Grace Lim's Lunch-Time Sharing Sessions: Welcome to lunch-time sharing session on 5 Dec 07!

Work, Learn & Play in Second Life

Introduction to Second Life
Second Life (SL) is an interactive, immersive 3-D virtual world provides new ways to create, communicate, interact, socialize, network, collaborate and new ways to teach and learn.

System requirements
- Make sure your computer can run Second Life in the first place.
- You need a broadband networked connection.
- Find out the system requirements @ http://secondlife.com/corporate/sysreqs.php
- Take note of the types of graphics display cards supported.
- Upgrade the driver for your graphics display card if required.

Create a free, basic SL account
- Sign up for a free basic account @ https://secure-web11.secondlife.com/join/
- You are asked to select and join a community or skip the step of joining one .
- Select your last name from the drop-down menu.
- Type your first name.
- Check the availability of your name.
- Fill in your birthdate.
- Enter your active email address.
- Select your avatar, a female or a male of the style you prefer. You can change the look later on.

WORK
- Entrepreneurs (e.g. real-estate, financial brokers), skilled (e.g. builder, texturer, scripter, fashion designer, teachers) and unskilled workers (e.g. dancer, model).
- Looking for jobs while in-world – look under the Classifieds in Search.
- Looking for jobs while outside SL:
- SLJofinder.com -- https://www.sljobfinder.com/employer/index.php

LEARN
-Use Search – Events – Education.
- Harvard is among some 80 academic institutions exploring Second Life.
- Second Life has recently emerged as one of the cutting-edge virtual classrooms for major colleges and universities, including the Open University.

PLAY
- Visit shopping malls, nightclubs, sports arenas, casinos.
- Adventure in castles, dungeons, and cities in the sky.
- Party endlessly at nightclubs, fashion shows, art openings, fancy dress balls.
- Fall in love, get married at a virtual service—and officially designate your Second Life partner.
- Jump into multiplayer and solo play in dozens of in-world games made by gamers, for gamers.
- Join clubs / interest groups.
- Read SL newspapers & magazines
- Metaversemessenger (M2): A Real Newspaper for A Virtual World -- http://metaversemessenger.com/index.html

Sight-seeing
- Bollywood http://slurl.com/secondlife/Bollywood/163/51/26
- Hollywood http://slurl.com/secondlife/hollywood/141/71/24
- The Second Life Louvre Museum http://slurl.com/secondlife/Tompson/153/97/100]
- New Paris http://slurl.com/secondlife/new%20paris/121/113/24/
- Virtual Morocco http://slurl.com/secondlife/Casablanca/134/86/26
- Frankfurt City http://slurl.com/secondlife/Frankfurt%20City/20/126/31
- Ancient Rome http://slurl.com/secondlife/Perfect%20Island/224/157/24
- Little Kyoto, Nagaya (English-speaking) http://slurl.com/secondlife/Juho/128/128/0
- International Spaceflight Museum http://slurl.com/secondlife/Spaceport%20Alpha/48/78/24

Leisures / Entertainment
- The Edge Club (dancing with live DJ) http://slurl.com/secondlife/Edge/129/129/31
- Midnight City http://slurl.com/secondlife/Midnight%20City/128/128/0
- The Second Life Ballet (a non-profit organization) http://slurl.com/secondlife/Quat/61/29/110
- Prim Hearts Amusement Park http://slurl.com/secondlife/Prim%20Hearts/11/29/28
- Waterpark & amusement at Siggy's WaterWorks http://slurl.com/secondlife/waterworks/180/26/25/
- SL Triathlon Training (swimming, biking, and running) http://slurl.com/secondlife/Kona%20Island/30/44/22
- Bowling at ImagineNation http://slurl.com/secondlife/imaginenation/209/199/23/
- Horse-riding at AKK Horse Ranch http://slurl.com/secondlife/aeos/31/51/25/
- Skydiving at Abbotts Aerodrome http://slurl.com/secondlife/Abbotts/160/152/71
- The Great Second Life Railway http://slurl.com/secondlife/Slate/134/214/42

Business
- LindeX - the official Second Life Linden Dollar exchange http://secondlife.com/currency/ (members login).

Organisations in SL

- Millions of Us - a company dedicated to helping businesses understand and harness the power of virtual worlds. It is a virtual worlds branding and advertising agency. Millions of Us builds real world brands and experiences in the virtual world of Second Life. http://www.millionsofus.com/index.php

- The Electric Sheep Company http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sheep%20island/82/126/26

- This Second Marketing LLC http://slurl.com/secondlife/This%20Second/117/112/26

- TV Station… Television Broadcasting in Second Life http://slurl.com/secondlife/TVstation/172/84/22