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Il vocabolo della settimana: Avatar

Nella religione, mitologia e teologia induista, avatar indica l’assunzione di un corpo fisico da parte di Dio, o di uno dei Suoi aspetti.
In molte ambientazioni, saghe e giochi del filone fantasy, avatar ha “ereditato” il significato originale, indicando l’incarnazione fisica di esseri celesti o trascendentali.
Nella realtà virtuale come nei videogiochi (soprattutto negli RPG, i giochi di ruolo), avatar identifica il personaggio controllato dal giocatore o una immagine che lo identifica

L’ avatar è quindi una rappresentazione grafica di qualcuno all’ interno di Second Life, non è altro che la tua persona nel mondo virtuale.

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Creare un avatar

Il significato letterale della parola “Avatar”

Beautiful Avatar, i più belli di Second Life

Personalizzare l’avatar

EmoterHUD – decine di espressioni facciali con facilità

Alcune immagini interessanti trovate su Flickr

Elenco semi-completo delle università e delle scuole presenti in Second Life

• Arcada University of Technology: Helsingfors, Finland
  http://www.arcada.fi
• The Art Institute of California-San Diego San Diego, CA
  http://www.artinstitutes.edu/sandiego
• The Art Institute of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA
  http://www.artinstitutes.edu/pittsburgh/index.asp
• Audiocourses Music Production School: London, United Kingdom
  http://www.audiocourses.com
  http://slurl.com/secondlife/Audio/33/127/31
• Australian Film TV and Radio School: Sydney, Australia
  http://www.lamp.edu.au | http://aftrs.edu.au
  http://slurl.com/secondlife/Esperance/66/136/31
• Ball State University: Muncie, IN
  http://www.bsu.edu
• The Bay School of San Francisco: San Francisco, CA
  http://www.bayschoolsf.org
• Beach College: Santa Barbara, CA
  http://www.beachcollege.net
• Bentley College – Department of Natural and Applied Sciences: Waltham, MA
  http://www.bentley.edu/sciences/
• Bradley University, Peoria, IL– Multimedia Program via NMC and Library on Info Island
  http://www.bradley.edu
  http://slane.bradley.edu/com/faculty/lamoureux/website2/slstuff.html
• Bromley College of Further and Higher Education: Greater London, United Kingdom
  http://www.bromley.ac.uk
  http://slurl.com/secondlife/Daydream%20SE%20Islands/206/40
• California State University – Pomona: Pomona, CA
  http://www.csupomona.edu
• Central Missouri State University: Warrensburg, Missouri
  http://www.cmsu.edu
• Central Piedmont Community College – Futures Institute: Charlotte, North Carolina
  http://www.cpcc.edu
• Colorado Mountain College: Glendwood Springs, CO
  http://www.coloradomtn.edu
• Columbia University: New York, NY
  http://www.tc.columbia.edu
• Dyersburg State Community College: Dyersburg, TN
  http://www.dscc.edu
• Elon University: Elon, NC
  http://www.elon.edu
• Fullerton College: Fullerton, CA
  http://www.fullcoll.edu
• Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture University of Houston: Houston, TX
  http://www.arch.uh.edu
• Harvard University: Cambridge, Mass.
  http://www.harvard.edu
  http://slurl.com/secondlife/Berkman/105/74/35
• Idaho State University: Pocatello, Idaho.
  http://www.isu.edu/irh
• Illinois State University: Normal, IL
  http://www.ilstu.edu
• Indiana University: Bloomington, IN
  http://www.indiana.edu
• Insead http://www.insead.com http://slurl.com/secondlife/Freswick/234/135/45
• Johnson & Wales University: Providence, RI & 5 Western States
  http://www.jwu.edu
• Kalamazoo Valley Community College: Kalamazoo, MI
  http://www.kvcc.edu
• Leeds College of Art and Design: West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
  http://www.leeds-art.ac.uk
• Lehigh Carbon Community College: Schnecksville, PA
