Africa in SL


Teleport to Africa

The West Of Ireland in SL

Teleport to the West of Ireland in SL

The West of Ireland promotes Irish and Celtic culture within Second Life, while raising funds for Project Children and providing an entertaining environment for guests. These estates are owned by the South Texas Celtic Music Association (STCMA) which is a recognised 501(c)3 nonprofit organisation with both the US government and Linden Labs.

Project Children was started in 1975 as a way to bring Catholic and Protestant children from Northern Ireland together. At the time the organization was founded, Northern Ireland was strewn with political strife and violence. Denis Mulcahy and his brother Pat, originally from County Cork and then New York, took action and founded Project Children. Each summer since its inception, Project Children has brought children that show promising futures to the United States to live with host families. These children get to know each other and see that there is little difference between them. They learn that they can live together even with their differences and not only that, but actually become friends. So far Project Children has brought over 14,000 children from Northern Ireland to the United States for summer vacations with more than 600 children per year now participating. Your donation will help cover the cost of flights for these well deserving children.

Development Education in SL

One of the outcomes of our research has been the creation of the Second Life group - "Development Education in SL"; the ideas supporting this initiative were presented in a recent paper:

"Project Murias: Making a Second Life difference to the Real Life Development Education Community in Ireland".

This paper was presented, in-world, at the recent conference SLEDcc08 in September (See the wiki and the Social Network, RezEd) and the slides for the presentation can be found on SlideShare.net. There is also a supporting wiki for the in-world group "Development Education in SL".

Development Education Groups and Places in Second Life

"ONE SL"

The SL Group - "ONE SL" is a virtual affiliation of The ONE Campaign--an effort to rally Americans and human beings from all over the globe to fight the emergency of global AIDS and extreme poverty. Visit www.one.org for more information.

"Better World"

From Development Education in SL

Better World: Displays on water habitats, Peace Tiles, Camp Dafur, and Peaceful Tomorrows; learn how we can make the world a better place

Second Life Basics - Cool Places to Visit

Second Life Basics - Cool Places to Visit Notecard is provided by the NCI/New Citizens Incorporated on Help Island at the Info Centre:



The "Cool Places to Visit" Notecard contains Embedded Notecards which include Notecards, Pictures (Textures) and Objects, you may need to save the Notecard and reopen from your Inventory to access these additional items.

This Notecard is edited by Blu Laszlo and contributions by Natalia Zelmanov (See Blog) and supplemented by Carl Metropolitan, Dylan Rickenbacker, Deyanira Yalin and Blu Laszlo.

This Notecard is structured into the following sections:

• HELP AND EDUCATION
• FREE (OR NEARLY FREE) STUFF
• BEAUTIFUL PLACES AND SOCIAL HANGOUTS
• REAL WORLD
• REAL LIFE BUSINESSES WITH A PRESENCE IN SL
• ROLE-PLAYING
• THINGS TO SEE AND DO
• CULTURE AND ART
• THEME-BASED SIMS

In total this Notecard lists over a hundred places to visit.

As an academic and personal advocate of Second Life I can list a dozen places which I recommend as must see:

For learning more about Second Life:

• NCI
• Info Island
• Academy of Second Learning: Free classes about Second Life

For Freebies

• The Free Dove
• Yadni's Junkyard

General Beauty and Interesting Places to go:

• Dublin - A replica of Dublin in SL, complete with many of the popular tourist spots

• Paris 1900: Paris with Eiffel Tower, Moulin Rouge, French cafe, shopping, and real French people
  

• West of Ireland: An Irish-themed residential sim, complete with an Irish pub, art galleries, and the best surfing (yes, surfing) this side or Ireland

• NASA - NASA CoLab Headquarters on Nasa CoLab island in the Scilands.

• NOAA: U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

• Second Louvre Museum

• Lost Garden of Apollo

Other Web Resources

Second Seeker - Unofficial Second Life Reviews
http://secondseeker.com/

Mermaid Diaries
http://www.mermaiddiaries.com/

Lane's List
http://laneslist.blogspot.com/