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=C. Login To Second Life=

After the Second Life Viewer has been installed onto your computer you will see the following Second Life icon on your desktop. Click the icon to launch the viewer and login to Second Life...the viewer may take a few moments to load. Once the viewer loads, you will see the login screen. In the required fields, enter your avatar's First Name, Last Name and enter your password then click the Login button.

An "Avatar" refers to the representation of a human in a virtual environment (Case Western Reserve University, 2005). The term avatar was first made popular by Neal Stephenson in his novel Snow Crash (1992) and is currently used in the virtual world, Second Life, to describe citizens of the 3D digital world.

Once you are logged into Second Life you will start at "Help Island" (if no other starting point was chosen). Help Island only consists of new residents (newbies) and mentors. Mentors are volunteers who help new SL residents and can be spotted by the title above their names (Oh, 2007)

>>Continue to "Help Island"