Apple Learning Interchange

The new Apple Learning Interchange (ALI) is a set of free resources for educators that provides a single access point to find media and ideas for classroom activities produced by their peers, by Apple, and by guest content providers like Ball State University and The National Park Foundation.

Educators can now connect with social networking tools that facilitate collaboration with each other through simple searching, messaging, iChat and collaborative publication tools. Additionally any member can submit projects as simple as classroom snapshots or as complex as multi-page abstracts for assessment, enhancement, and peer review.

The Apple Learning Interchange contains items of interest to both K-12 and Higher Education members. You can use the popup menu on the front page of the site to choose whether you are interested in K-12, Higher Education, or both. Once made this choice will affect your experience of the site, by filtering out non-relevant content from general browsing and searching. You can change this setting at any time via the channel menu on the front page of the site.

The Apple Learning Interchange:

Provides a beautiful and easy-to-use interface for browsing, searching, and rating everything from multi-page lesson ideas to simple classroom snapshots.

Enables educators to connect with each other around personal, professional, geographical, or interest-based characteristics using internal messaging systems, public conversations and iChat integration

Allows educators to build and submit their own projects for assessment, enhancement, and peer review using simple but powerful integration with “iLife” and other authoring applications

User-configurable profile and preference pages allow educators to quickly find, access and/or share the kind of classroom content they're interested in

Using the Apple Learning Interchange

The Apple Learning Interchange is designed to work well with all modern standards-compliant browsers. Cookies must be enabled in your browser for login and many other site functions to work.

Much of the Interchange's content exists in the form of media files. Some of these media files require appropriate browser plug-ins for viewing. If you have a Macintosh computer running Mac OS X, simply make sure you keep it up to date with Software Update and you will always be to view the Apple Learning Interchange's content.

I use, and recommend, many ALI media files often, both at my school, and to Full Sail students in my EMDT classes. The above document explains much of the ALI available to many educators throughout the world. I have also published here as well.

Apple. (2009). About the apple learning interchange. Retrieved November 24, 2009, from http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/story.php?itemID=9402