“Parkview Middle School eighth-graders are learning as much about sound bites, newscasts and movie-making as they are about the election with their iMovie production. Their assignment: collect articles on the presidential candidates and condense them into three-minute presentations. They spent two class periods putting them together,’ Jean Peerenboom reports for The Green Bay Press-Gazette.
“Through the Kids Voting program, classrooms across Northeastern Wisconsin are undertaking projects to learn more about elections and voting. To culminate the program, on Election Day, students will go to the polls to cast ballots at special Kids Voting booths,” Peerenboom reports. “At Parkview, 92 students were divided into 10 teams of eight or nine, who split up the duties of producer, anchor, movie editors, cameraperson and reporters. The project was used as a way to learn more about the iMac and iMovie technology, teacher Scott Balfanz said.”
Full article here.
Next week they’ll edit videos of Brett Favre and the Packers…
and in other news JJ uses iMovie to edit 70’s Super8 home videos…
Look on the bright side…
Kids learning to use Macs could result in creating a new generation of Mac-heads who wont tolerate the inferior user experience WinDoze offers them !
I wonder if there is an editing technique that may make George W. Bush sound intelligent. Good luck, kids.
They’ll be very busy editing all of the flip floppping John Kerry’s been doing!
Bush is very intelligent. Only a moron liberal would try to paint him as unintelligent.
Get ready for four more great years for George Bush! He will win and every one in my town is voting for him.
John Kerry = Terrorist Supporter
lmfao… speaking of painters.. Bush is quite the Leonardo himself…
George Bush is a saint! He will protect the United States from terrorism. Every one in my community is voting for him too!
Stan,
You sound almost as intelligent as Bush!
Can you explain to the class how you beleive that Kerry is a “terrorist supporter” ?
I actually live about ten miles from the middle school, and this is the first I’ve heard about that. It’s great they take time out to educate students of Wisconsin about the wonders of the Mac. Now for an Apple store in APPLEton…
Can you explain to the class how you beleive that Kerry is a “terrorist supporter” ?
-what? you didn’t see when the president said it? you know, what he says is true. because he believes it. and i can play it back. check it out. here’s my new imovie project that edits together all of w’s assertions into a brief three minute film. you tell me he’s not right after you listen to him say it a few times. how can you deny the truth in repetition that imovie makes it so easy to demonstrate?
Give Bush the “tush” a typewriter(not a MAC please!!!) and all the time in the world and he’ll never say anything meaningfull!!!
12 posts so far, and ONLY 3 are refering to the article at hand.
Again MDN decends into bullshit name calling between so called Democrats and so called Republicans. When the rest of the world knows the average American would be hard pressed to give a clear definition of each – especially those morons that think they speak American, actually it’s just English, different accents and slang words, but just English
See everyone can join in the useless name calling, and it all has nothing to do with Apple and Macs – Yeah!
Has ANYONE ever changed their mind about their political views due to the childish, trite name calling posted on this site?
I would bet they haven’t – so f&%k off and post it on some “we love Bush”, “we love Kerry” site.
Now back to the topic.
I wish that these sorts of applications/tecnology was availabel when I was in school, it would certainly have opened up so many more creative opportunities.
Cheers,
Luke
corrections:
tecnology = technology
availabel = available
Sorry my American ain’t that good
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I think it would be good to see what the kids have done. I can guarantee it’ll be better than most of my iMovie efforts.
Stan,
I hate this political BS in MDN… but really, please do tell us how Kerry is a Terrorist Supporter? I will vote for Bush if you can explain how.
But, you know… you are probably just reciting some crap you heard at a Bush rally….. so I am going to let it slide because you are one of the mindless sheep that graze on the BS that Bush puts out.
I personally do not like any of these candidates very much… but my personal belief is that Bush needs to be held accountable for his actions. And I prefer Kerrys drug plan and tax plan. That is my view… other have their views… and that is why we vote.
But if Kerry is SUPPORTING terrorist like Stan says… then obviously he should not be voted for. But I think Stan needs to stop drinking the Kool Aide in the Bush Camp and go to an independent news reporting site and inform himself on the truths of Bush and Kerry… and also look at the other presidential hopefuls.
Ohh man… the Dude got sucked into a political decision in MDN. ARRG!
VERY VERY unDude like.
The Dude abides.
JJ, how do you get the super 8s into the computer? I need to do the same thing.
Todd.
I’m glad you asked.
Depending on the model of computer you have, you have to make a hole big enough to fit a reel of film through.