Product Samples Created with the Apple Distinguished Education "Apple Seed"

I am honored to have been chosen an Apple Distinguished Educator in 1996 and to have been reappointed in 1998, 2000, and 2001. 

One of the projects during the 2000 school year was to determine what an educator could do with a contemporary Apple PowerBook and a Canon ZR10 digital video camera. Hundreds of teachers and students have had the opportunity to learn to publish using digital video with this equipment. 

As a result of this project, a multimedia academy was offered as a constructivist opportunity for those who wanted to learn to use digital images (video and still), sound, graphics tools, and a variety of file formats to create an instructional project to be used in the classroom. Equipment used in these projects consists of Apple PowerBook (Pismo), iMac, G3 Macintosh computers and the Canon ZR-10 camera as well as software applications such as iMovie, AppleWorks, HyperStudio, QTVR Authoring Studio, Sound Companion, and QuickTime Pro. The final projects which were then burned to a CD-ROM and distributed to other schools to be used as instructional lessons through virtual field trips. 

Some of the products created as a result of the many multimedia academies are a part of the ComputerWorld-Smithsonian Laureate Nomination for  2001.

The samples below are shown to illustrate the variety of things students can do with these tools. Additional work can be seen in the 2000 Smithsonian-ComputerWorld entry.
 
The Missions of the Greater El Paso Area

Part of a student project on the El Paso Zoo:
 
 
 
 

iMovie plays a major role in obtaining digital footage from the Canon ZR-10 camera. Images are captured with iMovie for the creation of the QTVR file.

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Part of a student project on the Socorro Mission in El Paso, Texas:















Piro Indians and Franciscan missionaries arrived in the El Paso valley in 1680. The church construction began in 1684 and was completed in 1692. The mission was abandoned because of Apache attacks. In 1843, it was replaced after floods.  Current renovations are underway (as can be seen in this movie clip), and are expected to be completed in 2004. 
A QuickTime Image Sequence created with stills and sound captured from video clips with iMovie. 

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 This student-produced video clip and voice over explains the construction of the adobe brick used in the Socorro Mission. This clip is part of the overall project on this mission:
 
 

High school students are helping in the renovation of one of the missions and needed to learn how to make adobe.

 
Native American Pictographs in Paint Rock, Texas
Click here to see and hear about the pictographs.

Among the many projects created with the Canon ZR-10 and iMovie are:
  • virtual field trip of the El Paso Zoo for elementary students
  • virtual tour of the four missions in El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico
  • virtual field trip of topics of interest in and around San Angelo, Texas, 
    • planetarium at Angelo State University
    • Goodfellow Air Force Base
    • history of Concho pearls
    • investigating genealogy at the library
    • Fort Concho
    • bird banding and hummingbirds in a Texas bird sanctuary
    • hydroponics and water lilies
    • U. S, Customs office
    • Lake Nasworthy nature center
    • Commanche Indians
  • A Different Point of View: A View from the Top

    • A video from the point of view of the Lady Liberty on top of the Texas Capitol in Austin.
All of these products were created entirely or in part with iMovie are available for viewing on CD-ROM. They are too large to mount on the web.


Examples of iMovies created by fellow ADEs and other Apple evangelists.

Patsy Lanclos
Apple Distinguished Education 1996-2002