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Other Virtual Worlds

Second Life and Wonderland are not the only virtual world environments by any means. Below is a partial list of interactive environments with at least 1 million registered users.


* Sun's DarkStar and Wonderland platform and client - open source projects
* Croquet Project Consortium - open source
* There.com
* Twinitiy
* Habbo Hotel - the world's largest virtual hangout
* Utherverse
* Gaia
* Stardoll - design a celebrity avatar
* Meez - create and export your own 3D avatar
* vMTV - MTV's Virtual World chatroom
* Active Worlds
* Entropia Universe
* Kaneva - a Virtual World for gamers
* Hipihi - Chinese Virtual World
* Cybertown - Civilization for the Virtual Age
* IMVU - 3D chat
* moove online
* 3B - your personalized 3D space in the 3D browser
* Gogofrog
* Club Marian

To view research on current Virtual Worlds including demographic breakdowns, case studies, and diagrams please visit KZero

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Research on Virtual Worlds in Education

KZero - virtual world research and case studies across multiple areas
Wonderland 0.5 - documentation on the progression of the 0.5 client
References on SL use in education - developed in Virginia Tech
Virtual Worlds Biblioographic List
Annotated bibliography of Second Life On-Line Resources - developed by Purdue Uinversity 
The University of Michigan 3D Lab - From their website "In response to increasing demand, the UM3D Lab has begun investigating the popular online world called Second Life." Feb. 1, 2007
The SimTeach 12 - The Who, When, Where and How of Second Life as a Teaching Tool in 2006
Compiled by Jeremey W. Kemp, MEd, MSJ, December 2006, www.simteach.com
Conklin, M. S. (2005). 101 uses for second life in the college classroom
Second Life as a Teaching Platform - among SLresidents
Chris Dede, Second life chat

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Videos

These videos highlight the potential of Virtual Worlds in Education.

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Engineering - civil and mechanical

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Creative Research Lab (CRLab) - University of Montana - Terry Beaubois, Director
http://www.montana.edu/crlab/
    - traffic flow studies of West Oakland, CA
    - urban renewal projects
    - URL http://aec.cadalyst.com/aec/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=451110 

STEM work in Second Life Life

SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGY-ENGINEERING-MATH

Universities 

Elon University: Elon, NC
http://www.elon.edu 

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Exploratorium (Contact: Patio Plasma or Pepto Majestic)
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Exploratorium/147/118/21
http://www.exploratorium.edu/worlds/secondlife

Institute of Physics Experimental Plots (Contact: Phenomenon Young)
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Rakshasa/201/14/26

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 - Crossmedia-Projekt: Eventmanagement im Sport
   http://slurl.com/secondlife/Campus%20Hamburg/67/203/22
 
- Students@work: Projects for and from Students
   Contact: Tyke McMillan aka Torsten Reiners (reiners@econ.uni-hamburg.de)
   http://slurl.com/secondlife/Campus%20Hamburg/71/58/21/?title=Students@work

Wiki Markup \- Institute of Information Systems (Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik)    Contact: Tyke McMillan \[[ - Institute of Information Systems (Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik)
   Contact: Tyke McMillan
[http://slurl.com/secondlife/Campus%20Hamburg/71/58/21]\[\]

Sungshin University - Korea
http://slurl.com/secondlife/joongang/144/235/21

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Foreign Language Volunteers
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Category:Languages_spoken_by_Volunteers