Tutorials on Second Life Skills
Apr 2nd, 2007 by Jeff
There are many places in Second Life to take classes on building, scripting, and other in-world skills. The best way to find these classes is to click your Search button and on the Events tab, choose to search on the Education category. In addition, here are several places with self-paced tutorials:
- College of Scripting, Music and Science: Horsa (45,213,85)
- The Design Center, Location: Idea City (70,193,40)
- The Ivory Tower Library of Prims, Location: Natoma (207, 170, 25)
- Linden Script Tutorial Exhibition, Location: Daydream SE Islands (219,43,23)
- NMC Orientation: NMC Orientation (69,107,32)
- The Particle Laboratory, Location: Teal (200, 60, 21)
- Texture Tutorials, Location: Benten (25, 115, 28)
In addition to those locations in Second Life, there are many resources on the Web you may find useful, such as these:
- Second Life Wiki, a wealth of how-to articles.
- Video Tutorials, gems by prolific Torley and others. Many also on iTunes.
- Getting Started in Second Life, from the New Media Consortium.
- Unofficial Complete Fool’s Guide to Second Life.
- Jokay’s SL Orientation, a comic book-style guide to getting through Second Life’s Orientation Island.
- Ruben Puentedura’s cheat sheet of Second Life keyboard shortcuts.
- The “Script Me!” Web site will create custom scripts for a number of common Second Life tasks.