There are a mixture of resources available for those who are new to Second Life and want to hit the ground running that vary from training videos, through to tips and interactive slideshows. The difficult part is selecting those are well made and useful.
This is a useful if slightly elongated tutorial on the simple way to stream your own audio into Second Life using the voice/audio functionality provided in-world. This is for Windows users and demonstrates a stream from Apple iTunes.
The Windlight Second Life viewer renders beautifully but it can be a real struggle to get good performance from the client such that Second Life does not slow to a painful crawl. This post from Torley Linden is excellent for helping demystify the new graphics tab. The additional diagnostic tools, 'lag meter' and 'statistics', that come with the Windlight viewer make adjusting settings a breeze. There are visual indicators for client, network or server issues, and allowing one to actually monitor FPS in real-time makes the impact of each change in the graphics settings tab visible on the frame rate and easy to monitor.
One of the few examples, currently, of an in-world assessment tool. This particular tool is a MCQ scripted object that links to a managed learning system (Moodle is a suggested environment) that acts as a back-end for saving and collating the avatar name, time spent on question and test results.
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