2014 1stHELP: How to get into Second Life without really trying

How to get into Second Life without really trying 
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The help button is always there

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If you want to:

• attend an event (entertainment, education, public affairs)
• meet friends or family
• see an art display, museum, or other place of interest
• follow a hobby of yours
• perform music or other performance art
• learn to build, script, make videos, or create other content

You can start here:
Entry points:

• UWA offers free online courses to help newcomers start in virtual worlds
• White Tiger Help & Learning Island. New Resident Services
• NCI Newcomer help 
• Caledon Oxbridge University 
• Helping Haven
• Multilingual help at Elba10, by Zussa Ryba
• Multilingual help: Welcome ports and Google Translate
• What is Second Life?

Basic skills

• Basic skills in a virtual world (V3.2 and Phoenix) 
• Viewer 3.3.Main screen, marked for beginners 
• Communication: summary 
• Quick tricks for things you do often V3.2 
• Landmarks, teleporting, and SLurls

Attend an event (entertainment, education, public affairs)

• Search: find: friends, places, events in SL? 
• What you need to hear/see audio and video

Meet friends or family

• Search: find: friends, places, events in SL? 
• Who is near me? Use the people window 
• How do I meet people? 

See an art display, museum, or other place of interest

• Search: find: friends, places, events in SL? 
• Art done in Second Life Summary  

Follow a hobby of yours

• Hobbies in Second Life Summary 
• Content Creation: Build, script, video, classes, tools, collaborate

Beginner resources
Linden Help Portal

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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. 
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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