eMacs, iMacs assist in variety of educational activities
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Nov 15, 2004 at 12:25am
eMacs, iMac G5s and even the original iMacs are helping students with a variety of learning skills, from reading to filmmaking to learning English in locations from California to Alaska.
Gretchen Higgins Elementary in Vacaville, California, has received 45 eMacs and a software program to help with reading, reports The Reporter. A from the Frank H. and Eva A. Buck Foundation helped with the computer purchase; all the Macs were equipped with the Renaissance Place Learning Program.
Every classroom on campus is being equipped with three eMacs apiece, except the kindergarten classrooms. The software should be up and running following winter break, according to The Reporter.
Meanwhile, students at Community College of Southern Nevada use movie-making equipment just like the pros, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. And guess what hardware and software they use? iMac G5s and Final Cut Pro.
Students are “prowling the hallways of the Cheyenne campus’ new telecommunications building, compact digital cameras at hand, capturing footage for their documentary filmmaking class with barely contained fervor,” the Review-Journal notes. The enthusiasm continues unabated as the students report back to their classroom, which is equipped with dozens of iMac G5 computers that are equipped with Final Cut Pro HD, “the same editing program Hollywood professionals use to edit studio releases,” the article adds.
In Anchorage, Alaska, original iMacs (as in bondi blue) are used to help displaced Thailand residents learn basic English, according to the Anchorage Daily News. Classrooms and the technology in them at Tyson Elementary School in Mountain View are being used to help “a wave” of Hmong refugees arriving in Alaska from the Wat Tham Krabok camp in Thailand. Twenty-eight have arrived so far, and social service agencies are expecting 50 to 70 more in the next few months, the article adds.
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