1. NCI Kuula – New Citizens Incorporated - New Player, New Resident, Newbie, Noob, Beginner, Help, Basics, Information, Info, Questions, Freebies, Free Stuff, Clothing, Sandbox, Hangout, Newsstand, Ginny Gremlin Park, Mall, Events, Tutorials, Classes, Class, Education.
2. the Shelter, Isabel - A Haven for those new and old! While here we ask you follow our rules of no nudity, heavy swearing, or advertising.  Please type ‘rules’ for a notecard on arrival with more specific information.
3. Caledon Oxbridge University Community Gateway - Help. Lessons. Tutorials. Assistance. Helpers. New. Support.  People Helping People. Free Clothes. Building Area. Mentors. Guide. Guides. New Residents. Learning. Learn. Fun. Activities. The Independent State of Caledon Community Gateway.
4. Ivory Tower Library of Primitives - A Self-Guided, Self-Paced, Comprehensive Building Tutorial. Library Contacts: Lumiere Noir & Avi Arrow Ask for Help: Avi Arrow, marcov Carter, Mouse Mimistrobell, Lumiere Noir, or Lost Prim.
5. Helping Haven - A friendly place to come and receive help for your Second Life. We offer a team of voluntary helpers to assist you. Newcomer friendly, freebies, landmarks.
6. College of Scripting - Scripting Tutorials to program in Linden Language. Feel free to come learn how to Script from over 900 Lessons on 10 floors. Newbie Orientation and learn to Build from our Building Tutorials. Basics of Music,Physics, Logic, Particles, Boolean Algrebra.
7. Builder’s Brewery - Sandbox & Terraforming Practice.  Learn to build free classes. Supplies for Textures, Scripts, Sculpts, glass, tutorials, lighting and more inside if you need them. Items returned AFTER you leave.
8. White Tiger Help Island - A commerce help & learning international community. Free shopping at the Medieval Village. Fantasy Learning Garden. Help. Helping. Gifts. Tutorials. Lessons. Classes. Art. Dancing.  Land managers Eoleon Elcano, Treacle Darlandes, Zanyrob Merryman.
9. Virtual Ability - Home of the Virtual Ability, Inc. orientation, training and information facilities for people with disabilities and chronic illness.
10. Help Island Public - Help Island Public (HIP) is where Residents can learn anything they want to know about Second Life. There are building and scripting tutorials and information kiosks.

Ready to explore ? You can find hundreds of great landmarks on the Second Life Destination Guide. Check out my Newbies page on my blog for more help resources.

It’s always great to see great talent in Second Life and SL videos uploaded on YouTube.

The film lasts for 4 minutes & 7 seconds. Enjoy watching!

Check Kirsty Bertarelli……at http://www.kirstymusic.com
http://www.facebook.com/kirsty.bertarelli
http://www.youtube.com/user/KIRSTYmusic1
http://www.facebook.com/officialloverushuk

Film and Edited by Michelle Leckrone
http://www.youtube.com/michelleleckrone

Music – TWILIGHT (Loverush UK! Radio Edit) By Kirsty
Twilight was filmed during actual live performances in 3D virtual world,
Second Life on Loverush’s Global Island.

Filmed on Kirstens S22 Viewer

Video – Twilight (Loverush UK! Edit) by Kirsty – A LoverushUK! production.

The full remix package of “Twilight” with mixes by Armin Van Buuren, Full Intention, Loverush UK & Igor Blaska will be released on February 27th on KB Recordings. Keep checking Kirsty’s site for further details… xK http://www.kirstymusic.com

Katherine Prawl wrote a comment on NWN yesterday saying that the ISM sims are back online. YAY!

THE ISM IS BACK!!! Thanks to Wagner, and the community response in the blogosphere, and the rational reaction of a higher-up Linden, the museum is back on previous terms. We don’t need to buy new islands, the tier remains the same, and now the work begins. We need to normalize the IP issues with our builders, and we need to arrange reliable funding for the future. That crowdfunding idea Wagner mentioned early on is one option, and even beyond a one-time event, we’ll be talking to long-term donors.

Thanks, everyone, for your support! Watch our blog for announcements of a “Grand RE-Opening” party soon!

3:55am SLT – 22nd February 2012

Details 

Abbotts — Historic, oceanfront sim for sale

Second Life’s most-famous airport is up for grabs. Due to real-life pressures, I cannot maintain two sims, and must let Abbotts go. Surrounded by protected land on three sides, this beautiful property includes the airport structure, access to miles of open water.

Features

• Oceanfront property
• Historic, high-traffic land
• Protected sims on three sides

If you are interested in buying the sim contact the owner of Abbotts.

The sim has been bought by Ima Flanagan who loves animals. Here are snapshots of the new restructured Cartoonimals region.

TELEPORT HERE

I’m really happy and glad that Cartoonimals sim has been saved this month. YAY!

SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/London%20City/93/236/24

London City is the most popular destination in Second Life. Known for its community atmosphere, Parties, Concerts and Shopping, this 3D City is ready to welcome you!
Visit us in world: http://slurl.com/secondlife/London%20City/93/236/24
http://mainlandlondon.blogspot.com

Here are the mesh usage metrics mentioned this week.

• [12:38] Charlar Linden: Hey, want some metrics?
• [12:39] Charlar Linden: current stats for usage of modern viewers:
• [12:39] Charlar Linden: Residents – over 70%
• [12:40] Charlar Linden: Also, as far as uploading mesh, we’ve topped the previous high back in August – For the past two weeks we’ve averaged well over 1400 objects uploaded a day onto the maingrid.
• [12:41] Charlar Linden: “modern” supports mesh, as well as most other newer features.
• [12:42] Charlar Linden: Davido – that’s the average number of mesh objects uploaded each day.
• [12:45] Charlar Linden: 1540 on the day after we released mesh
• [12:46] Charlar Linden: As with all metrics, you really have to consider the context
• [12:46] Charlar Linden: these are things created and uploaded. They could have been used inworld 100 times after that.
• [12:47] Charlar Linden: What is means to me is that people are uploading more and more stuff; might be for resale, or for their own use.
• [12:49] Charlar Linden: Kaiser- over the past month we’ve *roughly* increased from about 1000 a day to about 1500 a day. It’s still continuing on that trend.

6th February 2012: Mesh regions are now at over 29% of the grid. Mesh went live last August and currently the mesh region adoption rate continues to rise. Don’t forget to upload mesh snapshots from Second Life to Second Life 3D Mesh Flickr group.

Update 3 will be posted next week.

Check out this amazing sim textured valentine’s theme on terraform me island. AWESOME!

I hope everyone likes my valentines red theme and countdown clock to mark this special occasion.

UPDATE

According to Katherine W Prawl there is good news about the ISM project in Second Life. Because of a recent accepted donation, the ISM team should be able to bring back the sims online when payment issues are resolved. ”ISM is coming back (as soon as we get the account straightened out)”. This is really good news and I’ll look forward to visiting ISM when it returns. YAY!

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It seems like Spaceport Alpha, Spaceport Bravo and NASA CoLab sims have already closed down this year. I was planning to visit the space sims again in Second Life this week but I found that the main ones I wanted to visit are no longer on the grid which is really sad news. I searched for the regions on the weekly New SL Sims in past week thread on the SLUniverse Forums and all three were listed there.

• Spaceport Alpha – been offline since mid January 2012
• Spaceport Bravo – been offline since mid Janaury 2012
• NASA CoLab – been offline since early February 2012

Today when I looked at the map it shows the remaining active space regions without the three Second Life space sims listed above. The teleports and SLurls failed straight away which is a real shame to be honest. To see these historical Second Life space locations disappear from Second Life completely is heart breaking.

• http://slurl.com/secondlife/Spaceport Alpha/47/82/23
• http://slurl.com/secondlife/Spaceport%20Bravo/42/75/27
• http://slurl.com/secondlife/NASA%20CoLab/244/110/23

The snapshot belows shows a map of the space regions back in July 2011.

Check out my blog post called Space exploration places in Second Life 2011.

The snapshot belows shows a map of the space regions back in July 2010. Since then various regions have been disappearing and it’s very alarming to see it so empty in the (above map).

There has been no explanation as to why these space SL sims have suddenly gone from the grid. If anyone knows why? Please feel free to comment. Thanks!

VWBPE 2012 attendance will be free, sessions will be live and recorded during the conference weekend. Yay!

The Virtual Worlds Best Practice in Education (VWBPE) is a community-based conference that provides opportunities for participants in all virtual worlds to share current teaching, learning, and research practices in 3D virtual environments. Conference presentations focus on teaching/learning, scholarly work, projects, events, activities and new and innovative tools for virtual education. Presenters will focus on the identification of best practices in education designed for 3D virtual world technology.

Watch this recently uploaded VWBPE 2012 video by EduMachinima Fest.

Here are the official 2011 VWBPE statistics from last year. I’m sure that VWBPE 2012 will be great fun and a big success. My hope is that more of the SL community will be more engaged with the conference this year.

In 2011, educators participated in:

• 150 virtual sessions
• Tours of eight virtual  worlds
• 52 interactive poster displays
• An Educational Machinima Fest
• Awards Ceremony celebrating the People’ Choice in Machinima and Interactive Poster displays

2011 Attendees included:

• 2411 unique avatars
• 7,290 hours
• 91 Counties and Territories

International Distribution

• North America 51.5%
• Europe 30%
• South America 6.3%
• Asia 5.7 %
• Oceania 3.5 %
• Middle East  1. 5%

Will you be attending VWBPE 2012 ?