To be successful and engaged in learning, digital students need a different set of learning tools. Apple is dedicated to providing the best tools to help students express themselves in the ways that are as natural to them as breathing.
Apple’s Education vision is to help students reach beyond their perceived potential to discover their own special genius. Apple makes products that engage students and help them learn in the multisensory mode they require to process information and to build 21st century skills.
Since multiple media input is essential to this digital generation's learning, the iLife ’06 applications are the perfect solutions for students. iLife applications are a breeze to learn and highly integrated, so it’s easy for students to create dynamic and multimedia-rich projects.
With iMovie HD, students are empowered to create digital stories and video documentaries that include digital video, photos and music, as well as their own narration and text.
With iPhoto, they can easily store organise and edit digital photos and then share them as beautiful photo books, customised slideshows set to music, on web pages and more.
With iWeb, it’s simple for students to produce websites and blogs with movies, podcasts, photos and more. They can then publish their websites on the Internet with a .Mac* account.
With
GarageBand, students
can perform, record and create their own music and podcasts and
even display real-time music notation. They can use
their original music as soundtracks for their digital
projects.
With iDVD, they can easily make their own impressive DVDs to store and share their digital projects, create their portfolios or present a class movie, complete with menus and chapters.
Additional tools for sharing knowledge
The iWork ’06 applications offer
two exciting tools for students to create, present and publish
their work. With Keynote, students
can readily make cinema-quality presentations using a choice
of themes and high-quality effects. Pages—Apple’s streamlined yet powerful word processor—allows
students to choose from over 60 Apple-designed templates
to easily produce everything from simple book reports to newsletters
and complex research reports. iWork ’06 includes a built-in
Media Browser to assure seamless integration with iTunes and iLife ’06 applications.
Anytime, anywhere learning
Students are multitaskers who are connected and communicating at all times and from anywhere. Mobile computing solutions—including the iBook—fit digital students nonstop needs and allow learning to be untethered from the wall, giving them the opportunity to create, express and excel anytime, anywhere.
Advanced digital media tools Final Cut Express HD offers your advanced digital media students the ability to perform professional-level digital video editing, including high-definition video (HDV) capability. This robust solution provides advanced editing tools, compositing and real-time effects for full-featured DV editing and comes with full versions of LiveType for adding animated text effects and Soundtrack for creating custom soundtracks.
*The .Mac service is available to persons age 13 and older. Annual membership fee and Internet access required. Terms and conditions apply.
See what students can create with Apple’s digital tools. Students in North Dakota interviewed veterans and transformed their stories into powerful documentaries. To see more iLife lesson starters, visit iLife for the classroom.
Kenneth Holvig Computer Teacher, Scarsdale Public Schools, Scarsdale, NY See what other educators have to say about using digital tools in the classroom.
Apple’s Education vision is to help students reach beyond their perceived potential to discover their own special genius. Apple makes products that engage students and help them learn in the multisensory mode they require to process information and to build 21st century skills.
