imovie

I thought that this assignment was difficult, and very time-consuming. But, I do feel that if you simplified it enough fifth and sixth graders could use imovie. For example have them record footage but not spend too much time editing and adding music. I think that it would depend on the movie. If they made a movie where they had to demonstrate a concept the planning might help them to clearly understand the concept so that they could depict it well to other classmates. But while editing technology would probably take precedence depending on how well the students know the technology. I think that in order to make sure that technology doesn't take over you would need to teach about imovie for a few weeks so that it becomes easy to reach the desired product. I might actually use it if I had an older class for vocabulary or other clarifications of topics, but it is unnecessary for topics that are easily understood from typical classroom activity.