Here's my .mac address - http://web.mac.com/lbcarroll/iWeb/Site/Welcome.html
Enjoy! I hope to get a permanent one for the school.

1. Overview - Welcome - Session One

Welcome to Introduction to Apple iLife ’06 in the Classroom
This course will be delivered by Leslie Carroll and Mary Marotta. We are both technology integration teachers for the Nashoba Regional School District and are very excited about teaching this course.

COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course is designed to train teachers to use the applications included in Apple’s iLife ’06 suite including iPhoto, iMovie, iTunes, iDVD and GarageBand. We will provide basic instruction on how to use each of the various applications and ideas on how to incorporate them into a classroom environment, either making projects for instructional use or teaching students to create their own projects.

Recommended Text: The Macintosh iLife 06 in the Classroom, Jim Heid & Ted Lai ISBN-10: 0-321-42654-1; also an iPod, MP3 player and digital camera maybe helpful in the class. If you have your own mac with iLife 06, please bring to class, we will provide the wireless. Handouts will include tip sheets, relevant Internet sites and other information compiled by the instructors.
Please introduce yourself to your classmates by clicking on the comments link.

Session 1
Friday evening we will have a guest presenter Christos Perakis christos@apple.com from Apple. Christos will provide an overview of iLife and share lessons and ideas from Apple. We are delighted to have him join us! (So, bring your supper to class!)
Links:
- http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/
- http://www.apple.com/education/resources

In the Classroom
See teachers’ lesson plans and sample projects using Apple’s powerful digital media tools:
iWeb
iPhoto in the classroom ideas http://www.apple.com/education/solutions/iphoto/
iLife
iMovie HD
GarageBand
iPod
iChat AV and iSight
iWork

* Shortcuts http://www.apple.com/support/iphoto/shortcuts

Samples to Watch
- Angus King's take on "The World is Flat."Mr. King will reveal this notions of how this important book exposes issues in the our current economy, Â the economies of the future, and how education needs to prepare our students for this flattened earth.
- Other examples
- Math
- Marco Torres - Digital Students
- Why ... Digital Media Students for more examples
- More http://podcast.nox.org/

Create sample class project - Monsoon at Nashoba.

2. iLife ’06 in the Classroom

iLife '06 in the Classroom http://www.apple.com/education/solutions/ilife/
Bring the sights and sounds that excite and inspire your students into the classroom effortlessly with iLife ‘06—a highly integrated software suite that comes on every new Mac. iLife features the latest versions of Apple’s award-winning iMovie HD, iPhoto, iDVD, GarageBand, and the new iWeb.

Take a look around!
View over 100 educator-created lesson plans for all grade levels and subject areas, and see how teachers are using iLife to engage students and increase achievement.*
Social Studies Language Arts Math Science Other
Favorites from Marco Torres - Digital Students.

Getting Started with iLife/iPhoto

iLife ’06 is the easiest way to make the most out of every bit of your digital life. Use your Mac to collect, organize and edit the various elements.

Useful links for getting started
- http://www.apple.com/ilife/ Apple iLife Site
- http://www.apple.com/ilife/quicktour/ Quick Tour

iPhoto - Basics
- Ten Tips for Capturing photos http://education.apple.com/education/ilife/howto/digitalphoto_tips/
- Using iPhoto - http://www.apple.com/ilife/iphoto/
- Quick Tour http://www.apple.com/ilife/quicktour/iphoto/
- Tutorial iPhoto Multimedia http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/iphoto/index.html
- Student Gallery of Ideas http://edcommunity.apple.com/gallery/student/

Getting Started with iMovie/iDVD

iMovie http://www.apple.com/ilife/imovie/
When you make a movie, you create a memory that will last forever. With iMovie, you simply arrange your video clips, still images, and music in the order that best tells your story. iMovie makes it easy to share your movies with your friends and family. Screen it on your TV, phone, iPod, or post it on the Internet

