iMovie

One app my kids absolutely love every year is iMovie. It's free. It's user friendly. It promotes creativity and thinking "outside the box". What I love most about iMovie is that it has pre-created templates for trailers or a blank slate for movie creation. 

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Typically I take a "run with it" approach to iMovie at the beginning of the year. I create my own "All About Me" movie to share with the kids. I let the kiddos play around with the formats during free time and allow them to collaborate with one another to figure out the features. 

After a few weeks of free play and exploration, we start with little lessons on how we can use iMovie intentionally to show our learning. Some ways my own students have used iMovie over the years are:

All About Me 
Informational video about a topic
State Projects
Creating commercials for their favorite book
Commercials for a product they've created
School newscast
Writing a narrated book
Digital personal narrative
How-To videos

There really are so many possibilities out there! 

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