Teachers have discovered a new way to bring excitement into their classrooms and help students make meaningful connections to research topics. By introducing documentary filmmaking into their curriculum, they have created an environment where all students are successful and motivated to do their best work.

Now, Apple has made it easy for you to bring documentary filmmaking into your classroom. We’ve put together a package with all of the equipment you'll need, as well as materials written by expert teachers to help you get started. Whether it's science, social studies or language arts, students can become experts on a topic, creatively demonstrate their knowledge and easily share that knowledge with others.

Give students a voice
Documentaries give students the opportunity to be creative and express themselves using the digital tools they're most comfortable with. At the same time, they master basic skills - such as researching, reading, writing and speaking. They also build critical 21st century skills-such as problem solving, collaboration and the ability to gather and analyze data.

What’s included
Each solution includes a digital still and video camera for students to capture their own footage (such as interviews), a scanner for collecting images such as book pages and letters, a microphone and headphones for recording narration, a FireWire drive for storing students’ work in progress and other useful accessories.

If you already have a Mac, you can select one of our documentary solutions to turn it into a classroom documentary station. Or, you can choose a new Mac to complement your documentary solution.

Helpful teacher resources included
To make it easy to start creating documentaries with your students, each solution provides a rich collection of supportive resources. The first is the Documentary Resource Kit, which includes the 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. The Documentary Resource Kit can also be purchased separately. Also included is The Macintosh iLife ’05 in the Classroom book and online professional development.

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Built-In Tools

Every new Mac comes with iLife ’06, a highly integrated software suite featuring the latest versions of Apple’s award-winning applications: iPhoto for storing organising and editing digital images. GarageBand for recording and creating your own soundtracks. iMovie HD for editing your documentary. iDVD for publishing your documentary on a DVD. iWeb for producing your own webpages to publish with .Mac.