Create the kind of learning environment that inspires creativity in your students. With Apple software, you can easily make videos, podcasts, music, and interactive presentations that engage students in ways the printed page can’t. You can assign digital media projects that will inspire them both inside and outside the classroom. Your students can start participating and collaborating more. They can sharpen their ability to organize information, think critically, and write creatively. And maybe most important, they can learn how to communicate their ideas clearly through the most compelling media — a must-have skill in higher education and in the workplace.
The creative process has never been so painless.
Apple brings the full potential of technology to learning because the technology doesn’t get in the way. Never before has it been this easy to make professional-quality documentaries, powerful presentations, photo books, slideshows, websites, and podcasts. So everyone spends less time learning the software and more time using it.
iLife
Every Mac comes with iLife, an award-winning software suite that lets you and your students express your ideas — and yourselves — with video, images, text, and sound.
iLife includes the following applications:
- iPhoto, for storing, organizing, editing, and sharing digital photos.
- iMovie, for creating digital movies.
- GarageBand, for performing, recording, and creating music and podcasts.
- iDVD, for creating professional-looking DVDs.
- iWeb, for producing websites, blogs, and wikis with MobileMe.
Every iLife application shares the same interface and menu commands, so once you learn one application you’ve basically learned them all. They’re also designed to work together flawlessly. So it’s simple to organize video clips, photographs, or sound files, and then drop them into all the different applications using Apple’s one-of-a-kind media browser.
iWork
iWork is a suite of productivity applications — Pages, Numbers, and Keynote — that make it easy to create great-looking documents, amazing spreadsheets, and impressive, high-quality presentations. With iWork, word processing becomes much more interesting. You and your students can start with professionally designed templates and easily add images and graphs to enhance a key point. Science majors, for example, can use iWork to organize their research, visualize complex concepts, write grants, and present their findings.
Associate certification is available for educators and students who want to validate their iWork skills.
Professional Applications
Apple’s professional applications (all sold separately) have become the standards for professional photographers, filmmakers, editors, sound designers, music producers, and multimedia artists. With a Mac lab and Apple pro apps, educators at your institution canget the training they need to certify students in those applications. That’s important because certification allows students to be more competitive for jobs not only in creative fields, but also in more and more industries that expect employees to communicate their ideas in creative, compelling ways.
Aperture: Speed through edits, make essential adjustments, and deliver photos online and in print.
Final Cut Studio: Take advantage of integrated tools for realtime video, motion graphics, and audio production.
Final Cut Express: Benefit from the easiest, most affordable editing tools for real-time video and audio production.
Logic Studio: Create, perform, and record music.
Logic Express: Translate musical inspiration into professional recordings.
Shake: Create amazing visual effects using the only compositing software with a complete toolset for both individual artists and visual effects facilities.
Training and support for faculty.
Digital teaching depends on more than just getting computers into classrooms. It requires incorporating technology into your curricula. Apple’s Professional Development team works with schools and universities of any size to help educators develop the skills they need to apply technology in innovative ways to any discipline or subject.
Professional Development workshops.
Choose from several hands-on workshops that can help you develop ideas, design projects, and master digital tools. You’ll learn how to build new curricula around technology, create digital content for classes, and plan compelling assignments using a variety of media. All workshops are led by former educators who have firsthand experience putting technology to work in schools. Workshops are tailored to build on your team’s current skill level and can be held onsite at your institution. Learn more
More ways to keep up to date.
Pick the training program that best fits your schedule. Learn more
- Online tutorials — videos and text-based tips on everything from making a movie to creating a podcast.
- One to One personal training — focused, affordable instruction at Apple Retail Stores so you can learn any Apple application or get help with a particular project.
- Apple Learning Interchange — a free social network that lets you share, collaborate, and explore new ideas with other educators around the world.
Apple Certification
Apple certification programs recognize proficiency in iLife, iWork, and individual professional applications. Students and educators can take classes at Apple Authorized Training Centers. With the right qualifications, educators at your institution can also certify students onsite. Students who earn Apple certification build credibility with undergrad and graduate programs, as well as with potential employers. Certification in professional applications is especially valuable for students entering careers in filmmaking, photography, and music production.
K-12 Curriculum Collections
Apple works closely with educators to select the best third-party applications for learning math, science, language arts, and other core subjects. These new collections of educator-endorsed products are thoroughly vetted by Apple to save you the time and cost of sorting through all the choices yourself. The applications are chosen for their ability to help you individualize instruction, address a variety of learning styles, and create highly interactive classrooms.
Early Learning
This suite of applications helps students in the primary grades develop beginning reading, math, science, research, and geography skills. It also includes products that can inspire student creativity and help students who are learning English to develop language and reading skills.
Upper Elementary
For students in grades three through five, this collection of applications helps develop foundational math skills, strengthen reading and writing abilities, build an understanding of science concepts, and boost creativity and critical thinking.
Middle and High School Language Arts
These applications help students expand their writing skills and reading comprehension, increase their vocabulary, and publish their written work.
Middle and High School Math and Science
This collection of applications helps students develop conceptual knowledge of higher mathematics. It also promotes science inquiry and problem solving. A variety of research, organizational, and communication tools are included.
