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iLife Class Syllabus

I. iTunes

• A. Making a custom CD from your music collection
  • 1. Starting iTunes
  • 2. Getting songs from CDs into iTunes
  • 3. Change info
  • 4. Browsing and viewing your iTunes
  • 5. Make playlists
  • 6. Play a playlist and adjust Song Order
  • 7. Burn a custom CD
• B. iPod
  • 1. Moving a playlist to your iPod (demo only)

II. iPhoto

• A. Putting digital photos in your Mac
  • 1. Getting familiar with iPhoto
  • 2. Importing from a camera
• B. Organizing and Refining your Photos
  • 1. Organizing photos into albums
  • 2. Reordering shots
  • 3. Adding comments, keywords and ratings to images
  • 4. Creating Smart albums
  • 5. Cropping photos
  • 6. Adjusting their look
  • 7. Organizing sources into folders
• C. Printing and sharing photos
  • 1. Preparing to share
  • 2. Printing paper images
  • 3. A quick slide show
  • 4. other sharing options

III. iMovie

• A. Building a Dynamic Slide Show
  • 1. Customizing your slide show
  • 2. Making slide shows with iMovie
  • 3. Exploring iMovie
  • 4. Accessing and using photographs from iPhoto
  • 5. Creating titles
  • 6. Applying transition effects
  • 7. Simple adjustments to a dynamic slide show
  • 8. Adding music from iTunes
• B. A brief overview of shooting video
  • 1. Getting the right shots
  • 2. Getting video into iMovie
  • 3. What editing does to video
• C. Adding Narration to your dynamic slide show
  • 1. Using audio in iMovie
  • 2. Adding narration while working in iMovie
• D. Finishing touches and uploading to the web

IV. Garageband - Creating unique music for your projects

• A. A demo of creating new music
• B. A demo of creating a podcast

V. iWeb

• A. Using iWeb, create a simple website displaying the fruits of the class
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VI. iDVD

• A. Create a DVD of the class project