Tutorials

Taking the time to develop your skills will help you get the most out of your SL experience. This site provides you with tutorials from the most basic level to advanced as well as dates of up coming trainings. We will continue to add more tutorials to this site, please visit often.

Live Trainings

We offer regular training sessions to our students in the beginning of each semester. For Summer 2013, training dates are listed below. Before attending a training session you must:

1. Create your Second Life Account, follow instrucitons in the following handouts: handout and getting started we also provide videos below,
2. Bring a Headset if required by your instructor.
3. Sign up for training session: http://training.utpa.edu
4. Be on time! We will not accept anyone attending 5 minutes after session started. 

Tutorials

Click on the links below to view some video tutorials & handouts

Getting Started: (handout)

Logging In

Going to UTPA

Second Life Interface 

Basics:

Classroom Basics

Editing Avatar's Appearance

Creating Landmarks

Teaching/Presenting:

Teaching tools, (teaching handouts)

Powerpoints, (powerpoint handouts)

Uploading Images, (Images handout)

Building:

Basic Building, (PDF)

The Marketplace, (marketplace handout)

If you would like us to develop a new tutorial, email your requests to secondlife@utpa.edu.