Blog: Day Five



I am excited to use iMovie with my students and see what kinds of videos they can create. I use lots of technology personally but I am somewhat averse to letting my students use it because I either don't have enough for everyone, or don't think they can do it since they are elementary, or I just don't feel like doing a new lesson! I know, that is terrible. I think working in groups my older students will be able to create videos in iMovie or do more stop motion projects. I have had them make commercials on their own and they did great, so I could even make that into a lesson with iMovie to make them more professional (our media specialist helped them previously). One thing I am considering is having each grade level make a commercial for their fine arts nights (which happens once a year for each grade level). This could be played on the morning show and played on the TV in the office as well. They could also make promos for the school musical.

I think I would like more information on Garage Band, and my music teachers might be able to help with this. I don't know how much I need to use it but I feel what we learned about it just scratched the surface. It seems like a very layered program that has a lot of capabilities. I am used to using Adobe suite for photographers, so sometimes the Apple apps take some time for me to figure out and are not always the most intuitive to me.

If my colleagues have questions about using an iMac or iMovie, I am happy to help them. I think the Fine Arts department is the only department with actual computers and not just iPads, though. I get asked all the time questions about photography or art stuff so I am used to this.


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