Using Magic iMovie
The fastest way to get started with iMovie is with Magic iMovie. Just plug in your FireWire camcorder, give it a title (optional), select transitions (optional), and a soundtrack (optional), and let iMovie do the rest. iMovie automatically rewinds the tape and imports your video from your camcorder, sequentially arranges it in the timeline, and inserts your title, transitions, and your soundtrack so your new movie is ready to play.
Tutorial http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/imovie/im1-1.html
More on themes - watch http://www.apple.com/ilife/imovie/features/themes.html

iMovie Tutorial - Moving Video from the Camera to the Mac http://www.apple.com/support/imovie/tutorial/imovieTutorial_t1.html

How-To-Guides (pdf) http://education.apple.com/education/ilife/howto/
Filming with Your Video Camera
Connecting the Camera and Creating a Project
Getting the Right Footage
Adding Transitions Between Clips
Adding Music to Your Movie
Getting Your Movie Ready for DVD

iDVD - One of the best ways to share your movies and photos is to burn them to a DVD. A DVD can hold hours of video, thousands of photos, or a mix of both, so you can fit a feature-length movie, several short movies, and a handful of photo slideshows on a single DVD. Take a tutorial
http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/idvd/index.html

Magic iDVD http://www.apple.com/ilife/idvd/features/magicidvd.html
iDVD has always made it easy to create beautifully designed DVDs. Now it’s beyond easy. With the Magic iDVD feature, all you have to do is choose a theme and select the movies and photos you want to include. iDVD then automatically creates a complete DVD, unified in design from start to finish, including menu screens, movies, chapter menus and slideshows. You have to see it to believe it. Want to join in the magic? Use Magic iDVD as a starting point and edit from there.

Other
Links Rubric - iMovie Rubric

Other Tutorials
iMovie Tutorials from the Atomic Learning library, uses videos to demonstrate iLife Awards www.apple.com/education/ilifeawards/

Other
- http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/movie/ Free downloads for iMovie
- FreeplayMusic - download free MP3 music clips
- http://www.sounddogs.com/ - free sound effects
- http://www.findsounds.com/ - free sound effects
- http://www.royaltyfreemusic.com/ - Royalty Free Music

RSS Feeds - Use in Bloglines or Google Reader *See Sidebar on this site - http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/search.php?collectionID=1&order=recent&output=RSS

Do More...
Make a Screencast on the Mac -
Snapz Pro X is a screen capture application for the Macintosh created by Ambrosia Software, Inc. With Snapz Pro you can capture all or a portion of the computer screen, specific objects like windows, menus, and dialog boxes, or a series of actions as a QuickTime movie. http://www.ambrosiasw.com/news/. Requirements: Mac OS X.

I have use the SmartBoard software/recorder on the PC. http://www2.smarttech.com/st/en-US/Support/Downloads/default.htm

Math Movies samples http://coolschooltools.com/

3. Midterm - Articles and links

Midterm Assignment

Practice and play with what you have learned. (iphoto, imovie, idvd and itunes).

In the comment box below summarize and comment on each item. (only need to post one reflection covering the three topics). Suggestion, write in Word (offline) and copy and paste to the blog. Save your Word document as backup.

1. Read an article about using these applications and/or video in education. Read it and reflect your opintions or ideas from the article and how it might apply to your assignment in school.
2. Go to iTunes, locate a podcast that you may use in your classroom. Tell us what you found!
3. Go to the iLife Awards Site http://www.apple.com/education/ilifeawards/ and lesson plans page http://www.apple.com/education/solutions/ilife/ Choose one you particularly like or one that is relevent to your job.

Article options
1. Article IPods Fast Becoming New Teacher's Pet
2. Article There's Something in the Air: Podcasting in Education (pdf)
By Gardner Campbell. © 2005 Gardner Campbell
3. How To: Use Digital Storytelling in Your Classroom * Edutopia Magazine
http://www.edutopia.org/magazine/ed1article.php?id=art_1418&issue=dec_05
Edutopia - A storyteller for education, GLEF profiles how teachers and students around the country are enacting many inspiring stories and transforming their schools http://www.edutopia.org/ - subscribe now!

