2017 1stHELP: Newcomer help in virtual worlds

Newcomer help in virtual worlds 
Updated 2/28/2016

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What new people in virtual worlds usually want to know, links
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• Watch on YouTube

• NMA entry path  Low tech instructions for entering virtual worlds
• How to search this blog for what interests you
• Virtual worlds, the myth of the steep learning curve
• What are: Hypergrid? OpenSim? Virtual worlds?
• How to start in a virtual world, the video: Now see it on your browser
• UWA offers free online courses to help newcomers start in virtual worlds
• How to get into Second Life without really trying 
• Top 5 Newcomer help posts from Virtual Outworlding
• Kitely academy. Let's think Hypergrid.
• Viewer
• You, appearance, profile
• Look around
• Moving and travel
• Animations
• People
• Communication: summary
• Babies, Pregnancy
• Groups
• Places
• Newcomer help; places, resources, and free stuff
• Entertainment
• Land and houses 
• Multilingual help: Welcome ports and Google Translate
• Lindens
• Preferences
• Search
• Cautions
• Themes on this blog and how to find the relevant articles
• Ideas
• Basic Building in Virtual Worlds, by Linda Kellie

Quick Trix

• Need help on a button?  Hover the cursor over it, look for a yellow explanation.
• Need help in on a window? Click  the question mark near the upper right corner 

Web intro--What you need to know when you get to a virtual world

• The Virtual Ageless Mind Project in Second Life
• NMA low tech entry path for starting in Hypergrid. HGProject

Grid welcome

• Virtual world welcome points. Littlefield shows features to consider
• Marketing by social media communities 

Start

• Find resources on the Hypergrid. For HG Newcomers
• Starting in a virtual world with Firestorm: Manage the buttons
• Hello world! I'm Newbie Tubie, and I'm here to rescue you. From the flat world, that is. HGProjects
• Basic help for new arrivals in a virtual world at Georgia Gwinnett College
• UWA offers free online courses to help newcomers start in virtual worlds
• SL10B Help and how to
• How to get into Second Life without really trying 
• World Map. Find your place in Second Life.
• What do we do in Virtual Worlds? 
• Connect with Second Life communities
• Basic skills in a virtual world (V3.2 and Phoenix) 
• Linden Help Portal
• Appearance for beginners 
• Help in languages other than English 
• The secret of the right-click windows 
• Defense against the Dark Arts  Lag, griefing, damage, bugs
• Quick tricks for things you do often 

Viewer and keyboard

• Firestorm Newcomer help
• Viewer 3.3+ Preferences window, Summary
• Viewer 3.x help Summary 
• Viewer 3.3.Main screen, marked for beginners 
• Basic Camera Controls: See, Zoom, roam, and tag
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Third Party Viewer Directory 
• Debug menu, find settings you may want 

You and your stuff

• V3.2 Avatar button (M and F figures)--select 
• V3.2 Appearance button (tee shirt) 
• Your Stuff. Inventory
• Your things, your Lindens, your inventory
• Appearance, summary, 
• V3.2 Profile Button (framed head) 
• Managing resources in Virtual Worlds 

Look around

• UWA offers free online courses to help newcomers start in virtual worlds
• See, Zoom, roam, and tag
• Camera Tutorial, zoom and roam

Moving and travel

• Going places in the metaverse:  
  

  ClickNWalk, Dble-click TP should be default 
• TRAVEL: Maps, Teleports and SLurls, travel in Second Life
• Tourist views of virtual worlds. Summary
• Move, Teleport, Travel, Fly. Sit  
• Travel Secrets of Second Life
• How do I stop dancing (or any other animation)
• YavaScript pod tours

Animations

• How do I kiss? Animations and gestures

Communication

• Communication: summary 
• Skills you need to enjoy Second Life
• Voice
• Second Life Forums

People

• Search: find: friends, places, events in SL
• Who is near me? Use the people window 
• V3.2. Profiles. Yours and theirs 
• V3.2 People button (2 heads) 
• How do I meet people? 
• The Etiquette of Friending in Second Life

