Your favorite teacher in SL, and why? ;)

I've been taking some of the neat classes in SL as many, and thought a good thread might be, "Who is your favorite teacher in SL, and why?" This might be very helpful for me being new as well as others too.
Many Blessings,,,,,
Trella

Hm... the LSL Wiki taught me a lot. A big thanks to all contributors

As a newb looking for in-world lessons on prim building, wheres the best place to look that hold regular lessons?

I've never been there Loppo, but have you seen the Ivory Tower of Prims?

I have, and its interesting but I need to be shown or talked through prim building. I can do the very basics when it comes to manipulating prims but I need to move on to actually making something.

I've been attending a lot of basic prim building classes, I also have issues sometimes following a website and have found the free ingame lessons with live teachers, to be just wonderful. I'm making all kinds of things I would have thought beyond my ability when I started.

I regularly check the Search - Events - Education section and click to be notified of any upcoming ones that look especially good. After sitting through a couple different sessions taught by different teachers, things just start to "click" a little better for me.

For some reason, having my "avatar" attend classes brings back a lot of my old student days and somehow makes things easier to absorb than if I watch YouTube videos or website guides. I am very excited and thrilled by the in-world classes. Just got done babbling for a half hour to my sweetie-pie how marvelous they are.

When I started, I signed up for just about every building/scripting class I could at TeaZers, University of Mystica (gone now ), and others. For about the first 3 months, if I was online - I was going to classes lol.

Don't do like a lot seem to and only go to classes based on the end-product .... go to everything. In the beginning, the process is far more important than what you are building. Different teachers have different ways of doing things, and you will learn a lot from seeing different perspectives. Not to mention the sheer practice of doing things. Continued use in all those classes will reinforce camera/zoom usage, positioning, shortcuts, etc.

I do wish I could recall some of the best teachers' names ... they put in a lot of work.

I think the Ivory Tower is brilliant - just have patience & follow the turorials in sequence through the whole course & you'll be building some impressive stuff by the finish.

Try joining the in-world Builder's Exchange group.
It is moderated by a bunch of teachers who run daily classes at beginner & intermediate level & promote them through the group IMs (although usually at only 5mins notice so I've never actually been able to attend unfortunately 'cause they always seem to happen when I can't commit to a full hour).
Membership is open & free.
They are a friendly bunch & there's usually someone willing to offer tips on specific problems as you run into them & also to swap textures & tools etc. for specific jobs if they have them.
Just look them up on search or look me up in search & find them in my profile.

Thanks, sounds like excellent advice, just what i need

College of Scripts. i think there is a more formal name, but i'd have to be inworld to get it.

The Ivory Tower is fantastic for learning to create different shapes of prim, but I've always found it lacking in two ways: a) how to use those different prim shapes artistically, and b) how to link together (and possibly overlap) prims to create shapes from the real world. I know that for b) some builders see the methods for creating "organic" shapes as rather closely guarded trade secrets, so I can just about see that, but stil..

Fleche Xeno is my favourite tutor on Secondlife...He's very smart, very funny and kind enough to stick with you until you completely understand everything.

He's a man of many avatar shapes too - very entertaining.

I'm not sure if he still does much teaching around SL but if you see a class he's hosting, you should certainly head over. Brilliant guy!


As for classes whilst on SL I've found the TUI ones the most useful, though with the numbers of people who take the classes, they can be a little difficult to follow at times...

Ivory Tower & Charles Benjamin Center are cool. There's also some build tutorials at Dream Sandbox which are worth taking a look at

Particle lab!

has several excellent tutorials for SL builders...