iMovie and Educational Videos

The Inspiration/Kidspiration Project is due today. Please turn in all portions of the project at the beginning of class.
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Public service announcements have been around forever. It is incredible what an impact 30 seconds can have -- think about Smokey the Bear and the Crash Test Dummies. Using video in education has been around for a long time, but it is just in recent years that it has become simple for classroom teachers and children to create and edit their own educational videos. The Apple Learning Interchange gives multiple examples of using educational video for teaching content standards.

You'll want to review the project guidelines for this project. We will use iMovie for editing. iMovie HD is the software available in the iLife suite on Macintosh computers. PCs have a similar software called Movie Maker 2.0 -- but it is not as easy to use in its existing version. Today you'll learn the ins and outs of the software. We will edit video during the next 2 class meetings.

For next Tuesday's class:
1. Bring your tape of no more than 8 minutes of raw footage for your video.
2. Bring any music that you want to use as background on your video.

Please remember that class will not meet on Thursday, February 7.