Url: http://www.apple.com/au/ios/imovie/

Age recommendations: Year 3 and higher

Cost: Mac Version $22.99 or iPad Application $7.99

Accessibility: A software application and an iOS application for use on Apple computers and iPads.

Description: This resource is a movie editing software suite and iPad application that allows for the creation of videos and movies.

Australian Curriculum Connections:ICT general capabilities: Creating with ICT Level 3.

“Students create and modify simple digital solutions, creative outputs or data representation/transformation for particular purposes” (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority, 2014a).

"Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features and selecting print, and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose"(Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority, 2014b, ACELY1682).

 

Critique

Using movie-making software like iMovie in the classroom is beneficial to students learning, as they require teachers to surrender control and place students at the centre of their own learning (Banaszewsk, 2002). iMovie can be used in middle and upper primary school classrooms for the generation of videos across a range of curriculum areas but can be particularly valuable when used to achieve English curriculum objectives. Year 3 students could use iMovie to demonstrate their understanding of the key elements of a novel they’ve read by creating a simple trailer designed to persuade other students to read the novel (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority, 2014b, ACELY1682).  

 

References

 

   Australian Curriculum and Assessment Reporting Authority. (2014a). Information and Communication Technology General Capability (ICT) Continuum. Retrieved from http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/generalcapabilities/information-and-communication-technology-capability/continuum#layout=columns

 

   Australian Curriculum and Assessment Reporting Authority. (2014b). Foundation to Year 10 Curriculum: English (ACELY1682). Retrieved from http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/english/curriculum/f-10?layout=1

 

   Banaszewski, T. (2002). Digital storytelling finds its place in the classroom. Multimedia schools, 9(1), pp. 32-35. Retrieved from 

http://hdhstory.net/school/lit/Digital%20Storytelling%20Finds%20Its%20Place%20in%20the%20Classroom.pdf