Groups

• Connect with Second Life communities
• Group chat: the etiquette
• How to use groups in Second Life, Summary
• Every community needs a group inviter. Here is one to handle multiple groups

Places

• Where am I? Where do I want to be? 
• Sex in Second Life. Get to Adult places. 
• Home points and login settings 
• V3.2 Places button (globe) 
• V3.2 Map button (folded paper)
• V3.2 Picks button (pushpin)
• Search: find: friends, places, events in SL? 
• Adjust the sunlight in your world to suit you
• Destination Guide (Second Life)
• Premium sandboxes

Helpers and free stuff

• Newcomer help; places, resources, and free stuff
• Second Life™ Newbie Resource by  Strawberry Singh

Entertainment

• Use the media in SL: Browser-On-Prim (BOP) Summary
• What you need to hear/see audio and video
• Hear/see music/video media/BOP in Second Life 
• Live Musicians & Singers. Promotes music events 
• Second Life Events Calendar

Land

• Rental properties and related services in SL
• Land and houses 
• Home: How can I get one? 
• Parcels: How to subdivide and join parcels Terraforming, Starter page
• About Land Window

Languages

Multilingual mentors at White Tigers mentors (Second Life)

• Multilingual help: Welcome ports and Google Translate

Lindens and money

• Job World, employment help. Learn the skills of finding a job.  Any Job.
• Businesses in virtual worlds, beyond creators and entertainers. Summary
• Your things, your Lindens, your inventory
• Inworld Employment
• Premium perks add value to premium accounts
• Second Life : Basic or Premium? 

Linden Help

Floating help
Need help on a button?  Hover your cursor over it for a moment, look for a yellow explanation to pop up
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Help on a window
Need help in on a window? Click on the question mark near the upper right corner (next to the - button).

• Answers
• Forums
• Knowledge Base

Preferences 

• Preferences window, Summary
• Preferences: General Preferences: Chat
• Music and video, hear and see
• Move, Teleport, Travel, Fly. Sit (Oct.) Preferences 
• Preferences: Graphics Tab. Quality Versus Lag
• Preferences: Setup window. Bandwidth, auto-downloads
• Preferences, Privacy Preferences: Notices. Suggested starter setting.

Search

• Search: find: friends, places, events in SL
• World Map. Find your place in Second Life.
• How to search this blog and the Hobo Kit

Cautions

• Phishing scams on the web -- including virtual worlds
• Defense against the Dark Arts Lag, griefing, damage, bugs
• CAUTION. You can't buy to own 
• CAUTION. Deeding land to a group
• Caution: What you need to know when you sell land
• Troubleshooting, cautions, getting help in SL. Summary 

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Art

• Art done in virtual worlds Summary
• Linden Endowment for the Arts

Suggestions

• Virtual world welcome points. Littlefield shows features to consider
• Bringing people into virtual worlds--we are doing it backwards

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Video-Machinima in virtual worlds

• New Media Arts, Inc
• SUMMARY: Resources for video production in virtual worlds
• Videos from virtual worlds Summary 
• Hobbies: Doing video/machinima in virtual worlds
• Music Videos from virtual worlds Summary 
• Art videos from the virtual world
• Comedy videos from the Virtual World

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• For more on topics like this, circle Selby Evans in Google+ 
• What do we do in Virtual Worlds? 
• Kitely: low cost virtual worlds.
• Opensim, Hypergrid: Summary
• Search on page with Google Chrome: Ctrl+f, search bar upper right.
• Google search this blog: Search bar, upper left--or:
• Put site:virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com at the end of the search terms 
• What is Second Life?
• Annotated screen shots made with Jing
• All original content on this blog is 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 the Hobo Helpers 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 in Second LIfe or Kitely
• Thinkerer Melville in Second Life, Selby Evans in Kitely
• Google+ page;  Virtual World Video
• Lauren is funny;   Avatar  Repertory Theater