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MacLearning is a community of educators, technologists, developers and change agents dedicated to transforming learning through innovation. We are interested in the creation and deployment of standards based learning tools, and enhancing sharing and interoperability through open specifications on Mac OS X.

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August 2007

Apple Learning Interchange: Social Networking, Content Collections, and the MacLearning.org Community

August 22, 10 AM PDT

The Apple Learning Interchange is a free social networking and content sharing service for educators hosted by Apple Education. Originally designed in 1999 as a repository for education “exhibits” published by select content providers, the new ALI 2.0 is completely redesigned and re-architected to foster collaboration between community members, social networking across common interests, and content portability with mobile devices. ALI embraces the open exchange and reuse of education content within its community through Creative Commons licensing.

Come hear how you can participate through content publishing, sharing, communication and collaboration within MacLearning.org and throughout ALI. Tune in on Wednesday using the Webcast ID MacLearning and Passcode 224651 to log in to the webcast.

Recent Editions

June 2007

Community Tools for iTunes U

One of the hallmarks of modern “Web 2.0” sites is the availability of web services and APIs that give users the freedom to access sites in new ways, create tools that can perform new tasks, and allow community participation in shaping a web site or application. MacLearning revisits iTunes U and turns the focus on two community built tools that take advantage of the iTunes U web services API.

May 2007

Second Life

April showers bring May flowers, or so the saying goes. Does this anachronism stay true in virtual worlds? MacLearning takes a trip to Second Life and discovers a fantastical place where people meet, eat, buy land and trade goods. Visit secondlife.com to get yourself in the picture, and watch the webcast for more about virtual worlds and learning spaces.

April 2007

Open, Connected, and Social

♪ Wikis and weblogs sitting in a tree. L-I-N-K-I-N-G. First comes trackbacks. Then comes mashups. Then comes blikis in a Flickr album. ♪

MacLearning goes musical on simple tools tuned to harmonious combinations. Discover some of the simple tools that top experts are remixing into new applications while we work on our hits album.