4. Students Find Their Voices Through Multimedia The San Fernando Education Technology Team helps Latino students deliver powerful messages through video and the Web. Read and Watch - Marco Torres more Teacher Video by Marco Torres and Digital Students (Note Digital Students @analog Schools - 4th on right) Marco Torres student movies
http://homepage.mac.com/cinedlg/html/muves.htm

5. Jamestown - NEA Article http://www.nea.org/takenote/jamestown06.html (and check it out in iTunes/podcast)

6. Podcasting: Collaborative projects and shout-outs
Rock Our World (an international project using podcasting and videoconferencing)
Mothers' Day Podcasts Where in the World Podcasting Project: PDF Description and RSS Feed

7. eSchool News series Video Goes to School (may have to register to read articles *)
Part 1 http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStory.cfm?ArticleID=5597
Part 2 http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStorysr.cfm?ArticleID=5641 *
pPart 3 http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStorysr.cfm?ArticleID=5689 *

eSchool News Video on Demand Boosts Students’ Math Scores
8. http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/Pfshowstory.cfm?ArticleID=5134 *

See you on Friday, March 23rd!!

3. iTunes and Podcasts

Podcasting in Education - Imagine being able to listen to or view lectures and lessons on demand? Podcasts can deliver educational content for listening or viewing on your computer and iPod, freeing learning from constraints of the classroom and its clock. A podcast is audio or visual content that is automatically delivered over a network via free subscription. Once subscribed to, podcasts can be regularly distributed over the Internet or within your school’s network and accessed with an iPod, laptop, or desktop computer (both Macs and PCs). http://www.apple.com/education/products/ipod/podcasting.html and a three part series on podcasting - videos http://edseminars.apple.com/seminars/online_event.php?eventID=1

iTunes in Education
http://www.apple.com/education/products/ipod/itunes.html
Content where and when it’s needed.
iTunes brings podcasting to the classroom and beyond. Students and educators can subscribe, listen to, or view podcast content on their Macs or PCs with the free iTunes application or transfer it to iPod for listening or viewing on the go. They can also upload their own podcasts and share them with the world. The podcast directory within the iTunes Store provides access to over 65,000 podcast feeds from around the world, across all subject areas, including over 6,000 education-specific podcasts. Students and teachers can organize their content into playlists, such as a Spanish language playlist for quicker access within iTunes and on iPod. For example, a student could create a playlist of Spanish language dialogues and vocabulary for review.
Make it your own.

Assignment - Open iTunes and locate three educational podcast that you can use in your classroom. Pick three other podcasts that are of interest to you.

Recommended podcasts
Laurie recommends
- ilifezone.com (Chris Breen)
- Jamestown podcasts (NEA this month)
Carol recomments
- Corey Barker - photoshop elements quick tips/tutorials

4. Weekend 2 - Session - Getting Started with Garageband

GarageBand - You don’t have to be a musician to make music with GarageBand. GarageBand includes short pieces of pre-recorded music called loops. Loops contain musical patterns that can be combined and repeated seamlessly.The loops included witH GarageBand, or the additional JamPacks, feature all kinds of different instruments and musical styles. You can arrange loops with different instruments to create just the right combination of sounds.

1. Click here for a quick tour http://www.apple.com/ilife/quicktour/garageband/
2. Watch a step-by-step tutorial http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/garageband/index.html
3. Documentation GarageBand 3: Getting Started

5. iweb Overview and Publishing

Use iWeb to create websites and blogs — complete with podcasts, photos, and movies — and get them online, fast. Just drag, drop, and design with your choice http://www.apple.com/ilife/iweb/

Take a Tour http://www.apple.com/ilife/quicktour/iweb/ and watch a multimedia tour http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/iweb/iw1-1.html

To use iweb and post you will need a a .Mac membership.
Free Trial http://www.apple.com/dotmac/ (60 days) or join.

Apple-designed Templates
Let iWeb help you build a beautiful website in minutes using Apple-designed templates. Just choose a website theme that fits your style. Each theme offers page templates for “About Me,” photo album, blog, podcast, and movie pages, so you’ll always have the perfect place for your content.

iLife Media Browser
Every website needs content. Your podcast page needs audio. Your photo page needs images. Your blog needs links to your favorite music. And that’s why iWeb needs the iLife Media Browser.

