Bring the sights and sounds that excite and inspire your students into the classroom effortlessly with iLife ’06—a highly integrated software suite that comes on every new Mac. iLife features the latest versions of Apple’s award-winning iMovie HD, iPhoto, iDVD, GarageBand, and the new iWeb.

With iLife, students can express themselves with images, movies, music and other audio, and text. iLife offers a flexible set of learning tools that can help students demonstrate their individual strengths— empowering them as creators of content, rather than just consumers.

Teachers across the country are using iLife to enliven lessons, meet instructional standards, and guide their students toward more productive futures. Whether students are making visual records of science experiments, producing historical documentaries, creating digital stories, or recording foreign language podcasts, with iLife, every subject comes to life.

Digital tools for digital kids
Today’s students learn in different ways than previous generations, and so require a different set of learning tools. iLife lets students learn in the multisensory mode they need to process information and express themselves using the media of their time.

Unleash students’ creative expression
With the iLife suite, Apple provides all the tools that students need to create and share compelling digital media projects. Students can create poetry photo books, scientific documentaries, blogs, original music, art portfolios, and more. With iLife, there’s no limit to what they can create.

Ignite student achievement
Research shows that students learn better and master basic skills in less time when they are engaged in learning. Digital projects are highly motivating for students, and since they can easily be shared, students are inclined to spend more time on task and revise their work to ensure that it’s just right.

While working on digital projects, students hone important skills such as researching, reading, writing, and speaking. They also build higher order thinking skills, including problem solving, collaboration, and the ability to gather and analyze data.

Keep the focus on learning
iLife applications are unmatched in their combination of ease of use and powerful features. iLife applications all share a similar interface and are designed to work together. Students can effortlessly import their GarageBand creations into iWeb or instantly add images from iPhoto into their iMovie HD project.

Facilitate collaboration and project-based learning
With so many opportunities for different types of creative expression, iLife provides the perfect way to support project-based learning in the classroom. Digital media projects lend themselves to students working in groups, with roles divided based on interests and skills.

iLife ’06—the best digital media tools for learning

iPhoto makes it easy to download, organize, edit, and share digital photos. Students can create field trip slideshows, webpages with photos of their artwork, photo books, calendars, greeting cards, and more. They can also store and organize photos for use in their digital movies.

With GarageBand, students can perform, record, and create their own music and other audio. They can easily create original music by combining a series of pre-recorded musical performances. Or, they can plug in a guitar, keyboard, or microphone and record their own music. Students can also use GarageBand to record podcasts and then add images, jingles, and special effects. They can use their GarageBand compositions as soundtracks for their slideshows, movies, and DVD projects and publish their podcasts on webpages with iWeb and a .Mac account.

With iMovie HD, students can easily create movie projects that include digital video, photos, and music, as well as narration and text. Students can use iMovie HD to create video science reports, their own short films, or documentaries about current events. Teachers can use iMovie HD to share best practices with their peers.

With iDVD, students can readily produce impressive DVDs to store and share their digital projects, document their learning, or present a class movie, complete with menus and chapters. And because DVD discs hold so much information, teachers can store several digital media projects on one DVD.

iWeb makes it easy for students to make terrific-looking websites and blogs that can include movies created with iMovie HD, podcasts created with GarageBand, images from their iPhoto library, and more. They can then instantly publish their websites on the Internet with a .Mac account. Students can use websites produced with iWeb to showcase their documentary films, to display their artwork, or to report on school events. Teachers can use iWeb websites to share class projects with students’ families and with the school community.