The Virtual Worlds Handbook, with CD-ROM, provides a user-friendly approach that will help trainers and educators create an effective and interactive environment within the Second Life virtual world. This book was written to help the novice user tackle the natural learning curve while providing the experienced user with tips, tools, and tricks to help any educator or trainer meet their professional goals faster. The opportunities using virtual reality are limitless and provide online students with a unique opportunity to connect both physically and educationally to one another, to faculty, to university, and to a worldwide market.
Chapter 1: Virtual Environments
Chapter 2: Creating Your Account and Beginning Your Journey
Chapter 3: Customizing the New You and Your First Home
Chapter 4: Let's Go Virtual
Chapter 5: Inventory Overload
Chapter 6: Basic Building Skills
Chapter 7: Intermediate Building Skills
Chapter 8: Advanced Building: Design and Interactivity
Chapter 9: Designing Your Land
Chapter 10: University and Program Assessment
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