iMovie

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 * What is it?**
 * Plug in virtually any digital camcorder and iMovie starts importing your video. Then iMovie helps you organize your video just as you organize photos: by putting everything in one central location and grouping video clips according the date they were taken. So it’s easy to find the clips you’re looking for — whether to watch or to edit. Don’t have a camcorder? You can still use iMovie: It displays video you captured on your still camera and imported into iPhoto.


 * How can you use it?**
 * Create a timeline that moves: Present a succession of historical events in a photo slide show with music from that period.
 * Make your movie morph: For science class, present the stages of development in the life of a butterfly. Create a photo slide show with images you grab from bing.com.
 * Demonstrate things you can’t bring to class: Videotape feeding time for lions or gorillas at the zoo. or capture the physics at play in a local skate park with still photos or video.
 * Share the classics in a fresher way: shoot video of various students reciting a phrase or two from a shakespearean sonnet. string them together in a movie, and suddenly all eyes are on the screen. The whole class hangs on every famous word.
 * Try a different angle for math: For math class, share all the ways that angles appear in everyday life, from a city skyscraper to the painted lines in the school parking lot to the countless angles at play on a pool table.
 * Start a lively debate: Frame a debate topic by sharing the pros and cons of an issue with photos.
 * Can be used over any age group and with any curricular application.


 * Why would you use it?**
 * Easy to enhance: Add variety to movies with black and white, artistic, mirror, motion, and other visual effects. add pan and zoom moves to still photos for a professional look.
 * Easy to share: share your movie on the Web. Follow step-by-step prompts to help you quickly upload to YouTube, Facebook, and other video-sharing sites.
 * PRO: Engage, Entertain, Educate
 * PRO: Ease of use
 * PRO: Students can focus on the content and not the videography
 * PRO: Video tutorials are built right into iMovie
 * CON: May take a bit of time and patience for the teacher to introduce how to use the software to the students - especially those not familiar with Macs.
 * Standards: 1 a-d, 2 a-d, 3 a-d, 4 a-d, 5 a-d, 6 a-d

References LESSON PLAN using iMovie or other Digital Storytelling Tool by Karen Casselman
 * iMovie
 * iMovie Article