Day 33 - iMovie 1

iMovie and Educational Videos
Public service announcements have been around forever. It is incredible what an impact 30 seconds can have. Using video ineducation 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 descriptions 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 MovieMaker 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 3 class meetings.

For Friday:
1. One of the students from each group sends me following information (Due: April 6, 10 am):
1) name of your group members,
2) Title of your project,
3) Target Audiences,
4) Objectives of your educational movie
2. Please remember that class will not meet on Friday, April 6, because it will be your filming day.

For next Monday'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.
3. Bring any still images you want to use in your video

More Resources for iMovie project:
iLife http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/collection.php?collectionID=7
iLife Tutorial http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/
iMovie Tutorial http://www.atomiclearning.com/imovie2x.shtml
A winning video entry: http://mabryonline.org/movie_html/2005-8-INDI-Right-to-Vote.htm
Storyboarding Tutorial: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~ricky/etec/whatis.html
Digital Video Resources: http://www.ivieawards.org/video_resources2.html

Other things might be needed for capturing your footage:
1. Lapel microphone
2. Tripod