BASIC SECOND LIFE SKILLS WORKSHOP #1 Nancy L. Zingrone, Ph.D. School of Psychology Northcentral University

NEWCOMER, NEWBIE, NOOB: WE’VE ALL BEEN THERE …  Finding Tutorials, Newcomer Classes, Newcomer Friendly-Neighborhoods  The Menus on the Second Life Viewer 3.0 and Third Party Platforms  Managing Your Inventory (or how not to drown under all your wonderful stuff!)  Chatting, Keeping a Chat Log  Finding Out About People Around You  Opening Boxes, Changing Clothes  Some Advice …

NEWCOMER SKILLS ON BLOGS & YOUTUBE …  Blogs:  Strawberry Singh: second-life-newbies-challenge/ second-life-newbies-challenge/  Canary Beck: to-second-life/ to-second-life/  YouTube Channels:  Second Life Tutorials Playlist on the Second Life Channel:  Nellie’s SLMOOC2016 Playlist: MsMAU&jct=ecVoBk-SAlAtfdPakPmXo6mTG8JW8g MsMAU&jct=ecVoBk-SAlAtfdPakPmXo6mTG8JW8g  Nellie’s SLMOOC2015 Playlist: UJq3h- UJq3h-  Nellie’s SLMOOC2014 Playlist:  aOquV aOquV

SECOND LIFE RESOURCES FOR NEWCOMERS …  Newcomer Friendly Sims:  Newcomer Questions on Second Life Discussion Forum: Forum/Newcomer-Questions/td-p/ Forum/Newcomer-Questions/td-p/  Helping Haven on Second Life: 8/22 8/22  New Resident Island:  Caledon/Oxbridge: 98/ /28

MENUS ON SL VIEWER 3 AND OTHER VIEWERS …  Menus on the Second Life Viewer 3 (the most recent one):  Viewer Settings Newcomers Don’t Know in Second Life: settings-newcomers-dont-know-in-second-life/ settings-newcomers-dont-know-in-second-life/  Firestorm Menus:  Second Life Viewer Left-hand Menu:  Firestorm Viewer Tutorials:

INVENTORY MENUS Second Life Viewer 3+ Firestorm Viewer Resembles old SL Viewers Folder Options

CHAT OPTIONS/CHAT LOG … On Second Life Viewer 3+On Firestorm

FINDING OUT ABOUT THE FOLKS AROUND YOU When you right click on yourself When you right click on others’ avatars Second Life Firestorm Second Life

WHAT’S ON THE PROFILE … Second LifeFirestorm

OPTIONS OFF THE PROFILE OR THE FRIENDS LIST … Benefits of “Friending Up”  Being able to see their names when logging on  Find their names to IM etc on Friends List  Can make notes on their profiles about who they are, how you met

OPENING BOXES...

CHANGING CLOTHES …  Watch Tutorial in SLMOOC Playlist about changing clothes & creating outfits: SyMWE1LA SyMWE1LA  Don’t click “replace outfit” if the box doesn’t contain a whole outfit or if you are in public

SOME ADVICE …  Sit yourself down somewhere quiet and give yourself the time to click on everything on the top menus, the left hand side tool bar, the bottom of the frame toolbar  is your friend: Lots of advices, examples, links to YouTube videos and tutorials  Use Google to ask “How To” questions, lot of gold there  Do explore Newcomer Orientation areas and ask advice  Radar notifications and Chat, usually lower left hand corner of the Viewer  Received items, animation menus, usually upper right hand corner of the Viewer

SOME MORE ADVICE …  If you are faced with unpleasant people:  Right click on their bodies and mute them  Fly away  Click on a Favorite Landmark and Teleport  If they are super unpleasant, abusive or inappropriate, you can:  Right click on their bodies and click on “report” or Click on “Help” and then “Report Abuse”  If you know the manager of the region, IM them privately and ask them to eject the person

AND A LITTLE MORE ADVICE …  If you get stuck in a building, or under something, or you’re just not sure where you are, click on a landmark and teleport away  Some public places will let you “Set Home to Here”, if you are a member of the SLMOOC group and you have activated your Group Tag (right click on group name, and click “activate”) you can set your Home to the SLMOOC HQ  If somebody doesn’t respond when you say hello remember:  They might be a speaker of another language  They might be away from their keyboard