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Publish my article in a WUaS academic journal in this subject
Open Journal Systems. 2012. Open Journal Systems. Public Knowledge Project.

(WUaS's wiki, information technologies and criteria for this - informed by the WUaS academic journal subject matter - are developing, since you can already publish your article at http://www.academia.edu).

Select Book Groups, Study Groups, Musical Groups, etc.
Begin a Google + Hangout: https://plus.google.com/u/0/108179352492243955816/posts

Calendar: https://www.google.com/calendar/

Select Books
Boellstorff, Tom. 2008. Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Boellstorff, Tom, Bonnie Nardi, Celia Pearce & T. L. Taylor (eds.) George E. Marcus (foreword). 2012. Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Select Communities, Email lists, etc.
(See also editable World University and School's 'You at World University' page: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/You_at_World_University).

Select Films
Second Life Materials. 2012. Second Life Materials. (Mesh Building Components; Viewer support for Normal and Specular Maps, as well as some additional controls for how light reflects from faces). Youtube.com.

Moshel, Daniel. 2009. Login2Life. (login2life trailer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znOJCDXSAMI). (http://www.login2life.net/-Login2Life is a documentary film, directed by Daniel Moshel, which portrays people, some of whom are handicapped, who have found an alternate home in an online world in Second Life. This is the starting point of a journey into fascinating virtual realities, meeting diverse human beings in different parts of the world who have one thing in common – they are savvy in using virtual worlds as an extension of their real lives). Munich, Germany: Eidolon Entertainment in Coproduction with Moshel Film, ZDF - Das kleine Fernsehspiel and ORF.

Select Libraries, Archives, Collections, etc.
Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable Transcript Library. 2012. VWER Meeting Transcript by Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable. (Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable - VWER - has met every Thursday at 11:30 am Pacific Time for 4 years - http://slurl.com/secondlife/BGSU%20Community/53/86/25). www.vwer.org/

(See also editable World University and School's Library Resources' page: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources).

Select Museums
(See also editable World University and School's Museums' page: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Museums).

Select References
Allen, Tim. 2011. Auto Draft - Wharton Higher Ed Web Symposium. July 15. Philadelphia, PA: peregrinesalon.com.

Applications and Network Futurists. 2007. Applications and Network Futurists. UC Davis/Intel.

Au, Wagner James. 2011. The BBC Covers SL-to-RL 3D Printed Fractal Cubes. December 7. New World Notes.

Au, Wagner James. 2011. Ms. Ohmai's Excellent Second Life Inventory Sorting Tutorial (But Oh If Only We Didn't Need This Tutorial at All). July 8. New World Notes.

Au, Wagner James. 2011. Neal Stephenson: Enough On Me & the Metaverse Already!. December 6. New World Notes.

Au, Wagner James. 2011. New World Gaming: World of Warcraft, You're Losing Subscribers; Please Grow the Market by Going Free-to-Play. May 10. New World Notes.

Au, Wagner James. 2011. Top 50 Popular Second Life Sims for June 2011. May 10. New World Notes.

Au, Wagner James. 2013. Woman with Parkinson's Reports Significant Physical Recovery After Using Second Life - Academics Researching. February 7. New World Notes.

Boellstorff, Tom, Bonnie Nardi, Celia Pearce & T. L. Taylor (With a foreword by George E. Marcus). 2012. Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Boyle, Alan. 2011. Science thrives in virtual worlds. March 25. cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com

Castronova, Edward. 2011. Insurance for Virtual Goods. July 11. Terra Nova.

Castronova, Edward. 2011. Resources for Designing Virtual Economies. November 12. Terra Nova.

Dibbell, Julian. 2011. Google+ to Second Lifers: Get Real. July 12. terranova.blogs.com.

Etherington, Darrell. 2013. Google Visualizes Massive Changes To The Face Of The Earth With New Timelapse Project. May 9. techcrunch.com.

Floyd. 2013. guild wars and mmo. January 14. goodsgears.com/2013/01/guild-wars-2-and-mmo.

Forcella, Vick. 2013. My 2013 wishlist for Second Life. January 3. vickforcella.wordpress.com.