  http://collegeenglish.wikispaces.com
• Loyalist College: Belleville, ON, Canada
  http://www.loyalistcollege.com
• Minneapolis College of Art and Design: Minneapolis, MN
  http://www.mcad.edu
• Minnesota State Colleges and Universities:
  http://www.mnscu.edu
• Montana State University: Bozeman, Montana
  http://www.montana.edu/
• Nanyang Polytechnic: Singapore
  http://www.nyp.edu.sg
  http://virtual-dio.com/nyp/it1925
• Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology: Nelson, New Zealand
  http://www.nmit.ac.nz
• New York University – McGhee Division: New York, NY
  http://www.nyu.edu
  http://www.scps.nyu.edu/dcom
  http://slurl.com/secondlife/Campus/124/180/32
• North Carolina State University: Raleigh, NC
  http://www.ncsu.edu
• Northern Illinois University: DeKalb, IL
  http://www.niu.edu
  http://slurl.com/secondlife/Glidden/144/176/33
• Ohio State University: Columbus, OH
  http://www.osu.edu
• Oklahoma City University: Oklahoma City, OK
  http://www.okcu.edu
• The Open University: Milton Keynes, UK
  http://www.open.ac.uk
• Oregon State University: Corvallis, OR
  http://www.oregonstate.edu
• Otis College of Art and Design Los Angeles, CA
  http://www.otis.edu
• Pellissippi State Technical Community College: Knoxville, TN
  http://www.pstcc.edu/
• Pennsylvania State University: (Various towns), PA
  http://www.psu.edu
• Pepperdine Universtiy: Malibu, CA
  http://www.pepperdine.edu
• San Diego State University: San Diego, Calif.
  http://www.sdsu.edu
  http://slurl.com/secondlife/Meadowbrook/244/59/34
• San Francisco State University: San Francisco, CA
  http://www.sfsu.edu
• Sheffield Hallam University: Sheffield, UK
  http://www.shu.ac.uk
  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wordpress/
• Sogang University: Seoul, Korea
  http://www.sogang.ac.kr
• Stanford University: Palo Alto, CA
  http://www.stanford.edu
  http://slurl.com/secondlife/Esperance/66/136/31
• SUNY Empire State College: Saratoga Springs, NY
  http://www.esc.edu
• Temple University: Philadelphia, PA
  http://www.temple.edu
• Texas State University: San Marcos, Texas
  http://www.txstate.edu
• The Bay School of San Francisco: San Francisco, CA
  http://www.bayschoolsf.org
• Thomas Jefferson University: Philadelphia, PA
  http://www.jefferson.edu
• Trinity University: San Antonio, Texas
  http://www.trinity.edu
• University of Cincinnati: Cincinnati, OH
  http://www.uc.edu
• University of Colorado at Denver Medical Center: Denver, CO
  http://www.cudenver.edu
• University of Connecticut: Hartford, CT
  http://www.uconn.edu
• University of Derby: Derby, UK
  http://www.mail.derby.ac.uk
• University of Florida: Gainesville, FL
  http://www.ufl.edu
• University of Massachusetts: North Dartmouth, MA
  http://www.umassd.edu
• University of Minnesota, School of Physics and Astronomy: Minneapolis, MN
  http://www.physics.umn.edu
• University of Missouri – Kansas City: Kansas City, Missouri
  http://www.umkc.edu
• University of Nevada, Reno: Reno, NV
  http://www.unr.nevada.edu
• University of Paisley: Paisley, Scotland, UK
  http://www.paisley.ac.uk
• University of Southern California: Los Angeles, CA
  http://www.usc.edu
• University of Surrey: Guildford, UK
  http://www.surrey.ac.uk
• University of Tennessee, College of Medicine: Knoxville, Tenn.
  http://www.utk.edu
• University of Texas at Dallas: Richardson, Texas
  http://www.utdallas.edu
• University of Texas Medical Branch: Galveston, Texas
  http://www.utmb.edu
• University of Wales, Newport: Newport, Wales, UK
  http://www.newport.ac.uk
• University of Washington: Seattle, WA
  http://www.u.washington.edu
• University School (k-12): Hunting Valley, OH
  http://www.us.edu
• Virginia Tech: Blacksburg, Virginia
• http://www.vt.edu