art or to speak the truth than to actually do either.

--NPR, Are we not gamers?

Although my computer more than meets the requirements for secondlife, it's very jerky. Graphics card, maybe?