Greenhaw, Andy. 2008. University uses Second Life for nurses training. November 24. Kansan.

Hemmerly-Brown, Alexandra. 2011. DoD gives PTSD help 'second life' in virtual reality. January 24. http://www.army.mil. Marshall, Gary. 2011. [http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/whatever-happened-to-second-life--1030314 Whatever happened to Second Life? In Depth: Why the hype didn't help - and where SL's headed now]. September 30. techradar.com.

Learning STEM Skills by Designing Video Games (Is School Enough? Series). 2013. Learning STEM Skills by Designing Video Games (Is School Enough? Series). http://www.edutopia.org/is-school-enough-game-based-learning-stem-video.

MacLeod, Scott. 2013. Developing a virtual Harbin, Oculus Rift digital immersive goggles, Claude Monet-informed style, into interactive, and also realistic, 3-D, immersive environments, Ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy too (for group building as in OpenSim and Second Life, etc.) ... See, too Virtual Worlds and Wearable Electronics at WUaS, E-Meditation. August 3. Canyon, CA: scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/08/chameleons-developing-virtual-harbin.html.

Morgan, Colleen L. 2009. (Re)Building Catalhoyuk: Changing Virtual Reality in Archaeology. Archaeologies: Journal of the World Archaeological Congress.

Simon, Stephanie. 2010. [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703909804575124470868041204.htmlAvatarII: The Hospital Health-care facilities are discovering that practicing in the virtual world can have major benefits in real life]. April 13. New York, NY: Wall Street Journal.

TOTILO, STEPHEN. 2012. [http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/10/forget-playing-games-everyone-needs-to-make-games/ Forget Playing Games, Everyone Needs To Make Games. 24 OCTOBER. Australia: kotaku.com.au

Triglav, Joc. 2000. Why Walk When We Can Fly?. October / November. Academia.edu.

Virtual world. 2012. Virtual world. Wikipedia.

Wynne, Nigel. 2012. COMSLIVE – Communication Skills Learning in Immersive Virtual Environments. Open Wonderland Blog.

Terraforming in virtual worlds

torley. 2008. LAND: Terraforming - Second Life Video TuTORial. Torley.com

Select Slideshows
Allen, Tim. 2010. 1/26/2010: The Magic Circle: Realistic Expectations for Virtual Worlds. January 25. Philadelphia, PA: peregrinesalon.com.

Deeds, David. 2012. Best Practices Showcase: 3D Virtual Worlds in (K-12/International) Schools. March 13. slideshare.net.

Doherty, Paul. 2012. Dark Matter. (a talk given on February 11, 2012 by Paul Doherty, Senior Scientist at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, also known as Patio Plasma in SL, and director of The Splo Museum (in SL). A brief overview of what we know about dark matter, some history of when the idea arose, and current experiments designed to detect or otherwise figure out what dark matter is. "I gave a lecture this morning in the virtual world of Second Life for the Meta Institute for Computational Astrophysics on Dark Matter. I used images as well as constructing 3D interactive objects. At the beginning of the presentation I am referring to 3 boxlike objects one black representing dust in visible light, one red representing dust glowing in the infrared. And one transparent representing Dark Matter, which is't actually dark, it is transparent. I'll upload an image of the boxes.") San Francisco, CA: The Exploratorium.

Select Video and Audio
Doherty, Paul. 2012. Exploratorium Tour - Part 1 of 5. San Francisco, CA: KirkwoodSLGroup.

Djorski, S. George. 2011. TEDxCaltech - S. George Djorgovski - Evolving Science and Technology in Cyberspace. Pasadena, CA: TEDxTalks.

Drax, Bernhard. 2013. The Drax Files: World Makers (Episode 1: Kriss Lehmann). youtube.com.

Fearless Nation. 2011. Fearless Nation. (Fearless Nation, located in Second Life, offers tremendous support, hope and help for those who suffer from Post - Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Fearless Nation gives information about latest scientific research and information in this field, while providing a community of people from around the world who help themselves and each other). Fearless Nation.

