iMovie in Education
Bring learning to life
iMovie is a powerful and highly engaging tool for students to share their knowledge and express themselves in the form of digital movies. Part of the new iLife ’08 suite, iMovie has been reinvented making it easier to create better movies, faster.
For example, students can use iMovie to create video reports to demonstrate abstract science concepts, documentaries to deepen their understanding of social issues or a video podcast on classroom activities. Their iMovie projects can include digital video, photos, music and even voice narration.
A powerful way to learn
iMovie provides an opportunity for students with multiple learning styles to succeed and to demonstrate their individual strengths. Students who sometimes struggle with conventional school projects, such as writing research reports or creating outlines, find that moviemaking helps them to overcome these difficulties.
Writing scripts, creating storyboards and expressing opinions are often a breeze when students know that their end project will be a movie to share with a real audience. But most of all, making digital movies is engaging and enjoyable for students and helps to motivate them to do their best work.
The easiest way to make digital movies
The all-new iMovie ’08 is so simple to use, students can be up and running in a matter of minutes. Video footage is imported with just one click and is automatically organised in an easy-to-browse library.
To put a movie together, students simply drag clips from their library to the project area, then add polish with photos, music, titles and transitions. Editing a clip couldn’t be easier — it’s just like editing text in a word processor. They simply select the part they want and then drag it to the project area. They can even use GarageBand — also part of the iLife ’08 suite — to create an original score for their movie, giving them even more opportunity to showcase their creativity.
Students can share their movies just as easily. With only a few steps, they can burn their movies to a DVD using iDVD, add them to a website created with iWeb, include them in any of their iWork ’08 projects, send them to iTunes to view on an iPod or Apple TV or even publish them on YouTube.
