So teachers are now supposed to make movies???!!!  Yes, it is true and actually really fun and awesome! Using IMovie on your apple computer you can make a movie, movie trailer or a movie short on any topic.  You can add your own voice as a voice over to pictures or video or you can use the sounds within I movie or download your own.  The possibilities are endless!  And in some ways that is the problem.

  When I first started looking at how to build the IMovie I was totally overwhelmed by the options that are available to feed your creativity, BTW, I have NO creative gene at all!  My suggestion is to take some time to look at all of the features in IMovie to understand what is available.  Do a "dummy" movie to try out all of the options first.

  Once you get an understanding of what you can do then you can download and work to your hearts content . . . right?  Not quite.  One of the downsides to IMovie is that you have to create the entire thing in one sitting because once you save it you cannot edit what you have already done.  You can add things to the beginning or the end, but you are stuck with what you have already created.  Because of this, the review of the options for I movie is even more important and doing a story board of the pictures to put them in order and picking the music you want beforehand is key.  I would also, if you are going to do a voiceover, write it out beforehand so you have it ready to go.

  However, once you are set it is a pretty easy application to use and the results are amazing!  Apple also has a help site to familiarize yourself with the technology:  http://www.apple.com/ilife/imovie/.  This should help you as well.  You will really impress your class with what you can do.  My grade for an IMovie presentation is an A-, the only minus being for the have to do it all in one sitting part.  Hope you like creating!

Meg