iMovie

Playing with imovie was very fun and interesting; I've used photo story before which is similar to imovie but not nearly as fancy, but they are related. I would say photo story is the easy/lazy mans imovie for an extent. The flexibility and options available through imovie are endless, I can see using this program as a realistic teaching or presenting skill in all grade levels and with how computer savvy students are today I can see introducing the program to them in the later elementary grades and allowing them to explore the program for assignments. I've said in the past that young children today are loosing their creativity and ability to play with abstract toys for long periods of time. A program like imovie has the potential of recreating creativity for students, I think we need to make a shift from paper pencil imagination to computer imagination. Something that our students are more innately hard wired for. They could polish their movie making skills also while honing in their presentation and diction skills. Giving students the chance to explore a program teaches students more than you could ever imagine, when you give them enough to play around they will start to click on buttons and l figure out parts of the program that if you tried to teach them would take much longer.imovie is the direction that we as educators need to be traveling in. On top of it all it is super fun to play with.