Mac's iLife In The Classroom

MacBook's iLife suite can help make some great productions for students in the classroom.  iMovie, iPhoto, and Garageband are very powerful tools and offer some fairly elaborate features that not only make it fun for the user, but can make a well crafted product.  Do NOT let these programs scare you.  Once you learn a few basic steps, you or your students can create a very nice product with minimal involvement.  

Using the iLife suite in the classroom for class projects or a final portfolio of what they learned, not only creates interest and engagement from the student, but allows students to learn about the content in ways that lecture or worksheets can not.

Students can create "movie trailers" as a book report; a handsome photo album of their collected images of 911; create a podcast as if they were reporting live at the Beach of Normandy; use their iTunes library to store important documents or podcasts from iTunesU.  With a little creativity you can do so much more using this collection of media producing software.  Because each of these programs are in one suite and are Apple products, they sync and work with each other.  So if I am creating an iMovie and need some images from iPhoto or some music from iTunes, I can access these right in the iMovie program.

With any of these applications, I consider myself almost-pro if not pro.  I can assist you with creative ideas on how we can use these applications with what you are doing in your classroom.  I would even love to make a class visit and walk your students through some of the basics and advanced features of any of these programs.

Please contact me at any time - nasonb@sad1.org