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• Peregrine Salon: GIF 89a to Second Life TARGA Automated Conversion Tool
  Creating a Second Life animated texture is now SIMPLE!
• Teaching in Second Life: Using Social Media and Web 2.0 Tools: How to use voice in Second Life
  Tip: You can hear others speak even if you do not have a microphone and you can continue to hear and speak even if you lose connection so long as you do not close your SL software.
• Learning to Teach in Second Life "
• SL Trip Tips | Cool tips, secrets, touring, and resources for Second Life®
• Open Source Holo-Emitter for SL
  It's similar to the holodecks you see in Star Trek - you click it, a menu comes up, you select a scene and poof!  The scene appears in all its 3D glory.
• SLGuide.com - Your Video on Demand Source for Second Life (R)!
  a back-end repository to store media URLs for use in the Second Life metaverse. It is compatible with both the free SLGuide Player by FlipperPA Peregrine and the FreeView player by CrystalShard Foo.
• 10 Things You Need to Know about Second Life - Newsweek: International Editions - MSNBC.com
  From ownership to sex, here are 10 things you need to know about Second Life.
• amandalevitsky - How to Make Sculpted Prims with Blender
  This tutorial describes one way to make sculpt textures from a mesh for use as "sculpties" in Second Life using Blender 2.43.
• Alt-Zoom Classroom: How to make a movie in Second Life
  Want to make a movie?  It's easy!  Here we will provide a step by step recipe to create your first SL Machinima.  If you already know this stuff, but want to learn more about advanced topics, check out the Alt-Zoom Wiki, or come to one of our in-world
• Exporting an SL photographer's SecondLife
  Tweak your Second Life preferences a bit and make Second Life look much better
• Torley Linden teaches photography - Second Life Insider
  Torley Linden explains how to use the new snapshot tools in Second Life. Also, he provides some advice on how to make your pictures more interesting.
• A Cheatsheet for Second Life
  One item that I have designed as part of this process is a "cheatsheet" containing keyboard shortcuts for the features of Second Life most useful to beginners
• Video Tutorials - Second Life Wiki
  This isn't meant to be a complete compilation, but specifically lists tutorials I've personally viewed and have found helpful. I (Torley Linden) started this with the intention of providing an easy-access resource for SL vidtuts
• SL Tools: Getting the Most out of Groups - SimTeach
  More and more tools are becoming available for teachers in Second Life, but before we spend the time and Lindens on acquiring them, we should be thinking about optimum use of the tools we already have:
• PodCamp UnConferences / PodCampSL
  PodCamp is a FREE 2-day Unconference experience dedicated to the sharing of information around new / social media (audio and video podcasting, blogging, more).