iMovie is an amazing tool that many do not take advance of using.  

Glen Weibe, (https://twitter.com/glennw98) former Kansas History teacher and now doing professional development full time through the educational service center, ESSDACK.  Glen’s blog, History tech, is full of great resources each day,  but today, his post is full of good ideas for using iMovie. I think you will find it inspirational and maybe give you an idea for using iMovie in your course.  I have also included a resource for learning to use iMovie.  Our students learn iMovie in DED 318.

Teaching with Movies: 20 tools for integration

by glenn weibe on February 18, 2015

Four times a year, I get the opportunity to work with 25-30 classroom teachers as part of an ongoing professional learning community. We chat about all sorts of things. Video games. Primary sources. Technology integration. Literacy standards.

Today, we spent the morning chatting with Don Gifford, KSDE social studies guru, about the upcoming state assessment and sharing strategies for encouraging discipline-specific writing skills. Evidence-based terms. Writing prompts. Good stuff.

The afternoon?  

Movies. 

We started by spliting up into two imaginary groups – parents and teachers. Each researched the following question:

Should movies be part of the instructional practice in a social studies classroom?  (any classroom)

Read the full story: https://historytech.wordpress.com/2015/02/18/teaching-with-movies-2015/

A 56 minute video Tutorial on Creating MultiTouch Books with iBooks Author from TeacherCast

There is a wealth of great content on YouTube, but streaming live in school environments is problematic much of the time.  So here is a work around, of course there are may, many ways to do this, but this is my personal favorite and it is easy and actually works.  Feel free to use and share the attached PDF instructions.

Guy Trainin,  University of Nebraska has been creating a series of Podcasts, 150 episodes so far.  One each week and only about 5 minutes in length.