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Have you found something that tickles your nonprofit sensibilities? An object, a script, a place, a person, a group, or an event? Please share here!


 * Resource**

Great collection of tools from the ICT Library: http://ictlibrary.googlepages.com/

Glossaries to help with Second Life Lingo:[| Non-Technical] [|Technical]

[|Do-it-Yourself T-shirt Tutorial] It makes a nice looking shirt, you can put your own design on front and back, and even colorize it.

Video Tutorials for Newbies: [|Noob Be Gone - Second Life Building Tutorial by NSS] [|Noob Be Gone - Camera Control Tutorial] [|Newbie Tutorial How to change your appearance] [|How to use HUDs (Heads-Up Displays)]

[|All Second Life How-To tutorials]

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Video_Tutorials

[|How to record Second Life voice on a Mac]

Voice Chat: https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Voice_FAQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Egu-E5oFC6o

**Software/Freeware**
http://kanae.net/secondlife/
 * ROKURO(lathe)**-Incredibly simple freeware to create sculpties, for Win or OSX,


 * Bryce 5.5**: DRAPER, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DAZ 3D, Inc. announced today the immediate availability of the 3D environment and animation software Bryce(r) 5.5 for free via [|http://Download.com]

[[[|http://www.blender.org/features-gallery/features/|]**Blender]]** is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License. **model** • **shade** • **animate** • **render** • **composite** • **interactive 3d** at [|http://blender.org]

__NEWS!__
9/12 Overview of SL Art World [|PDF of Richard Minsky SLCC presentation]

9/10 **[|Global Kids] Blogging, [|slideshow], video, pictures, and more from SLCC**


 * New Tools for Educators** From: Beth Ritter-Guth/Desideria Stockton

FlipperPA Peregrine (SL) offers the educational community three amazing (and free) resources. SL Boutique (now Electric Sheep) does not charge commission (like SL Exchange).

Electric Sheep/SL Boutique created an account called Open Sledware for us to place all of our educational goodies in for distribution. You can add to the SLedware account, you can pass them to Beth Ritter-Guth inworld (with full perms) OR you can create your own SLedware account and tag your item with "opensledware" (this is nice if you want to track how many peeps take your item). Go to [|http://slboutique.com] to set up a free account

SLguide is an open access audio and video repository for QT links. Flipper is building an educational section with subsets for all disciplines, professional development, etc. The movies play on ANY inworld screen (tested it with ACHUB screens) or on the FREE VIEW TV. You can add your movie links to presentations, machinima, etc. by going to [|http://slguide.com]

SL Trivia ican be played in teams or alone. Flipper will create a section for educators to add in quiz kinds of questions for virtual study guides (that can be played alone or in groups). You can add your questions now into the existing sections or into educational groups ( [|http://sltrivia.com]).

For those of you interesting in patenting ideas, IM Beth Ritter-Guthme off list for name and contact info. for lawyer at the PFS that specializes in Second Life kinds of things (patenting among them). He can work with you on intellectual property things and all sorts of other legal stuff.

Also there's an inworld Salon that offers great lectures like the Salons of RL. The Salon concept is to provide engaging topics for discussion to the intellectual community.

__Objects__
One of my (annie) all time favorite retail places in SL is Roberto's Persian Carpets. In RL he is a collector, as well. His job working for the UN takes him all around. This store is huge, many of the pieces are museum pieces that none of us could actually afford, and he sells everyone for $25L per texture. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sibine/127.17/164.308

__Scripts__
In the NPC Office at NPC newbies can already purchase for free an “Office in a Box” and a “10000 textures in a Box”. In development is a third box called "Scripts & Scripted Tools in a Box".

[|Free SL Scripts] [|Search Free SL Scripts] [|Generate SL Script]

SL forge is another source that facilitates a lot of the same things as the HUD, but is a place not an attachment.

Widget [|that creates a gif from an rss feed] (formerly http://www.rss2gif.com/) Can be used to stream to headlines into a prim billboard.