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|AnthroHub
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|Anthropology Library at UC Berkeley.
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|Arxiv at Cornell University Library
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|arXiv is an e-print service of 538,000 articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, quantitative biology and statistics
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|Applied Math and Science Education Repository
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|A portal of educational resources and services built specifically for use by those in Community and Technical Colleges but free for anyone to use. AMSER is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as part of the National Science Digital Library
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|CogPrints - Cognitive Science ePrint Archive
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|an electronic archive for self-archive papers in any area of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Linguistics, and many areas of Computer Science, Philosophy, Biology, Medicine, Anthropology, as well as any other portions of the physical, social and mathematical sciences that are pertinent to the study of cognition.
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|DASH - Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard
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|A central, open access repository for the scholarly output of faculty and the broader research community at Harvard.
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|eScholarship
|http://escholarship.org/
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|eScholarship provides a suite of open access, scholarly publishing services and research tools that enable departments, research units, publishing programs, and individual scholars associated with the University of California to have direct control over the creation and dissemination of the full range of their scholarship. With eScholarship, you can publish the following original scholarly works on a dynamic research platform available to scholars worldwide:
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|Free web books online
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|Ethos
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|British Library - Opening access to UK theses.
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|Google Books
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|Google Book Search
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|Harvard Page Delivery Service
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|Harvard University - Example: http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/14115881?n=1&imagesize=1200&jp2Res=0.125
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|ibiblio
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|ibiblio.org - the public's library and digital archiv
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|Internet Archive
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|Universal Access to Human Knowledge; Wayback machine; Permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format; includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in our collections, and is working to provide specialized services relating to training, education, or adaptive reading or information access needs of blind or other persons with disabilities
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|The Internet Public Library
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|The Internet Public Library is a public service organization and a learning/teaching environment; Ask an IPL Librarian Reference Service.
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|International Children's Digital Library
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|A Library for the World's Children
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|Library of Congress
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|LibriVox: Acoustical Liberation of Books in the Public Domain
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|Free audiobooks: volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Our goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books.
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|MIT Classics
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|Bringing the wisdom of the classics to the Internet since 1994
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|My Open Archive
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|Open Archive in Japanese
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|National Science Digital Library
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|Nation's online library for education and research in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics; K-12 and higher education.
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|Nature Precedings
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|Connects thousands of researchers and provides a platform for sharing new and preliminary findings with colleagues on a global scale. Post pre-print manuscripts, posters and presentations on Nature Precedings to claim priority and receive feedback on your findings prior to formal publication.
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|Online Archive of California
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|The Online Archive of California (OAC) provides free public access to detailed descriptions of primary resource collections maintained by more than 150 contributing institutions including libraries, special collections, archives, historical societies, and museums throughout California and collections maintained by the 10 University of California (UC) campuses.
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|Online Literature Library
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|The online literature library
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|PLoS Biology
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|A peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by the Public Library of Science
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|PLoS One
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|An interactive open-access journal for the communication of all peer-reviewed scientific and medical research
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|Project Gutenberg
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|Over 100,000 titles are available at Project Gutenberg Partners, Affiliates and Resources
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|PubMedCentral
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|a free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) and is developed and managed by NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in the National Library of Medicine (NLM).
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|Twitter Biomedical Journals
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|University of Pennsylvania's Online Books
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|Listing over 35,000 free books on the Web
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|World Digital Library
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|The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.
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=== Academic Jobs Wikis ===
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| Academic Jobs Wiki
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=== Collaborative Knowledge Bases ===
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| AcaWiki
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| Fotopedia
| http://www.fotopedia.com/
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| The first collaborative photo encyclopedia - lets photographers and photo enthusiasts collaborate and enrich images to be useful for the whole world wide web.
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| Freebase
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| Freebase is a large collaborative knowledge base. It is an online collection of structured data harvested from many sources, including individual 'wiki' contribution.
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|Mendeley Research Networks' Public Collections
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|Organize, share, and discover research papers! Mendeley is a research management tool for desktop & web. You can also explore research trends and connect to other academics in your discipline.
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|Webnographers.org
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|A central hub for those interested in ethnography and anthropology of the internet - bibliographies, ideas, library, tools, directories.
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===Dictionaries===
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|Encyclopedia of Life
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|An electronic page for each species of organism on Earth?
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|Knol
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|dedicated to advancing the study of economics, markets, and liberty. It offers a unique combination of resources for students, teachers, researchers, and aficionados of economic thought.
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|Library of Economics and Liberty
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|Liberty Fund, Inc.
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|Wikipedia
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|The free encyclopedia
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|wikiHow
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|The How-to Manual That You Can Edit
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|Conversations with History
|http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/
|Institute of International Studies: University of California, Berkeley
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|The Institute of International Studies promotes interdisciplinary research in international, comparative, and policy studies on the Berkeley campus of the University of California. Established in 1955, the Institute focuses today on the following intellectual themes: Peace and global security in the 21st century; Environment, demography, and sustainability; Globalization, development, and human rights; Technological change and the transformation of the global economy
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|TED Talks
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|TED is an academic organization dedicated to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds:
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|Google Earth
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|Google Earth Viewer
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|Crouch Fine Arts Library at Baylor University audio streaming databases
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|Music files from these databases can be downloaded on user's mobile devices
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|The C/W MARS library network in Massachusetts
|http://cwmars.lib.overdrive.com/A7EA430F-765D-4306-AB3D-E2ED2ECB8016/10/344/en/Default.htm
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|Duke University Libraries digitized image collections
|http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/
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|available through the DukeMobile iPhone app (over 32,000 images)
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|A Library for the World's Children
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|New York Public Library ebooks and audiobooks
|http://ebooks.nypl.org/35E3E0ED-BCEE-4291-A3E6-5D5F6D514269/10/257/en/Default.htm
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|ebooks and audiobooks via the OverDrive service, also for the Mac.
