Sending Notecards in Second Life

Creating a simple object. 

Notecards are essentially Second Life's version of text files. This post will detail how to create an object that gives out a notecard when it is touched.

Sending an Email from Second Life

In this post I'll send an email out from the Second Life world and into the real world, — my gmail inbox.

Second Life Object Creation

In this post I'll be creating a chair in Second Life.

Objects and things in Second Life are called Prims. Creating a chair was fairly straightforward.

Using Second Life as a Virtual Classroom

In my previous two posts, I wrote about virtual classrooms, and introduced Second Life.

This week's lecture was, interestingly, a combination of the two.

An Introduction to Second Life

It's distinctly challenging coming up with a good definition for what exactly Second Life is.

In its most basic form, it's 3D virtual world where individuals interact with each other using "avatars". You are free to build pretty much whatever you want with the tools you're given.

But there's a little more to it than that.