MacLearning
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MacLearning is a community of professional educators, technologists, developers and change agents dedicated to transforming learning through innovation. As a group, we are concerned with the creation and deployment of standards based learning tools, and enhancing sharing and interoperability using open specifications and standards on Mac OS X.
April 2007
Open, Connected, and Social
D'Arcy Norman, Brian Lamb, Alan Levine, and Jim Groom discuss ways of combining simple and disparate web tools into connected systems.
Small Pieces
Loosely Joined
- April Trying Pipes as a proto-Eduglu platform
Yahoo! Pipes is a web application that can combine and manipulate web feeds in a graphical interface resembling Quartz Composer. In this blog posting, D'Arcy Norman talks about his first attempt at using Pipes to aggregate 5 individual web feeds.
MacLearning Webcasts (RSS)
- 03.28 iTunes U Integration on Campus
- 02.28 Collanos
- 01.24 Pachyderm
- 11.30 The New Apple Xserve
- 10.25 Lectopia: An Enterprise-Grade Approach to Lecture Capture and Distribution
Find more webcasts at MacLearning on iTunes U.
Recent Editions
March 2007
iTunes U Integration on Campus
iTunes U offers an easy and powerful way to manage and distribute audio and video content to students, faculty, and staff. MacLearning explores some of the challenges in deploying iTunes U on campuses including bridging between iTunes U to authentication systems, connecting to learning management systems, and managing users and access control.
February 2007
Think Out of the Inbox
Have you ever tried (unsuccessfully) to set up a online environment to collaborate with your peers in team projects? Collanos Workplace demonstrates that sharing documents, chatting with your buddies, and keeping tabs on project goals can be as easy as P-2-P, err, 1-2-3. MacLearning finds out how Collanos Workplace is being used today and what it has to offer users on all platforms.
January 2007
Pachyderm
The proud Pachydermata family may consist of thick skinned animals, but you can't judge a book by its cover. This Pachyderm roams wild on the internet, offering an easy way to create Flash-based presentations with text, audio, and video content. MacLearning takes a look at the origins of Pachyderm, how people can interact with it, and its outlook on life.
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