Handheld Learning - learning with mobile and ubiquitous technologies

I wanted to learn to speak french and a gd friend of mine suggested SL.  Whats SL??

http://secondlife.com/whatis/
------------This is there blurb ---------------------------------------------------------
Second Life is an exciting new venue for collaboration, training, distance learning, new media studies and marketing.

Hold a virtual meeting with your sales managers located in Europe and Asia. You can present the new sales initiatives and discuss them with your team real-time.

Build a new world that allows Second Life residents to interact with your products or services and enables you to test out new designs and concepts before introducing them to the real world. Or perhaps you have a product that you would like to sell in Second Life. Plan an event to promote your product: a concert, a class, a famous speaker, a party, a contest.

Create an innovative learning environment for students and faculty. Explore new tools and techniques for information and scientific visualization. Design collaborative meeting spaces and interact with colleagues from across the globe. Whether you're thinking of enriching an existing curriculum or experimenting with completely new educational goals, Second Life is a platform for innovation.

With Second Life, you are only limited by your imagination.

Second Life is a 3D platform that can be used for:

    * Presenting, promoting, and selling content to a broad online audience
    * Collaborating and communicating in real time between multiple participants
    * Researching new concepts/products
    * Training and educating in virtual classrooms


eductaion blurb --------------------------------------
Second Life provides a unique and flexible environment for educators interested in distance learning, computer supported cooperative work, simulation, new media studies, and corporate training.

Second Life provides an opportunity to use simulation in a safe environment to enhance experiential learning, allowing individuals to practice skills, try new ideas, and learn from their mistakes. The ability to prepare for similar real-world experiences by using Second Life as a simulation has unlimited potential!

Students and Educators can work together in Second Life from anywhere in the world as part of a globally networked virtual classroom environment. Using Second Life as a supplement to traditional classroom environments also provides new opportunities for enriching an existing curriculum. Many universities and educational institutions are already using Second Life,

-Check out the huge number of instituations using it.------------------------------------------
 UNIVERSITIES, COLLEGES & SCHOOLS

Aarhus Business College: Aarhus, Denmark
http://www.aabc.dk
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Kirkby/119/26/57

Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland
http://www.abo.fi
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Eduisland%20II/142/218/22/

Anglia Ruskin University
at Cambridge and Chelmsford, UK
http://www.anglia.ac.uk

Arcada University of Applied Sciences: 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
http://audiocourses.pbwiki.com/

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
Entirely online in SL and Moodle on Belle Isle
Birdie Newborn, Dean (birdie.newborn@gmail.com)
spoonsors Beach Teacher Collective for independent educators
http://www.beachcollege.net

Bentley College - Department of Natural and Applied Sciences: Waltham, MA
http://www.bentley.edu/sciences/

Boise State University, Dept. of EdTech
Supporting EDTECH Island in SL
http://edtech.boisestate.edu

Bowling Green State University
http://www.bgsu.edu/
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Bowling%20Green%20State/113/171/

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

Buena Vista University Storm Lake, IA
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Buena%20Vista/102/80/24

Buffalo State College Buffalo, NY
http://www.buffalostate.edu/

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

Chapman University: Orange, CA
http://www.chapman.edu

College of Humanities and Social Sciences at
Montclair State University: Montclair, NJ
http://chss.montclair.edu

Columbia College Chicago: Chicago, IL
http://www.colum.edu

Columbia University: New York, NY
http://www.tc.columbia.edu

Devry University: Oakbrook, IL
http://www.devry.edu

Duke University: Durham, NC
http://www.duke.edu

Drexel University: Philadelphia, PA
http://www.drexel.edu http://slurl.com/secondlife/Drexel/

Dyersburg State Community College: Dyersburg, TN
http://www.dscc.edu

Elon University: Elon, NC
http://www.elon.edu

Empire State College, SUNY: Many locations across NY state and beyond.
http://www.esc.edu

ENST Bretagne : Telecom Bretagne France
http://www.enst-bretagne.fr
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Telecom%20Bretagne/176/187/38

Finger Lakes Community College: Canandaigua, NY
http://www.flcc.edu

Fontys University of Applied Sciences: Netherlands
http://www.fontys.nl
http://www.fontys.nl/pth/projecten
http://slurl.com/secondlife/fontys/128/110/30

Fullerton College: Fullerton, CA
http://www.fullcoll.edu

Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture University of Houston: Houston, TX
http://www.arch.uh.edu

