Second Life Help for New Residents (Lee's RLetc Guide)

07-06-2010, 11:25 AM

Second Life Help for New Residents

Where can you go to get help, information, training and the resources to get up and running and playing in Second Life?

☛ Community Gateways

"A Community Gateway (CG) is a starting point for new Residents of SL which is not maintained by Linden Lab, but by an established community in SL. These gateways offer their own orientation path to give Residents an easy start."

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Community_Gateway
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Cate...munity_Gateway




☛ Help & Welcome Centers ✰ A Best Bet

You can find locations built for the express purpose of helping new residents in Second Life. They are often populated with formal volunteers, the occasional Linden Lab employee and a whole lot of random people who just like to help and answer questions and meet people. You will often find freebies and tutorials and class schedules at the Help Centers.

Help & Welcome Centers are "a combination of content, objects, and services developed to help newcomers discover the advantages of Second Life as quickly and as easily as possible."

http://forums-archive.secondlife.com.../304365/1.html
http://rezzable.com/blog/thinkerer-m...r-notice-lists
http://thinkerer.org/SLintChan/SLinChLev1.htm




☛ RLetc.com Second Life Guides ✰ A Best Bet

Fellow RLetc.com forum whores have created Second Life Guides with all kinds of tips and tricks and good information. Right here in RLetc.com!

There are actually a lot of Second Life fan forum sites out there with people who have the ability and willingness to answer questions and help out. Google is your friend.




☛ RLetc.com inworld Second Life Group

Join RLetc.com's inworld Second Life Group. Open a Group chat. Put a call out for help. There may be a member online willing to answer questions or show you around. Give it a try.





☛ Youtube ✰ A Best Bet

Linden Lab employees and regular Second Life residents and fans have posted lots of helpful tutorial videos.





☛ Second Life Wiki ✰ A Best Bet

I'm a regular on that site. It's like a Second Life encyclopedia. Good stuff, Maynard.

You can do subject-specific searches or read the User's Manual.

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Help...in_Second_Life
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Support




☛ SecondLife.com

The Second Life website has loads of useful information and links.

http://secondlife.com/destinations/howto
http://secondlife.com/support




☛ Second Life Official Blog & Forums

Second Life has a forum. There are sections of it devoted to answering questions and assisting new residents.

http://blogs.secondlife.com/community/answers




☛ Second Life

• Second Life Help F1
• Tutorial
• Official Linden Blog
• Search

☛ Second Life for Dummies

There's a Second Life for Dummies book in Second Life. You can find it at many Welcome and Freebie Centers or get it from a fellow resident.




☛ Second Life Volunteer Help Groups ✰ A Best Bet

There are Second Life Volunteer Help Groups made up of people ready, willing and knowledgable who signed up because they wanted to help people like you.

Look for them using your Search function in Second Life or on the Second Life website.





☛ People

Fellow Second Life residents. A lot of them love to help. RLetc.com members too.

One of the people who helped me the most when I first joined Second Life? A guy I met at Lar's Place, a club. The other people who have helped me? RLetc.com forum whores right here in the Second Life threads. Those Guides and discussion threads are pure GOLD. I've also used and abused Steph's patience and goodwill quite bit. I yelled "Steph" the way Brando yelled "Stella." Her request? Pass it on. "YOU help the NEXT newbie." 

One of the people Gi says has helped her the most in Second Life? A Bloodline vampire she met in a Welcome Center, who after politely accepting Gi's choice not to participate in Bloodlines, proceeded to coach her on Second Life, give her freebies and landmarks, and show her around.



What am I forgetting or missing? Loads of stuff in all likelihood! If you really look for help in Second Life, you will be overwhelmed by what's out there.



Note: The underlined headers in this thread are clickable links. Try 'em.

Continued at:  http://www.rletc.com/showthread.php?2799-Second-Life-Help-for-New-Residents

 

Downloading and Getting Started in Second Life (Lee's RLetc Guide)

Downloading and Getting Started in Second Life

09-09-2010, 09:45 AM

1. Check the minimum suggested requirements.
http://secondlife.com/support/system-requirements/
http://www.rletc.com/showthrea...d+requirements

2. Sign up for a Second Life account.
https://join.secondlife.com/

3. Download a Second Life viewer product.
http://secondlife.com/support/downloads/
https://secure-web37.secondlife.com/...port/downloads

4. Review the Wikis and Guides.
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/I_wa..._do_I_begin%3F
http://www.rletc.com/showthrea...life+residents

5. Read this guide: GUIDE: Second Life Help for New Residents.

6. Go to a Help Center and check in with a volunteer.

7. Have fun.

NCI Kuula - New Citizens Incorpo, Kuula (55, 168, 28)
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Kuula/55/169/29
Classes, Freebies, Help




Help People! Island, Help People Island (53, 30, 23)
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Help%20P...sland/41/44/24

http://www.rletc.com/showthread.php?3128-Downloading-and-Getting-Started-in-Second-Life 

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Defining Our Terms

I posted this on my Second Life Feed.  It was relevant to a discussion we were having at the time.




I'm using Wikipedia and Merriam-Webster for this.

