Imovie

I chose to to use Imovie for my multi-media project because I have this brand new mac and I wanted to learn everything it has to offer. Also I have only used Imovie very casually and I wanted to get better idea of what it could do. First of all, Imovie is a mac only product, sorry PC, but as I found out it can handle a variety of different file formats. I brought in photos downloaded from Picassa and video from a friends helmut cam. I also downloaded a .mp4 file from Screenr.com that I think Iphoto converted automatically to a .mov format. All the video and images I brought in through Iphoto and music came from Itunes. The short audio clip I recorded directly in Imovie. One of the things I noticed right away was how intuitive it was. Most everything was drag and drop or stretch to fill. Simply double clicking on any click allowed you adjust many different aspects of video clips, audio tracks, titles and much more. With just a click from Screenr that video was downloaded and ready to use. Also as soon as I felt ready to upload the video to Youtube I just clicked on the share menu and chose the Youtube settings and within about a half a minute could log into Youtube and view the video. From there I just had to choose share and youtube had a quick-link to blogger.  I did have to save it as a draft because I wasn't ready for the text, but other than that it was ready to go.



I can see using this in the classroom to make lessons more Constructive. Combining video of the subject matter as well music to a lesson in order to appeal to several different learning types. I can also see using it to allow students to submit digital projects combining multimedia and innovation to allow students to express themselves.