SL Registration & Orientation
Linden Lab (the makers of Second Life) lets people sign up for SL on websites created by others. I helped create some SL registration websites:
If you register for SL at one of those websites, you'll get an SL account and download the SL viewer software. When you run the viewer, your avatar will appear at a special "orientation experience" (place) depending on the website where you registered. If you registered at the Second Health website, your avatar will appear on an island in the sim named UK Virtual Hospital. There you will follow a path and read signs along the way to learn how to use Second Life. I terraformed that sim, planted the plants, built the path, and made most of the signs.
If you registered at the SciLands website, your avatar will appear on an island in the sim named SciLands. That island also has a path with signs along the way to explain the basics of SL. I also made that orientation experience.
