Here’s the story: I am exploring the dashboard of my SL account (following W?odzimierz‘s idea to write about how to access it and all as suggested here), when I find that one of the tabs on top of the page says “World Map“. Curious about what SL looks like on a map, I click on the link and finally understand what people talk about when they say “SL Grid”. This was what I saw:
Besides having better understanding of how SL places are “spatially distributed”, what caught my attention was that there was something called a “Destination Guide”. I managed to find it by scrolling to the bottom of the sidebar menu and click where it said: “Looking for even more places to visit in Second Life? Check out the Destination Guide page”.
And so I did, and here is what I found:
It is a fantastic resource! The guide is organized into six categories: Learning, Hot Spots, Arts, Music, How To and Business. I browsed through the contents of the Learning Guide, and loved it! Of course, it’s not a complete list of all places, but you can always go back to the World Map and use the search engine to find the SLURL to places you know exist but don’t know where they are exactly.
I also found two fantastic blogs that write reviews of places to visit connected to education: Edumuve and Second Life Insider. To make the story short, after all these discoveries, I didn’t want to lose the information so I bookmarked these sites so I could go back to the links and visit these places throughout the year. But thenI thought “Hey, why not share these discoveries?” And so I mashed all three feeds together and made them public through Google Reader, and here it is! A feed for all the places I’ve found so far, that I will continue to update with any other destinations I come across and tag. To get the feed, click here, and enjoy! Please comment if you’ve visited any of these places and have any recommendations.
