Digital Media Creation Kit (Grades K-12)
Create. Express. Learn.
The Digital Media Creation Kit provides a perfect companion to the iLife suite of digital authoring tools that comes installed on every new Mac. The kit offers a collection of tools that students can use to create exciting projects by capturing their own video footage and digital photos and creating their own music. They can then use their original content in their historical documentaries, poetry photo books, science project slideshows, biography websites, radio show podcasts, and more.
Built-in tools
Every new Mac comes with iLife ’08, a highly integrated software suite featuring the latest versions of Apple’s award-winning applications:
- iMovie for creating digital movies
- iPhoto for storing, organizing, editing, and
sharing digital photos - GarageBand for performing, recording, and creating your own music and podcasts
- iWeb for producing websites and blogs
- iDVD for creating professional-looking DVDs
With iLife and the Digital Media Creation Kit, students have access to robust digital authoring tools, empowering them to creatively express their knowledge with video, images, text, and sound.
Just-in-time learning for iLife ’08
With the Apple Media Series: iLife ’08 for the Classroom, K-12 educators and students can access engaging how-to videos and follow step-by-step guides to learn the features of iLife ’08. A K-12 school site license is priced at just $50, and permits use of Apple Media Series on up to 500 student and 50 educator computers.
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What’s included
| Product | Company |
|---|---|
| Canon PowerShot A470 Digital Camera |
Canon, Inc. |
| Each of the two cameras included is equipped with a 2.5” LCD display, 7.1 megapixels of resolution, a 3.4X optical zoom, and a full range of performance features. | |
| Canon ZR900 DV Camcorder | Canon, Inc. |
| The solution provides two Canon ZR900 DV Camcorders with 41X Advanced Zoom, a 2.7" Widescreen LCD display with a Soft LCD video light, built-in microphone terminal, and more. | |
| M-Audio Oxygen 8 v2 25-Key USB MIDI Controller |
M-Audio |
| This mobile USB MIDI keyboard features 25 full-size, velocity-sensitive synth action keys, eight fully assignable MIDI controller knobs, six fully assignable buttons, five dedicated function buttons, and other useful features. | |
| Documentary Resource Materials | Apple Inc. |
| This useful kit makes it easy to create professional-looking documentaries. It includes a National History Day DVD "Using iMovie to Create a Documentary," "Stories Worth Telling: A Guide to Creating Student-Led Documentaries," and a Documentary Resource CD that provides lesson plans, examples of student-created documentaries, templates, and more. | |
| The Macintosh iLife ’08 in the Classroom book |
Peachpit Press |
| This teacher’s edition of the best-selling interactive guide to iLife teaches the reader how to use the iLife applications and provides suggestions and detailed lesson plans for using iLife to enhance learning in all subject areas. | |
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