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=Module 1: Welcome to the Tutorial =

Welcome to the **Second Life Beginners Tutorial**. I am creating this for a couple of reasons.

1] I have been exploring Second Life (SL) for several months with an eye towards it usefulness as a professional development tool. I work in a large district and one of my jobs is to provide professional development to 100+ librarians and library assistants. Getting everyone together in one place happens seldom due to time and cost constraints so I am always looking for new ways to provide training and professional collaboration that does not require subs or getting everyone together.

2] One of the things that keeps coming up is that the steep learning curve creates a huge barrier to new people (Newbies) entering into SL in terms of their being able to find and participate in professional development activities. Something as simple as not knowing how to sit on a chair or how to find the teleport coordinates for an activitiy can cause people to give up on SL. I am hoping that by creating these simple video tutorials, we can overcome that barrier.

3] I am taking a class in online project development so this is a great time for me to work on structuring this to make it as useful and engaging as possible.

**Discovery Exercises**:
 * Task 1 **: Read the @About this Tutorial page. It will cover the structure of the tutorials and give some helpful hints.


 * Task 2 **: If you already have a blog that you can reflect on your progress there. If you don't, now is a good time to start one - find directions here.