Welcome to iLife!

www.educ.ttu.edu/howto/ilife
by Wesley Fryer

Overview

This tutorial is designed to be used with a 6 hour workshop, introducing participants to the basics of Apple's iLife software (www.apple.com/ilife). These applications include:

• iTunes
• iPhoto
• iMovie
• iDVD (requires a superdrive equipped Mac)

We will also review use of .Mac (www.mac.com) services, which include straightforward web publishing from iPhoto, and online webpage creation for iMovies.

1. Overview of iLife

A. We live in an era of two digital divides:

1. Students who have computers at home and those who don't.
2. Students who are digital natives, and adults who are digital immigrants.
3. See my notes from presentations by Ian Jukes and David Warlick for more on this.

B. We are living in a time of exponential growth in many areas and change at breakneck speeds. Consider:

1. The 5 GB iPod of 2001 holds over 1000 songs, or 3 days of continuous, non-repeated music.
2. The 30 GB of 2003 holds over 7,500 songs, or 3 weeks of music. That is enough music to play 1 song per day for 20 years and never repeat a song.
3. Until the announcement of the Apple Macintosh G5 in summer 2003, the most capable desktop computers were 32 bit machines capabile of addressing a maximum of 6 GB of RAM.
4. 64 bit desktop computers, of which the G5 is the first one ever, can theoretically address 6 terabyes of RAM. That is 6 million gigabyes of RAM.

C. We are quickly approaching a day when one to one (1:1) computing will the the norm, not the exception, in classrooms and homes across America. (See my notes on Elliot Solloway's presentation at NECC 2003)

D. We live an an unprecendented era of digital media access and publishing for the common man and women, boy and girl. iLife allows you to publish at will: not merely text, but graphics and videos as well.

Demonstrated iLife Samples:

• iPod
• .Mac website with photos from iPhoto and iMovies
• Exported iMovies for educational and personal audiences
• Custom DVD with iMovies and Slideshow

2. iTunes

We will learn how to:

1. Visit the iTunes Music Store to browse and purchase music for 99 cents per song (www.apple.com/music/store)
2. Import songs from a CD you own (rip them into mp3 format)
3. Create a playlist in iTunes
4. Sync an iPod to iTunes

3. iPhoto

We will learn how to:

1. Import photos from your camera into iPhoto
2. Perform basic editing of photos (rotate, crop, adjust brightness and contrast)
3. Create albums and organize photos
4. Show an album as a slideshow

Participants will view a demonstration of creating a .Mac photo page with iPhoto.

4. iMovie

An older tutorial on iMovie 2 is available also. Most of the steps described in this tutorial are the same for iMovie 3.

We will learn how to:

1. Work with video imported into iMovie. These skills will include:
   1. Dragging clips from the shelf to the timeline.
   2. Splitting a clip into two parts
   3. Selecting part of a clip and deleting it
   4. Creating a still image
2. Adding transitions.
3. Adding titles.
4. Inserting a mp3 file as a background sound
5. Sharing your finished iMovie:
   1. As an exported Quicktime file for the web or CD.
   2. By recording back to tape
   3. By using iDVD to create a custom DVD

5. iDVD

Basic use of iDVD will be demonstrated. Skills will include:

1. Choosing a Custom Theme
2. Adding an iMovie menu item
3. Adding an organizer menu / submenu
4. Adding a slideshow with background music

Links

1. Use the free .Mac slides publisher to share your photos worldwide with others as a screen saver. (www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/macslidespublisher.html)