Argument:  a reason given in a rebuttal, discourse intended to persuade, a coherent series of statements leading from a premise to a conclusion, a summary, and attempt to persuade someone of something, by giving reasons or evidence for accepting a particular conclusion

Assertion:  the act of asserting, declaring, affirming, stating or declaring something positively and often forcefully or aggressively, demonstrating something's existence; a proposition that is repeatedly restated regardless of contradiction, a statement made with assurance, confidence or force, to postulate


Contention:  a point advanced or maintained in a debate or argument, the act of striving or vying in contest or rivalry or against difficulties, the act of maintaining or asserting

Debate:  a contention by words or arguments, the formal dicussion of a motion, a regulated discussion of a proposition between matched sides, a method of interactive and respresentational argument, a contest in which people discuss and decide on differences within a framework defining how they will interact

Premise:  a proposition antecedently supposed or proved as a basis of argument or inference, something assumed or taken for granted, matters previously stated and accepted, a statement that an argument claims will induce or justify a conclusion, an assumption that something is true

Proposition:  something offered for consideration or acceptance, a proposal, the point to be discussed or maintained in argument usually stated in sentence form near the outset, a problem to be demonstrated or performed, an expression of something that can be believed, doubted or denied, a point of debate



Rebuttal:  the act of driving or beating back, contradicting or opposing, exposing the falsity of something, making or furnishing an answer or counter proof, a form of ecidence that is presented to contradict or nullify other evidence that has been presented by an adverse party, statements designed to refute or negate specific arguments put forward by opponents, disconfirmation, disproof, confutation, refutation, an objection to an objection is known as a rebuttal

Refuting:  to prove wrong by argument or evidence, show to be false or erroneous


Evidence:  something that furnishes or demonstrates proof, testimony, the currency by which one fulfills the burden of proof

Proof:  the cogency of evidence that compels acceptance by the mind of a truth or a fact, the process or instance of establishing the validity of a stement especially by derivation from other statements in accordance with principles of reasoning, something that induces certainty or establishes validity, sufficient evidence or argument for the truth of a proposition



Objection: a reason or argument presented in opposition, a feeling or expression of disapproval, a motion to disallow, an expostulation or refutation, a reason arguing against a premise, a challenge, protest, complaint or demurral.  An objection ot an objection is known as a rebuttal.

Observation:  the act of seeing, recognizing or noticing a fact or occurrence, a record or description so obtained, a judgment or inference based on what one has noticed, awareness, cognizance

Opposition:  an act or condition of being hostile, contrary in action or condition, setting opposite or over against, defiance, resistance, counterbalance, contrast, resistance


Coherent:  logically or aesthetically ordered or integrated, consistent, having clarity or intelligibility, holding together, apprehensible by the intellect, capable of being understood and comprehended


Rational:  having reason or understanding, agreeable to reason, reasonable, intelligent, thinking

Reason:  a statement offered in explanation or justification, a rational ground or motive, logical defense, the power of comprehending, inferring or thinking in rational ways, sane and intelligent, the capacity to make sense of things, to establish and verify facts



Causation:  the act or agency which produces an effect; the establishment of liability, the belief that events occur in predictable ways and that one event leads to another, a relationship that describes and analyzes cause and effect; cause, reason,

Conclusion:  a reasoned judgment, inference, the necessary consequence of two or more propositions taken as premises, a final decision and/or summation, determination, deduction, induction, inference, the reaching of a logically necessary and sound end decision by reasoning based on evidence, a statement made when an idea or thought is settled

Correlation:  a relationship existing between phenomena or things not expected on the basis of chance alone, a measure of relationship between two values


Affirm:  to state positively, to assert as valid, true or confirmed, to express dedication to, to uphold a judgment, to declare one's support for, uphold or defend, claim, allege, assert, aver, avouch, contend, purport,



https://my.secondlife.com/leehere.absent
http://en.wikipedia.org
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary


ETA:

Resolution:  a formal expression of opinion or intention made, a resolve or determination,. a statement which is debated.  In policy debate, a resolution or topic is a normative statement which the affirmative team affirms and the negative team negates. At the college level, a number of topics are proposed and interested parties write 'topic papers' discussing the pros and cons of that individual topic. Each school then gets one vote on the topic. The single topic area voted on then has a number of proposed topic wordings, one is chosen, and it is debated by affiliated students nationally for the entire season. The high school policy debate topic is selected annually under the auspices of the National Federation of State High School Association's Speech, Debate, and Theater Association. The topic process calls for two rounds of voting, the first narrowing down five initial choices to two, and the second selecting the final resolution. In each round, each state has a vote, the National Forensic League has a vote, and the National Catholic Forensic League has a vote. Each state's activities association has its own process for determining the state's vote.

Mean:  offensive, nasty, hostile, selfish, unaccommodating, hurtful, cruel, malicious, small-minded, ignoble, petty, stingy, inferior in quality and character, low in status rank or dignity, contemptible, despicable, vile, base.


Sockpuppet:  A sockpuppet is an online identity used for purposes of deception, a false identity assumed by a member of an internet community who spoke to, or about himself while pretending to be another person, misleading online identities, such as those created to praise, defend or support a third party or organization.  A significant difference between the use of a pseudonym and the creation of a sockpuppet is that the sockpuppet poses as an independent third-party unaffiliated with the puppeteer, a person whose actions are controlled by another; a minion, an extra online identity created by a member of a discussion forum, etc, to agree with opinions submitted under his or her usual online name

Alt:  an alternate account, an alternate character, often referred to in slang as alt, alt char, or less commonly multi, is a character in addition to one's "primary" or "Main" player character.  Typically, alternate characters are used less frequently than the "primary" characters, but sometimes players may use them just as often. They should be distinguished from completely unused (dormant) characters, which may even get deleted for lack of activity. Alternate characters can be used to try out the different abilities of different player races, or character classes. Also, one frequent use is to play characters of opposite gender. Frequently, people use alternate characters to "re-live" the game experience; high-level characters may end up running low on things to do, but deleting the character and starting completely over is often undesirable. Often, people create another character to see what new features have been added since they last were on a low level character.  Sometimes in-game business owners will use an alt for pleasure, friendship and fun and their main for business or vice versa.  Some people use an alt for sex.  Some people use an alt for uninterrupted building time.

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