Glendale Community College Glendale AZ
http://gc.maricopa.edu
http://slurl.com/secondlife/GCCAz/19/222/22/

goFluent, Global solutions for learning english Anytime Anywhere :
http://www.gofluent.com
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Education%20Island/107/193/29/?x=640&y=480&img=http%3A//www.ahg.com/slmovies/gofluent/home.jpg&title=goFluent%20Global%20Solutions%20for%20learning%20english%20Anytime%20Anywhere

Harvard University: Cambridge, Mass.
http://www.harvard.edu
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Berkman/105/74/35

Helicon Opleidingen "Netherlands, land based studies at 11 colleges"
http://www.helicon.nl/content.jsp?objectid=7631
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Helicon%20Campus/124/114/23

Huddersfield University, West Yorkshire, UK
http://eduspaces.net/secondlife/weblog/
http://secondlifeproject.pbwiki.com/

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

Iowa State University: Ames, IA
http://www.iastate.edu/

University of Toulon, Ingemedia institut, I3m Lab: Toulon, France
http://ingemedia.org/

Ithaca College - Roy H. Park School of Communication
http://www.ithaca.edu/rhp

Johnson & Wales University: Providence, RI & 5 Western States
http://www.jwu.edu

Kalamazoo Valley Community College: Kalamazoo, MI
http://www.kvcc.edu

Lancaster University: Lancaster, UK
http://www.lancs.ac.uk

Lazarski School of Commerce and Law. Warsaw, Poland
http://www.lazarski.pl

Leeds College of Art and Design: West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
http://www.leeds-art.ac.uk
http://slurl.com/secondlife/the%20collective/128/128/100
http://ddmcollective.blogspot.com

Leeds Metropolitan University: West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
http://www.leedsmet.ac.uk

Lehigh Carbon Community College: Schnecksville, PA
http://collegeenglish.wikispaces.com

Loyalist College: Belleville, ON, Canada
http://www.loyalistcollege.com

Mayville State University: Mayville, ND
http://www.mayvillestate.edu/

Minneapolis College of Art and Design: Minneapolis, MN
http://www.mcad.edu

Minnesota State Colleges and Universities:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/MNSCU/128/128/0
http://www.mnscu.edu

Mohawk College: Hamilton, ON, CA
http://www.mohawkcollege.ca/

Monroe College: Bronx, New York
http://www.monroecollege.edu/

Montana State University: Bozeman, Montana
http://www.montana.edu/

Murray State University: In RL | In SL

Nanyang Polytechnic: Singapore
http://www.nyp.edu.sg
http://virtual-dio.com/current.html#h1-left

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

Newcastle University Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
http://www.ncl.ac.uk

Northern Illinois University: DeKalb, IL
http://www.niu.edu
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Glidden/144/176/33

Ohio University: Athens, OH
http://slurl.com/secondlife/ohio%20university/20/36/24/
Ohio University Second Life Campus Video

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 Cetlment island
http://www.schome.ac.uk

Oregon State University: Corvallis, OR
http://www.oregonstate.edu

Otis College of Art and Design: Los Angeles, CA
http://www.otis.edu

Oxford University: Oxford, UK
http://www.ox.ac.uk/

Pellissippi State Technical Community College: Knoxville, TN
http://www.pstcc.edu/

Pennsylvania State University: (Various towns), PA
http://www.psu.edu
PSU College of IST
http://ist.psu.edu/secondlife
http://slurl.com/secondlife/istania

Pepperdine University: Malibu, CA
http://www.pepperdine.edu

Pforzheim University: Pforzheim, Germany http://www.hs-pforzheim.de

Platt (Media Arts) College San Diego: San Diego, CA
LEARN [3D Animation • Digital Video Production • Graphic Design • Web Design] http://www.platt.edu/index03.htm

Princeton University:
Princeton, NJ
(142, 148, 24) Group membership required to access island.
http://etc.princeton.edu/sl

Queensland University Of Technology
Brisbane, Australia
http://qut.edu.au

Rheinische Fachhochschule Köln:
Köln, Germany
http://www.rfh-koeln.de/de/index.php
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Pixel%20Expo%20II/189/115/29


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

Savannah College of Art & Design: Savannah, GA; Atlanta, GA; Lacoste, France
http://www.scad.edu/

Seton Hall University: South Orange, NJ
http://tltc.shu.edu/virtualworlds/

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

St. Thomas University: Miami Gardens, FL
http://www.stu.edu

Swinburne University of Technology: Melbourne, Australia
http://www.swin.edu.au

SUNY Empire State College: Saratoga Springs, NY
http://www.esc.edu

SUNY College at Oneonta Oneonta, NY
http://www.oneonta.edu

Temple University: Philadelphia, PA
http://www.temple.edu

Texas State Technical College: Waco, Harlingen, Marshal, West Texas
http://www.tstc.edu

