iBook Orientation

Here are some web sites that will help you get the best out of your iBook!

Apple Support Sites provide answers to questions, downloadable documents and discussions:

Apple Support

iBook Support

Mac OS X Panther Support

Mac OS X Tiger Support

Mac 101

Atomic Learning
Atomic Learning login for August '05: Username: apple password: corn

Apple Professional Development Online includes the Learning Center as well as other self-paced courses, access to NetTrekker and Atomic Learning resources, and a professional library. Use your temporary 30-day evaluation name and password until you receive your annual subscription activation code.

Apple Professional Development Online (APDO)

Here are two excellent web sites that support integrating iLIfe applications into teaching and learning. Both the iLife in the Classroom and the Apple Learning Interchange sites provide great examples of students projects, lesson plans and other resources. These sites, as well as a number of other helpful sites, are listed in the LInks section on the right side of the page.

Apple Learning Interchange

iLife in the Classroom

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Digital Learning Presentation

1. Start with the Digital Kids website. It documents how digital kids think and learn differently due to the media-rich, mulitsensory world they've grown up in. Be sure to play a couple of the small video clips to hear from educators and digital kids. This site also redefines achievement to include more than just the 3 R's and hightlights digital tools that engage kids in learning and help them be successful.

Digital Tools for Digital Kids

2. Next go to the iLife in the Classroom site. Give an overview of iLife and mention iWork. Point out the support tutorials, tips and techniques, and other links and resources on this site. Then point out the lesson plans. Go to Social Studies and scroll through the projects to show the diversity and that there are projects from each grade level area.

Show Grass Born to Be Stepped On (probably not the whole thing, but enough so you see the depth and power of it). Optionally show another example you like or is of interest to the audience.

Then show either Gettysburg (Elem) or I Serve in the Civil War (Middle School). Then show a couple of applications students could use to research the Civil War. I suggest Visual Thesaurus and NetTrekker.

iLife in the Classroom

Visual Thesaurus

NetTrekker

3. Go back to the iLife site and show a few project examples from other curriculum areas. In Language Arts, Chasing Metaphors is a good one. And if you have primary teachers, Alphabet Photo Book or A Living Alphabet are both cool. In Science, Baffling Biomes is a good one. In the Other category, show Word of the Day.

iLife in the Classroom

4. Give an overview of the Apple Learning Interchange. Show the new Student Gallery. Show where the Alan November webcast is, and use the Ocotpus and Holocaust examples to demonstrate how kids can be taught to discriminate good from bad, or suspect, information.

Zapatopi

Holocaust

Then use Alta Vista to demonstrate some of Alan's Iinformation Literacy examples: (links, host, url)

5. Show GarageBand and the GarageBand in the Classroom site.

GarageBand in the Classroom

6. A couple of other resources to make sure they know about:

Apple Professional Development Online

Atomic Learning

Kansas City Star | 05/12/2005 | Kansas Supreme Court challenges attorneys

Kansas City Star | 05/12/2005 | Kansas Supreme Court challenges attorneys

Fearless Learners and Courageous Teachers - Alan November webcast

View the archive of this webcast to learn what new skills and responsibilities students (and teachers!) need to develop a global work ethic.

Alan November Webcast

A New Adventure - Visit my Class

A New Adventure

iLife in the Classroom

At this site you can access and experience dozens of student-created iLife projects in every subject area. All the projects include a lesson plan along with the project example. The projects range from 2nd graders explaining the Pledge of Allegiance to middle schoolers using video to measure the speed of objects to high school students creating documentaries about World War II that include primary source interviews.

All the projects were created using iLife authoring applications (iMovie, GarageBand, iPhoto and iTunes) and there are links to tutorials, tips and techniques, and lots more resources.

Feel free to comment on any of the projects, or let me know about projects your students have done.

iLife in the Classroom

Digital Kids

Today’s kids are different than kids were 15 years ago. They learn differently and as a result feel disconnected from schools that were designed for another time. At this web site you can find out more about how kids today are hyper-communicators and multitaskers. There are links to resources and research about today's kids and the skills they'll need to succeed in a digital world, as well as a broad definition of achievement. Finally, there is information about digital tools that engage and motivate today’s kids to want to learn.

After you explore this site, please comment on whether or not it was interesting and relevant to you, or any other thoughts or comments you’d like to make.

Digital Tools for Digital Kids