They are only ideas, not recommendations, for sites that upper division students could potentially explore to better understand course materials. Information, interactions, and objects found on some of these sims may NOT be appropriate for the meek.
MacLaren's Drift
The town of Prosperity on MacLaren's Drift, once terraformed for ore miners. Now this out-of-the-way moon is the perfect place to make your way in the 'Verse, so long as you stay ahead of the reavers, alliance, criminals and pirates
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Wells/64/64/2
UC Davis Virtual Hallucinations Project
Accessing the virtual hallucinations project requires that you download and install the Second Life client software. Unfortunately, the steps below are somewhat involved, but they must only be performed once. Furthermore, you’ll gain access to a tremendous amount of interesting content within the Second Life system.
http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/ais/virtualhallucinations/UC Davis-sponsored schizophrenia education building:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sedig/26/45/22
Darfur
Stop the genocide in Sudan.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Better%20World/176/245/21
SL Democide Museum
Welcome to the SL Democide Museum. This is devoted to communicating the extent and scope of world democide (genocide and mass murder), and discussing what can be done about it. Such democide exceeds by several times the combat death toll of all war. The curator is MarkMonet Thor, artist and RW Professor Emeritus of Political Science.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Plush%20Nonprofit%20Commons/128/128/23
Middle Passage Slave Trader
Visit the ship named Rememberance.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/ZoHa%20Islands%20WW/128/128/13
Tear It Down & Virtual Guantanamo
Two virtual representations of Guantanamo Bay prison have been launched, one with the specific goal of encouraging the U.S. government to close the real prison and the other to encourage public discourse. Both projects are engaging examples of virtual advocacy, with one creating a virtual representation of the detention center in the virtual world Second Life and the other, a flash-based web site that has a video game quality to it.
http://www.fundraising123.org/article/tear-it-down-and-virtual-guantanamo-two-examples-virtual-advocacy
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Progressive%20Island/128/128/25
Gone Gitmo Blog
http://gonegitmo.blogspot.com/
First World War Poetry Digital Archive
This immersive experience attempts to demonstrate how effective it can be to expose items from a research project (the First World War Poetry Digital Archive) in its context. You can see items from the collection, hear interviews with veterans, and watch contemporary film footage as you explore the area - a training camp, communication trench, a casualty clearing station, a front-line trench - as well as listen to readings of the poetry.
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/secondlife
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Isola%20Atlantide/164/214/27
Melita Insula
ancient greek roman colony for role play MATURE gladiator fighting, slavery, potential for interesting discoveries.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Frideswide/219/199/646/
In For Life: Doing Time in SL
VERY MATURE
This sim is quite possibly over the top. I did not go in, but i did skim the manual. Only for the truly brave.
Welcome to In For Life prison and correctional system!
In for Life is a prison which is based on an immersive set of role-play rules, the most important one is that someone can only become a prisoner if they are sentenced in the In For Life (IFL) court. In order to end up in the court, they need to be accused of some "crime", disobedience etc. Be aware that the accusation needs to be solid otherwise the appointed IFL judge might let the accused go. If an accused is acquitted then they cannot be accused of the same violation again.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/In%20For%20Life/128/128/49
The Prisoners' Lounge
MATURE
Home of the Prison Roleplayers of SL. A place to compare prison stories and obtain Information about prisons in SL, comparative table, museum displays, noticeboard, greylist information.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Zhora/128/128/45
GLBT Holocaust Memorial Provincetown
Honoring Those Lost to Hate Crimes
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Provincetown/128/191/30
