2014 1stHELP: NCI Newcomer help

NCI Newcomer help
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NCI /New Citizens Incorporated is a portal to the Second Life® virtual world.
NCI is currently managed by Wellington Beam.

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NCI Kuula

• You can enter Second Life here.  Click on the location link.
• Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen:
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Kuula/58/167/28

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NCI RESOURCES

• Helpers
• NCI Classes 
• Tutorials
• InfoNodes
• NCI Blog
• NCI Website
• SL Info Networked Help Card Vendors 
• Freebie Vendors
• Sandboxes 
• "Live Help" via New Citizens Inc. Group Channel
• Newsstands
• Home Spots (places where new residents can set as Home)

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NCI classes (all free) include basic and advanced building and texturing, clothing and accessory creation, scripting, land ownership, and other basic SL topics.

Class Schedules 

over 60 classes a week

NCI Classes  
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The Kuula site is sometimes crowded and laggy.  At such times you may prefer these sites:
(You can enter Second Life at these places.  Click on a location link.)

• NCI South
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Hamnida/229/95/113
• NCI beach
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Fishermans%20Cove/61/195/25
• NCI Dreamseeker
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/NCI%20Dream%20Seeker/46/199/24

Free stuff

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What you can do with prims

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Prims for beginners

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A builder at work

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Balloon rides show you around 

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Mount Lagmore?

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Mating Season?

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Info at your cursor tip

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NCI South

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Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Hamnida/229/95/113
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NCI beach

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Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Fishermans%20Cove/61/195/25
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NCI Dreamseeker

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Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/NCI%20Dream%20Seeker/46/199/24
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NCI Dreamseeker

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Newcomer Help in Virtual Worlds

• Basic help for new arrivals in a virtual world at Georgia Gwinnett College
• How to start in a virtual world, the video: Now see it on your browser
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/GGC%20Island/66/81/28
• UWA offers free online courses to help newcomers start in virtual worlds
• Firestorm Documentation and User Guide (Wiki)
• Beginner's building on the Hypergrid. Primland, the building tutorial game
• New Citizens Inc
• Table of Contents (Virtual Outworlding)
• Multilingual help: Welcome ports and Google Translate  

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• What do we do in Virtual Worlds? 
• Search on page with Google Chrome: Ctrl+f, search bar upper right 
• Google search this blog, column on right
• or put site:virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com at the end of the search terms
• What is Second Life?
• Annotated screen shots made with Jing
• Creative Commons License, attribution only.
• Second Life, Linden, SLurl, and SL are trademarks of Linden Research Inc.
• This blog is not affiliated with Second Life or anything else.  
• Ads are  from Google

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• Drop by my place in Second life
• Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen:
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cookie/136/100/22
• Feel free to send me an IM, notecard, or friend request.
• Thinkerer Melville/Selby Evans