Looking at iLife for the Classroom
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Steve Armstrong
http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits/1001112/
Protest Music Video
This is a mixture of still photos and music, a retrospective on protest songs and images of the 1960s. That would be an interesting lesson to duplicate.
Don Carmichael
http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/lessonideas/LifeThroughTime.html
LIfe Through Time
A quick look at a snapshot in time. This could show students a relationship between biology and geology.
Chris Franken
Jo Ann Isleb
http://www.apple.com/macosx/applications/realbasic/
Although this isn't an actual lesson, it discusses another language that we are considering for our programming classes. It was very helpful.
Cheryl Kessler
http://education.apple.com/education/ilife/project_template.php?project_id=53&subject_id=3
M3 -- Math Movie Minute
The students tend to have a tough time with surface area and this does a good job explaining it. It'd be fun to give all of the kids different shapes and have them try to find the different surface areas.
Ken Latka
http://education.apple.com/education/ilife/project_template.php?project_id=27&subject_id=4
Elements Commercials
It isn't anything out of the ordinary, but it is something that we could use for the astronomy project. This year we had student make "infomercials" about their topic and we then watched them in class. The quality was poor at best. I think we could drastically improve the project by having the kids work with Imovie. My questions are...how do we get the video onto a computer that the kids can work on? Then how do I access the videos and show them in class?
Bob Lyons
http://education.apple.com/education/ilife/project_template.php?project_id=75&subject_id=1
Civil Rights Movement
This website is a student project on the Civil Rights Movement. It focuses on Elizabeth Ecksford and her experiences at Central High School in Little Rock. I would like my students to do something like this when we cover our civil rights unit.
Debbie Magee
http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits/1000882/
Hey, Hey What do you Say . . . .Let's make a PSA.
These are Public Service Announcements. I believe students in different organizations can make these for the morning announcements. For example, when the Substance Abuse Coordinator has one of her programs or the social workers help with the ribbon weeks, PSA could be created by the students who are members of the organization.
Lisa Nehring
http://www.apple.com/education/ilifeawards/project_ourmathtrail.html
Our Math Trail
I could adopt something of this sort for our field day of trig. The students go out and measure items within the school. he students could take pictures and create word problems from them and solve.
Margaret Plank
http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/lessonideas/wordswordswords.html
Words, Words, Words
Except, this would take some explanation. Students have each written a chapter of a storybook about "Diddl's Adventures", and have submitted the story and 3 pictures of Diddl (a stuffed animal) doing things during his visit to their house. I would like to film my students reading their chapter, intersperse it with the still photos, and burn a DVD of it for each of the students to take home at the end of the year. Diddl is currently out "visiting", but should be back in school on Wednesday. I will bring him and some of the photos - otherwise the web site makes no sense.
http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/lessonideas/MySchool.html
My School
No need for explanation - in other years we have done this with still photos and cassette tape.
Linda Reusch
http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits/1000527/
Measuring Speed with iMovie
It really is just people and vehicles moving across the screen at different speeds. I was thinking it could be adapted to teach rate of change (slope) in the Algebra classroom. In looking at other projects, it seems like maybe I could somehow figure the rate that each object is moving and create graphs to compare the slopes???? Wondering if maybe I could also incorporate an object that stops and then starts again to demonstrate a constant rate of change.
Sandy Washburn