Content Creation

This Apple Education podcast features Full Sail University, a place where students are “media creators,” who rely heavily on Apple solutions from the time they enter the school and receive MacBook Pro computers. They also use the industry standard toolsets - Apple Pro Applications. Their projects require intense file storage, file sharing, and workflow needs - all things that are seamless on a Mac.

Elaine Wrenn, Technology Coordinator at Echo Horizon School in California, explains how iLife and iWork are integrated into the PreK-6th grade curriculum. The fifth- and sixth-grade students experience a digital learning environment using MacBook computers. The sixth grade curriculum includes a unit on watershed and students are able to use the information, audio files, and photos that Elaine gathered during a trip to Peru. Students collaborate and use this data to create authentic projects. Several other projects the students create using iLife and iWork are explained.

Perry Lee, Social Studies Teacher, and Mary Palmer, English Teacher from Bismarck, North Dakota, explain their combined class documentary filmmaking project. The students learn about the history of wars, interview people who were in a war, and create a documentary film about them. iLIfe is used to share their stories. The connection with the community is the most valuable part of the project.

This Apple Education podcast features Arizona State University Journalism student Liz McKernan describing the advantages of Apple technology in ASU’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism. She describes the ease of use provided by the ubiquitous environment of Apple hardware and software that are provided at the School, especially the ease the Apple tools afford her to meet tight broadcast deadlines and deliver live newscasts.

This Apple Education podcast features how Arizona State University’s Cronkite School of Journalism has created a program designed to lead the journalism industry, rather than keep up with it. Students and faculty use Apple tools to research, create, edit, produce, and report. The Apple tools are also essential in supporting their innovative field-based backpack journalism.