Blogging
Use iWeb to start your own weblog and add new entries as easily as writing an email. Choose a blog template, type in your own text, and drag in photos from the iLife Media Browser. iWeb takes care of everything else, setting up navigation for your blog, creating a summary page, and adding an entry archive. iWeb also handles the RSS feed for your blog, so anyone can subscribe. And when you’re done adding an entry, just one click publishes your blog via .Mac. http://www.apple.com/ilife/iweb/features/blogging.html

Podcasting
When it comes time to take your podcasts live, iWeb gives you a simple, stylish way to do it. Either send your podcast to iWeb from GarageBand or start in iWeb with a podcast page template and drag your podcast in from the iLife Media Browser. Type over placeholder text to add a brief description of your podcast, then click once to publish it to the Internet using your .Mac account. iWeb takes care of the RSS feed for your podcast and lets you submit podcasts to the iTunes Music Store, where anyone can listen and subscribe. http://www.apple.com/ilife/iweb/features/podcasting.html

One-click .Mac Publishing
Sharing your website with the world is now one-click simple. With iWeb and a .Mac membership, you can publish your entire website — complete with blog entries, photo albums, links to Photocasts, movies, and podcasts — to the Internet in a single click. No configuration, no hassle. Just click “Publish” and iWeb automatically publishes your entire site to the Internet, where anyone with a web browser can see it. iWeb even lets you announce your website via email so friends and family stay in the loop. http://www.apple.com/ilife/iweb/features/publishing.html

SUMAMRY of Postings Steps reviewed in class. Please post at home Sunday morning and share your url here in the comments section for your classmates to see.

1. Creating the Account
Create your mac account
URL=http://www.apple.com/dotmac/"
URL=http://www.apple.com/dotmac/ Trial or Join
** note your username and PW (example mmarotta@mac.com)
Using your .mac account http://www.mac.com
** You can also publish/FTP to your Internet Service Provider (comcast, school, etc)

2. From iweb on your mac
iweb – on your computer - URL web.mac.com/username (created with iweb) sw on computer
3. Make the page (podcast, blog or other) *You will be prompted for this in step 7

GO to iweb on the mac and create

5. In Garageband
Open the podcast (created in class yesterday)
6. Pick Share it by selecting Share Podcast to iweb Menu
7. iweb will pop up (if multiple pages) and ask where to put it (this was covered above in Step 3)
8. Click publish at the bottom of the page and View
9. Note the URL and post it in the comments section of this blog post.

Our new .mac Group for this class is http://groups.mac.com/ilife_classroom (Note you will need to login with our .mac account name). Once your account expires you can still access the groups. Thanks to Laurie! Laurie's website with our group pictures at http://homepage.mac.com/lbp/ilife_class

Class Discussions and links to review

Class Discussion and your links
Use this post for comments, discussions and to post links and ideas that you want to share!
I attended Christa McAuliffe Conference last fall and a session by Ann Diott - adlott@hopkinton.k12.ma.us from Hopkington and a group of Shrewbury teachers on iLife and Podcasting that did with Elementary Students. I was very inspired.

Here are some of the links-
- http://spsmidweststates.blogspot.com/ Midwest states project
- http://www.shrewsbury-ma.gov/schools/spring/ShrewsburyHistory/HistoryofShrewsbury.html
- http://hpsmathmatters.blogspot.com/ and http://hpsreadingcorner.blogspot.com/
- http://spsaudiotours.blogspot.com/- http://spspoetryproject.blogspot.com/

Other links covered in the session
- http://spsreadingstrategies.blogspot.com/ - Reading Strategies,Tips to become a better reader
- http://lewisandclarktrail.com/elearning.htm podcasts to download
- http://spsliteraturecircle.blogspot.com/ Literature Circle
- http://hpsthegrandescape.blogspot.com/ Virtual Book group

6. Wrap-up and Evaluation