Apple Training Series: A Teacher's Guide to Digital Media in the Classroom

Apple Training Series: A Teacher's Guide to Digital Media in the Classroom

Find out how you and your students can easily produce websites, podcasts, video blogs, and DVDs in no time.

Overview

In this Apple-certified guide, Richard Harrington shows teachers how to integrate digital media arts into their existing curriculum using iLife '08, iWork '08, and practical, step-by-step projects. The guide is designed for use with Apple Training Series: iLife '08 and Apple Training Series: iWork '08, and covers everything from designing a photo essay to creating polished video projects.

Developed in collaboration with the Pearson Education Foundation in accordance with the National Educational Technology Standards council, this book includes classroom-tested guidelines from the Foundation's Digital Media Arts program, as well as inspirational profiles of successful digital media classroom projects around the world.

Mfr. Part No.: 0-321-59143-7

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Students learn to:
  • Express a feeling: Create a photo-essay slideshow, add sound, and publish it on the web
  • Make a factual case: Track data in a spreadsheet, organize it into charts, then deliver it as a Keynote presentation
  • Make a persuasive case: Research an issue, develop an argument, and create a PSA in iMovie and burn it to DVD
  • Solve a problem: Reconcile income and expenses in a household budget and chart financial scenarios
  • Tell a story: Document the personal history of a community leader in a short, sophisticated movie

Author(s): Richard Harrington
Publishers: Peachpit Press
Published: August 2008
Format: Paperback, 96 pages
Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5 in./13.97 x 21.59 cm

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