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Clearly iPods have utility in education beyond just second language acquisition, as does iTunes, particularly with respect to managing collections. iPods, iTunes, iPhoto are standard Apple user interfaces (UI) that allow you to manage collections of digital assets. We have been developing similar tools for academic institutions including Segue (collaborative learning system), Concerto (digital assets management), Measure (assessment management), and Crescendo (tracking)…
Obviously the boundaries between these systems need to be porous, need to be integrated into a general framework, the Mac OS for Apple applications. Our collective suite of curricular systems are built with Harmoni, a PHP application framework we are creating that will include implementations of the Open Knowledge Initiative (OKI) open service interface definitions (OSID)…