TeacherTECH Tools Series: Digital Video Production and Editing Using iMovie

Elementary School, Middle School, High School, Community College and Continuing Education Educators are invited to attend our March TeacherTECH Technology Tools Series workshop focused on video production and editing using iMovie.

Workshop Description

The objective of this class is to provide basic instruction for teachers on how to perform simple video editing and DVD production using iMovie and iDVD. We will learn how to upload, edit, and export video. Regarding editing techniques, we will cover the fundamentals including transitions, titles, effects, music, and sound editing. We will also learn how to create DVDs of iMovie projects. The class will conclude with a discussion of how to use iMovie as a pedagogical tool.  This discussion will be grounded in a demonstration of how iMovie can be applied as a medium to engage students in the classroom.

Why Use iMovie?

With iMovie, you can bring your lessons to life through video, sound, and pictures. iMovie is a powerful and highly engaging tool for students to share their knowledgeand express themselves in the form of digital movies. Your students can create high-quality video reports to demonstrate abstract concepts, or documentaries to increase the relevance of social issues. And you can easily share best classroom practices with your peers. Students can create compelling projects that combine digital video, photos, and music, and even their own voice narration. There’s no limit to what they can create.

-  Apple Education - iMovie in the Classroom, http://www.apple.com/education/imovie/

iMovie in Teacher Education

iMovie has made a surge into classroom instruction, in part because of the rapid growth in the field of digital video and partly because of Apple's superior software design that offers tremendous ease for the user.  Like all educational technology, desktop video editing is not a ubiquitous solution for all of the challenges teachers face in today's classroom.  Teachers using digital video, in particular iMovie, have provided  an abundance of anecdotal evidence for encouraging individual expression, spawning creativity, revitalizing content, promoting collective knowledge construction and individual reflection, and offering students of a variety of backgrounds and experiences to engage in authentic learning.

-   Randy Yerrick, San Diego State University, excerpt from iMovie in Teacher Education

To read more, please visit http://edweb.sdsu.edu/sciencetg/ie/. 

For this Workshop, You Will Need to Bring

• Mac laptop with the latest version of iMovie installed 
• Digital camera
• USB cable to connect camera to laptop 

Please join us for an exciting and informative session of hands-on learning presented by Kelly Smith, The Nativity School.

Registration is free. Space is limited. Please contact Ange Mason at 858-534-5064 or amason@ucsd.edu to reserve your space.

For information on other TeacherTECH workshops, please see http://education.sdsc.edu/teachertech.