Wearing my SaLamander HUD (top left) but I should get a SLoog HUD as well as per the diagram posted here. sloog is a tool for tagging things in- world. . . and the http://www.sloog.org site has a tag cloud that includes education . . . will search there as well.
posted by Meredith Snookums on Eduisland using a blogHUD : [blogHUD permalink]

Round two of searching in-world to find physics objects. . . and I must have been too tired last night as I  momentarily forgot about the SaLamander project – created with exactly the goal of indexing learning objects in SL (it is an in-world extension of MERLOT). SaLamander is the brain-child of Jonathan Richter at U Oregon – aka Wainbrave Bernal in-world . . . and just about anything he does is worth following, as an aside! Will search the database today, post images of useful objects I find through it and post links on SaLamander in general.

Here is a SlideShare on SaLamander: http://www.slideshare.net/wainbrave/the-salamander-project/
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Last stop for this whirl-wind tour of physics-related site in-world. Makes me think that the manipulative people make should be as well-advertised as the sims themselves. . . when teachers are looking for tools, often they are looking for small things to rez. . . I bet many are out there for physics, but I haven’t found the index to search today. Will look into it tomorrow and log out for the night.
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Nothing to do with science, but a neat map showing you where you and everyone else on an island is.
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Another good map showing how these SL places are linked to RL places. . . in this case US spaceship launch sites.
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More astrophysical machinery . . . or in this case imaging of the earth.
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Woah – some serious equipment here! This diplay explains how each collects measurements and is calibrated.
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Something SL is great for – modelling things there is no way they could get to see in RL up-close. Standing on red earth and viewing the Phoenix Lander. . . and WOAH! A Martian dust-devil just flew by! Wasn’t expecting that! Wish all those bots on Mars the best when those things come around!
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Wasn’t expecting a map of Pasadena, but I bet it is good for business to have people know you really do exist in RL. I’d say this JPL site is pretty good for PR.
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An insland in the build-stage supported by Nasa’s JPL and CalTech.
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