Second+Life

**Second Life** =Second Life=

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//**Second Life**// (//**SL**//) is a [|virtual world] developed by [|Linden Lab] that launched on June 23, 2003 and is accessible via the [|Internet]. A free [|client program] called the Second Life Viewer enables its users, called [|Residents], to interact with each other through [|avatars]. Residents can explore, meet other residents, socialize, participate in individual and group activities, and create and trade [|virtual property] and services with one another, or travel throughout the world, which residents refer to as the grid. Second Life caters to users aged eighteen and over, while its sister site [|Teen Second Life] is for younger users.

**Resources:** Ideas for the Classroom: **
 * [|What is Second Life]
 * Educational Uses of Second Life
 * Lists of educational uses
 * [|Slide show] of Educational Ideas for the Classroom