Desktop Movies in Language Learning: The advent of DeskTop Movies promises to unleash the latent George Lucas in all of us. Among the first to queue up for the neighborhood Oscar awards have been educational users …

For an example,
Maddalena forges her degree!
Andrea blackmails his sister!
Cinzia might go into labor
in the Student Union!

Yes, it's a soap opera – but not what you'd expect, Professor Tom Simpson's course in Italian Performance at Northwestern University where instead of practicing Italian in a traditional lecture/lab setting, conceive, create, perform, direct, film, and edit a telenovela – an Italian soap opera –all using iMacs with iMovie

http://www.apple.com/education/hed/macsinaction/northwestern/index.html

By Nancy Eaton

The 400 lb. klieg light was a nice touch.
A classic symbol of Hollywood movie premieres, its beacon swept across the Georgia sky in front of Emory University's Glenn Memorial Auditorium on a drizzly late January evening, heralding the opening night of iMovieFest, Emory's first residence hall-based movie festival.

About 800 students and faculty braved long lines in rainy weather to catch the showing of the best original short films created for the festival and to see the top three filmmaking teams walk off with well-deserved prizes.

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Updated: 0-05-01