K-State Research and Extension is involved in SL™ supporting and building projects for the K-State community, K-State Research and Extension, and eXtension. This area lists resources to support those who are using Second Life® for projects at K-State or eXtension.

The following are help documents from K-State Research and Extension.

It is recommended that all K-State SL™ users take time and use the following document for generation of new avatars in Second Life®.   The new avatar creation how to takes you through the steps of creating an avatar using the new avatar gateway run by New Citizens Institute (NCI).  NCI is one of the larger SL™ in world training organizations.

Creating a new avatar using the NCI/Caledon community gateway (PDF)


Vehicles are useful in training exercises or for making of machinima movies.  Often vehicles are confusing to new users of SL™ though.   This document describes how most vehicles work in SL™.

Driving, Piloting, and Flying Vehicles in SL™ (PDF)


The SL™ Client has many features to support a very elaborate and robust virtual world.   Because of this there are many hints and tips that often pass by the normal SL™ user.   The following document is a list of tips that will help make your stay in SL™ more pleasant and useful.

Tips, Tricks, and Hints for using SL™ (PDF)