Apple+Academy+iLife

iLife
All the video tutorials from the iLife series are available online through iTunes U.

iPhoto
Hold down option key when launching iPhoto. Then you can choose which iPhoto library you want to use. Places: Location comes from your camera if the camera can hold that data. Set date, time and location. Faces: Go to some photo and click Name. Add a name for someone. Demonstrate how to match more photos of that person. Albums and Smart Albums: Editing: Show revert to original Red eye: auto works well Demonstrate how to use Adjust to set the white point. Go to Edit, Adjust and use the bottom under Temperature to the eye dropper. Photos: Batch change under the Photos menu From Albums you can create a slideshow by just clicking slide show and then choosing a theme Custom play list of music for a slide show. Demonstrate how to create a book. Show how to add locations to Map pages. You can use Pages in the landscape layout, create a page using photos, text boxes, or anything else. Choose print and send it as a PDF to iPhoto. Then take the whole photo book and save it as a PDF to iPhoto and upload it to the iPad. WOW!

iMovie
To let a person appear twice in their own video: go to [|YouTube Techfacilitator Clone Tutorial video]. Can add a piece of music to iMovie and then add beat marker. Drop in a set of photos and they will change on the beat markers. How to Create Beat Marker: iMovie

When you select a section of video with the yellow box, swipe it with 3 fingers and it will jump up into your project.

Garageband
Turn on set alignment guides under the Control menu.Legal: 20 seconds or 10% whichever is less. Podcast track for video or stills Male designed to pick up lower register and female higher register. Kids: you never record without a script. Stickies works really well for a script. Make the sticky note a floating note so it shows over the top of GarageBand. Double clicking on the note's top bar with roll it up or down.


 * Cycle Region:** This allows you to record several takes of a speech. First record the first take, then click the cycle regoin button, and extend the yellow highlighting a little beyond the recording. Then you can record the same thing again in the same region without deleting the first. You can click between the takes to listen and see if one is better than the other. You can also split the takes into parts and use the first part of Take 1 for example, and then the last part of Take 2 for the end.

R starts recording, and space bar stops. Always give yourself a count of 2 before you start talking and after you finish. As you listen to the audio hit the letter P and it will make a place marker for a picture. Just listen to the whole podcast hitting P whereever you want a photo. Then go back and and click on the top Podcast Track and below you will see openings for all of your photos you want to drop in. Marker: place markers so you can fast forward the podcast to chapters. You have to title those markers.
 * Vocal Transformer**: If students want to do an "interview" and record both parts they can add a vocal transformer to their voice to make it sound like two people. First have the student record each "person" on his/her own track. Then select the track to transform, click the i in the circle at the bottom right, Then Then click in an empty box under all of the existing effects and a list of effects will come up. Go to Vocal Transformer. Then click on Default and a list of choices will appear. Potentially you could add several vocal transformations.

When you export your podcast to iTunes and play it it will appear in the bottom left corner. If you double click that it will come up in a window.

In iTunes add the script into the Lyrics when you get info on your Podcast. Then on the iPod touch you can hear and see the text.

Magic Garageband is a great place to create music and then you can drop that back into Garageband. It will come up as different tracks and you can add other loops. Set it up to loop and play it while clicking on other loops to hear what sounds good with it. The green loops are midi loops and students can actually look at the score and move the notes around. Any green tracks can be printed to PDF so it ends up being a piece of music that can be played on other instruments.

Bands are now releasing music in Gargeband format and are encouraging others to remix and submit that music.