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Classroom Projects with iLife

Group Size:
Small Groups


  

Summary:
Teachers learn how to use various iLife products, build a sample project, and then create a project-based presentation of their own. A final project will include an iWeb page that has a podcast and photos.

Materials:

Attachments

Web Sites

Intended Learning Outcomes:
At the end of this two day course participants will:

  • Be able to use iLife tools to create a curriculum related multimedia project including text, images, audio, and video.
  • Be able to deliver the project online or within the classroom
  • Be able to develop a lesson plan engaging their students in creating iLife projects as part of learning the curriculum.

Instructional Procedures:
Day One

  • Project-based learning
  • iLife tools (overview
    1. iPhoto
    2. iTunes
    3. Garageband
    4. iWeb
    5. How to integrate these tools into a project
  • Sample Project
    1. Project outline and planning
    2. Import assets
    3. Create podcast
    4. Import assets into iWeb
  • Apple Resources (Apple site, lesson plans, examples)
    1. Spend time looking at resources on Apple web site
    2. Spend time at Curriculum Search
    3. Develop project idea
    4. Pair and share
  • Project Planning (time to plan individual projects)
  • Review rubric
  • Storyboard project plan
  • Look at various resources and how to download them
  • Copyright and Fair Use

Day Two
  • Planning and building individual projects
  • Sharing individual projects
  • How to publish or share projects
    1. cds
    2. folders
    3. web server
    4. .mac account
  • Ideas for using iLife in the classroom
  • Other fun things to do with iLife
    1. photobooks
    2. slideshows
    3. iDVD
  • Wrapup
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