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Slide2Learn is a not-for-profit organisation run by educators from Australia's four east-coast states, all with a common focus on implementing mobile learning in the K-12 education sector. The major focus of the group is on the use of the iPod touch for educational purposes.

Purpose
The group's purpose is to provide a worldwide communication network for educational users of the iPod touch, or those interested in this field.

It aims to provide professional learning opportunities for educators in the implementation and use of the iPod touch for educational goals.

It also aims to provide access to publications and online repositories for information to assist schools and teachers to implement this new learning technology into their schools.

History
The Slide2Learn group was formally conceived in Janurary, 2010 by Louise Duncan in Shepparton, Australia. Invitations were sent via Twitter to six other Australian educators, all of whom are involved in the use of iPod touches in classrooms: Deon Scanlon, Jonathan Nalder, Megan Iemma, Jenny Ashby, Kate Maccoll and Stacey Kelly.

The foundation members continued to communicate via Twitter, with the goal of organising an annual conference and worldwide network of educators, until their first face-to-face meeting in Shepparton, in late June, 2010.

Events
The foundation members organised the world's first educational event focusing solely on the use of the iPod touch (as well as iPhone and iPad) in the school setting. There have been numerous events and organisations that deal with mobile learning, but none that have dealt solely with the implementation and educational benefits of using the iPod touch in K-12 education.

The inaugural event saw around 120 attendees, from across Australia and Singapore, converge upon Shepparton High School on the 1st and 2nd July, 2010, for a series of keynote addresses, online presentations, and workshops, with the organisation's online network surpassing 200 members in mid-July, 2010.