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|University of Alaska Fairbanks - Audiobooks
|http://listenalaska.lib.overdrive.com/F7F1D30D-101C-4CC6-A9F1-E5DE9F846DA3/10/337/en/Default.htm
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|IEEE Xplore documents directly on your mobile device. You can view up to [only] TEN (10) article abstracts per search. To view full-text articles, send the article links to your e-mail address.
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|A catalog of over 7,000 high-resolution close-up pictures of live, wild insects and spiders with descriptions and natural history.
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|California Learning Resource Network (CLRN) - Free Digital Textbook Initiative
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|a list of standards aligned free digital textbooks for high schools that cover the course content in mathematics and science subject areas.
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|CK-12's FlexBook Tool
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|8 textbooks; A place where you can find and customize content. Physical Sciences, Optics, Elements and the Periodic Table, Behavior of Gases, Mathematics, Advanced Geometry, Functions, Trigonometry, Life Science, Human Biology, Living Systems, Genetics
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|Connexions
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|1 textbook; a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc.
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|Curriki
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|2 textbooks; Curriki is an online environment created to support the development and free distribution of world-class educational materials to anyone who needs them
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|English / Language Arts
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|Need free, world-class elementary level textbook
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|English Language Development
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|Need free, world-class elementary level textbook
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|Foreign Language
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|Need free, world-class elementary level textbook
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|Health Course
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|Need free, world-class elementary level textbook
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|History-Social Science
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|Need free, world-class elementary level textbook
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|Need free, world-class elementary level textbook
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|Need free, world-class elementary level textbook
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|WikiBooks
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|a Wikimedia community for creating a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit. Wikibooks began on July 10, 2003; since then Wikibooks has grown to include over 38,073 pages
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|California Legacy Project
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|over 500 California Legacy Project Radio Anthology scripts, with some Machinima
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|Classic Book Shelf
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|The literature network - We currently have over 1900 full books and over 3000 short stories and poems by over 250 authors. Our quotations database has over 8500 quotes.
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|Dave McKay's Philosophy Books
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|Philosophy texts
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|E-Books Directory
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|E-Books Directory is a daily growing list of freely downloadable ebooks, documents and lecture notes found all over the internet. You can submit and promote your own ebooks, add comments on already posted books or just browse through the directory below and download anything you need.
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|EPubs
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|EPUB formatted eBooks which will allow users of modern eBooks readers to have the best possible reading experience.
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|Free Books
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|A lifetime of free audio ebooks and chapters
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|Free Books - Australia
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|Many book collections in the public domain may be freely accessed here
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|The Free Library
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|News, Magazines, Newspapers, Journals, Reference Articles and Classic Books
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|Gigapedia
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|lots of free quality ebooks!
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|Library Thing
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|A home for your books. Enter what you’re reading or your whole library. It’s an easy, library-quality catalog. A community of 900,000 book lovers. LibraryThing connects you to people who read what you do.
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|Online Text
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|Planet Book
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|Classic literature for download as free eBooks
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|Poem Hunter
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|Free Poetry Ebooks E-books
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| Discover Second Life
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| A simple list of ways to discover cool stuff in Second Life.
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| Global Kids' Digital Media Initiative - "Education" search
| http://www.holymeatballs.org/mt/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=1&search=education
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| Global Kids explores how to bring a youth development model around global issues into an island within this teen grid, including education-wise
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| ISTE Eduverse Talks
| http://www.iste-eduverse.org/
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| highlights innovations in educational technology, in both real life and Second Life.
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| Learning in Second Life
| http://twitter.com/learninginworld
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| where educational institutions are using Second Life as a cost-effective platform to augment an existing curriculum or explore new mode
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| Metaverse Journal
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| site devoted to bringing an Australian perspective to virtual worlds
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| SalamanderWiki - Second Life Resources
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| Second Life Education in New Zealand
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| Second Life Education Programs' manager, Claudia Linden of Linden Lab
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| shares great examples and ideas about education in Second Life
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| Second Life Education Roundtable
| https://blogs.secondlife.com/community/learninginworld
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| Linden Lab’s Learning Inworld blog where we explore how teachers, students, and administrators—within educational institutions—are using Second Life as a compelling and cost-effective platform to augment existing curriculum and practice new models of learning
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| Second Life Educational Events' Calendar, Where You Can Teach, Too
| http://secondlife.com/events
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| Select 'Education;' Teach and learn virtually in Second Life via educational events' calendar
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| Second Life Educators' Email List
| https://lists.secondlife.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/educators
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| This list is for educators interested in or currently using Second Life, and we will be using it to send out information we feel is of interest to educators and academic
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| Second Life Tours
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| Resource Database for Second Life Educators - Keep track of educational content and organizations in the popular virtual world.
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| Virtual Worlds Roundtable
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|Internet Papers
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