Texas State University: San Marcos, Texas
http://www.txstate.edu

Texas Wesleyan University: Fort Worth, Texas
http://www.txwes.edu/
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Immaculate/212/208/21

The Bay School of San Francisco: San Francisco, CA
http://www.bayschoolsf.org

Thomas Jefferson University: Philadelphia, PA
http://www.jefferson.edu

Thompson Rivers University: Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
http://www.tru.ca/home.html
Mapping CURA — a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Grant
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Klaw/179/10/24/

Towson University: Towson, MD
http://www.towson.edu

Trinity University: San Antonio, Texas
http://www.trinity.edu

University College of South Denmark Aabenraa, Denmark
http://www.cfu.dk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=106&Itemid=152

University of Advancing Technology Tempe, AZ
http://uat.edu

University of Alaska Anchorage College of Education Anchorage, Alaska
http://coe.uaa.alaska.edu

University of Alaska Fairbanks Center for Distance Education Fairbanks, Alaska
http://www.distance.uaf.edu

University of Aveiro (Universidade de Aveiro) Aveiro, Portugal
http://www.ua.pt/
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Universidade%20de%20Aveiro/118/115/38

University of Bedfordshire Luton & Bedford, UK
http://www.beds.ac.uk

University of California Berkeley
http://okapi.berkeley.edu

University of Cincinnati: Cincinnati, OH
University website: http://www.uc.edu
University of Cincinnati Second Life Wiki: http://homepages.uc.edu/secondlife
SLurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/EduIsland/173/198/22/
Contact: Fleep Tuque - fleep.tuque@gmail.com

University of Colorado at Denver Medical Center: Denver, CO
http://www.cudenver.edu

University of Connecticut: Hartford, CT
http://www.uconn.edu

University of Dayton School of Law: Dayton, OH
http://law.udayton.edu/home

University of Derby: Derby, UK
http://www.mail.derby.ac.uk

University of Edinburgh: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
http://www.ed.ac.uk http://www.education.ed.ac.uk/e-learning

University of Florida: Gainesville, FL
http://www.ufl.edu

University of Hawaii at Manoa School of Communications: Honolulu, HI
http://www.communications.hawaii.edu

University of Kansas Medical Center: Kansas City, KS
http://www.kumc.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 New Orleans New Orleans, Louisiana
http://www.uno.edu

University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon
http://www.uoregon.edu

University of Paisley: Paisley, Scotland, UK
http://www.paisley.ac.uk

University of Portsmouth: Portsmouth, UK
http://www.port.ac.uk
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Teaching%202/32/60/29


University of Southern California: Los Angeles, CA
http://www.usc.edu

University of Southern Queensland: Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
http://www.usq.edu.au
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Terra%20incognita/152/96/33

University of Southern Denmark (Syddansk Universitet): Odense, Kolding, Esbjerg, Sønderborg, Slagelse, København, DK
http://www.sdu.dk/indexE.html

University of Surrey: Guildford, UK
http://www.surrey.ac.uk

University of Sydney: Sydney, Australia
http://www.usyd.edu.au

University of Tennessee, College of Medicine: Knoxville, Tenn.
http://www.utk.edu

University of Texas at Austin: Austin, Texas
http://www.utexas.edu

University of Texas at Dallas: Richardson, Texas
http://www.utdallas.edu
http://slurl.com/secondlife/UTD%20SOM/141/70/22/
http://slurl.com/secondlife/UTD%20ArtTech%20Island/139/43/90/
http://slurl.com/secondlife/UTD%20Accessibility/128/128/101/

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.washington.edu

University School (k-12): Hunting Valley, OH
http://www.us.edu

Vassar College: Poughkeepsie, NY
http://www.vassar.edu
http://slurl.com/secondlife/vassar/109/114/27

Virginia Tech: Blacksburg, Virginia
http://www.vt.edu | School of Education

If you use Twitter, you may like to know about Twitter Box which allows you to send tweets and receive your twitter stream when you're in Second Life.

http://ordinalmalaprop.com/twitter/

So both my avatar and I microblog to the same feed. :-)

I'm interested in hearing of any other widgets/gadgets/techs that allow for In- and Out-of- World communication?

Kathy/Goldfinch

Many lost evenings and blue air.