SecondLife

Recommendations
There are a LOT of resources here and they serve very different purposes. I suggest that you first go to the and acquaint yourself with some of the general and instructional technology related background. Then under download the appropriate client for your OS, sign up and explore Orientation and Help Island; pay special attention to the tutorials. Once you start to feel comfortable, check out the (make sure to check out the SecondLife Blogroll) and the  sections. Once you have left Orientation and Help islands, use [[#SLurls]] to go to specific locations in the SLverse quickly. And please remember, this is a wiki, so make edits and additions as you see fit.

Second Life Assignment

 * [[image:FoundationWidgetBlank.psd]] - Blank image template for use in customizing individual Second Life widgets

Second Life itself

 * Second Life
 * Latest Downloads - has more than just the OS specific downloads
 * Mac OS X download (1.110.6.0 51MB)
 * Life 1-10-6-0 Setup.exe Windows 2000/XP download (1.10.6.0 25MB)
 * Linux Client (alpha)
 * Community: Events - One of your first stops after leaving Orientation and Help Islands should be to attend appropriate Education events. (You can access the same list within SL via the "Search" button at the bottom of your SL screen. The SL version has slightly better search and sort features.)
 * Marie highly recommends the "TeaZur U" "BEG1" level classes for anybody who has problems with the tutorials on Help Island and Ivory Tower Library of Primatives' stations.
 * Marie highly recommends the "LSL Boot Camp" (5 days) for anybody with 'minimal' programming experience.

SLurls

 * SLurl Builder
 * Island/106/141/25/ OpenEd Island
 * - Ivory Tower Library of Primatives, Noyo /207/189// ITLP - Ivory Tower Library of Primatives in Noyo - This should be one of your first stops on the mainland!
 * - Academy of Second Learning in Eson/26/162/351/ ASL - Academy of Second Learning in Eson
 * Island/128/91/33/ Info Island - Home of the Second Life Library project, and Tech Soup!
 * Waterhead - Resources for real-life educators and real-life education in SL. Instructional videos, public meeting area, and a planetarium!
 * Campus - Land for educators and students currently enrolled in Campus:Second Life program. See http://secondlife.com/education
 * 20 Places to Visit - recommendations from Channel 4

Background Articles and Discussions
note: this section is all static content, all other sections have active communities with frequent updates

General

 * Wikipedia's Second Life entry
 * Wikipedia's Linden Scripting Language entry - includes the in-world compiler color-codes
 * First day in Second Life Scobleizer
 * I'm a Second Life Lawbreaker Scobleizer - "breaking the law, breaking the law"; blog entry that touches on the morality of breaking rules as well as how Second Life deals with the under 18 crowd.
 * Second Life is an OS Scobleizer
 * Do avatars dream of electric racoons? Mason, P - Interesting article from the BBC discussing various aspects of Second Life avators.
 * Glossing it over: A new world notes jargon wiki - an introductory glossary

Instructional Technology

 * Wikipedia's Educational Technology Innovation and Impact/Edutainment/Second Life (educational applications)
 * Second Life: The Educational Possibilities of a Massively Multiplayer Virtual World (MMVW) Antonacci, D. M.