iLife+09

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http://www.apple.com/ilife/

__**COMMENTS**__ 1. iWeb - using a second program for ftp-Fetch unnecessary and less confusing for the teachers. 2. GarageBand- Very cool new option that offers interactive piano and guitar lessons via self paced video instruction- I believe my music teachers would be all over that! 3.iMovie - students for this reason. My students who have used iMovie 08 also prefer iMovie HD when there are more options to allow for student creativity. 4. iPhoto-Some of my teachers are using iPhoto for students to research a topic and create an iPhoto Book and save as a PDF as another way to create/present a polished product. iPhoto is offering a few more photobook themes.
 * The improvements to Iphoto and Iweb would be advantageous for staff laptops. - Matt Rich
 * The improvements to imovie will help to be more user friendly for new learners and old lovers of HD will be happy to see old stuff back.- Jen Nelson
 * Helene's Comments Below
 * iWeb now has its own ftp software which I would be very interested in investigating. Would certainly make
 * More themes- more choices for design is engaging to students.
 * I have heard that they have added back in many of the options that they took out in iMovie 08. I still don't use iMovie 08 with my
 * Offers Greenscreen which can be used creatively by my teachers- this year iMovie was used more than ever before, it is always nice

What I mentioned above sounds great, but I would like to play with it as well as have 1 teacher in my building beta test it to see if it is all that the Apple website says this upgrade offers. It is hard to make a recommendation until I have actually worked with it, and since teachers will be the people that will be use it with their students, I would like to choose one "Power User" Teacher in my building to also beta test it. Having it over the summer would be the most optimal as far as having time to really tool around with this software, if you need to have it sooner so you can determine the image for next year (understandably), than perhaps we need to work wtih it sooner rather than later. -Helene
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