Forte, Maurizio, 2012. Cyber Archaeology. Durham, NC: Duke University.

Kassabian, Deke. 2011. Video: Penn in Second Life. April 19. (http://www.upenn.edu/computing/isc/virtual-worlds/PennInSL.html). Philadelphia, PA: peregrinesalon.com.

Kassabian, Deke. 2011. Virtual Worlds at the University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania.

MUVE Market - Virtual Patient Care Simulation Lab. 2010. MUVE Market - Virtual Patient Care Simulation Lab. (MUVE Market Virtual Patient Care Simulation Lab is an outstanding platform for medical training. Here is a compelling and detailed video that highlights some of the great features they offer and which are made possible in the Virtual World of Second Life). Youtube.com.

mysecondlifefun. 2013. VIRTUAL ART & DESIGN IN SECOND LIFE ~ L E A SIMS 2013. Youtube.com.

Nicolelis, Miquel. 2013. [http://www.ted.com/talks/miguel_nicolelis_a_monkey_that_controls_a_robot_with_its_thoughts_no_really.html Miguel Nicolelis: A monkey that controls a robot with its thoughts. No, really]. TEDMED 2012.

Parry, Kyle. 2012. Trees and Physical-Virtual Borderlands: metaLAB and the Arnold Arboretum. Cambridge, MA: cyber.law.harvard.edu.

In German

German TV Live Show featuring LOGIN2LIFE. 2011. ON3 Südwild TV SHOW featuring LOGIN2LIFE. (http://on3.de/element/11928/on3-suedwild-vom-18-bis-21-oktober-2011-graz#/element/12006/on3-suedwild-aus-graz-die-sendung-vom-freitag). ON3 Südwild.

Select Websites
Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences - Hall of Fame. 2013. AIAS Special Awards. interactive.org/special_awards/.

Virtual Worlds' Education. 2012. Virtual Worlds' Education. (http://slurl.com/secondlife/BGSU%20Community/53/86/25). virtualworldsedu.info

Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable. 2012. Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable. (Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable - VWER - has met every Thursday at 11:30 am Pacific Time for 4 years - http://slurl.com/secondlife/BGSU%20Community/53/86/25). www.vwer.org/

Lists of most, known, virtual worlds

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massively_multiplayer_online_role-playing_games

http://arianeb.com/more3Dworlds.htm

http://www.virtualworldsreview.com/info/categories.shtml

MMORPG Gamelist - All MMO Games. 2012. MMORPG Gamelist - All MMO Games (List of known MMORPGs - massively multiplayer online role-playing games). www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm

Select Wikis
jokaydia Virtual Worlds Wiki!. 2013. jokaydia Virtual Worlds Wiki!: Exploring Virtual Worlds and Games in Education and Training. wiki.jokaydia.com.

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In Virtual World
3D Learn. 2013. http://www.learningin3d.info/

Active Worlds Educational Universe (AWEDU). 2012. http://www.activeworlds.com/edu/

Alice. 2012. http://www.alice.org/

Minecraft. 2012. www.minecraft.net

Edusim. 2013. http://edusim3d.com/

Gifted Kids.ie. 2013. http://www.giftedkids.ie/daynuv.html

ISTE – SIGMS. 2013. http://sigms.iste.wikispaces.net/secondlifeplayground2010

Open Cobalt. 2013. http://www.opencobalt.org/

OpenSim. 2012. http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page (http://www.scribd.com/doc/57959626/OpenSimulator-School-Quick-Start-Guide)

Open Croquet. 2012. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?OpenCroquet and http://www.opencroquet.org/

Open Wonderland. 2012. http://openwonderland.org/

Primary Games. 2013. http://www.primarygames.com/arcade/virtualworlds.php

Quest Atlantis. 2012. http://atlantisremixed.org/ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZoT3pilNPI).

SimScience. 2012. http://simscience.org/

Second Life - Harvard's virtual island. 2012. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Berkman/115/53/25 - and teach, learn and share ideas - in group voice chat, or in group type chat, and via building.

Unity3D. 2012. http://unity3d.com/

WiloStar3D. 2013. https://www.wilostar3d.com/

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