How+To

=How To Resources=

This is a comprehensive resource list of how-to information for using Second Life as well as pointers to specific nonprofit resources.

How to Join Second Life Second Life Skills Building Educational Tools Events Tracking Visitation Listing Your Office in Public Search
 * Contents**

**Second Life Skills **

 * [|Getting Started Guide] This guide is from the New Media Consortium.
 * [|Second Life Introductory Tutorials] These are series of screencast of how to get started in Second Life and will introduce you to the Orientation Island is which a very important first step in learning the basic Second Life skills.
 * [|SL Skill Sets - to help new people]
 * [|Cheat Sheets]
 * [|Tutorials]
 * Finding Stuff in World
 * [|How To Customize Your Avatar's Appearance] by Torley Linden
 * [|How To Use Gestures] by Torley Linden

**Building **

 * [|How To Create Content in Second Life] This is an excellent collection of screencast tutorials on some basic building or content creation skills.
 * [|The Ivory Tower Library of Primitives] A self-paced, learning by doing, tutorial with levels (floors in the building) for learning how to build in Second Life. Very well done tutorial.
 * [|Collection of Second Life Tutorials] by Torley Linden

Educational Tools

 * Global Kids Meeting Facilitation Tool - [|The Light Blub]
 * Open Sledware is place where you can find all the educational tools and materials available in for distribution. Go to [|http://slboutique.com] to set up a free account and more information.

**Events **

 * [|Global Kids Guide to Presenting in SL]
 * [|Best Practices] for organizing SL/Real World events
 * [|Audio Casting Set Up from NMC]
 * [|More on audio]
 * [|Diagram of Audio Setup]
 * Advice about informal facilitated sessions
 * Streaming Audio and Video

**Tracking Visitation **

 * Advice about tracking

**Listing Your Office in Public Search **

 * Listing Your Office in Public Search