PRESS RELEASE
September 25, 2003
Apple Announces Winners of Apple iLife Educator Awards
MARKHAM, Ontario—September 25, 2003—Apple® today announced the winners ofthe “Apple iLife Educator Awards” for 2003, recognizing the most innovativeuses of iLife™, an integrated suite of Apple's award-winning software for digital photography, moviemaking, digital music and DVD creation, in the classroom.
“Today's students are digital kids who learn and communicate differentlythan students did just five years ago, and teachers need new tools to keepthese students engaged in learning,” said John Couch, Apple's vice presidentof Education. “With the iLife Awards, we're recognizing and rewarding theeducators that have best integrated this powerful, yet easy to use set oftools for digital kids into their curriculum.”
The Grand Prize winner is Jon Hand, an 8th grade science teacher atMansfield Middle School in Connecticut, for his “Grass Born to be SteppedOn” project.
“The real winners are the eighth-grade students that created this incrediblework on the eMac using iLife,” said Jon Hand. “The students had been workingwith an analog VHS editing system for a few weeks, and were gettingfrustrated because the technology kept getting in the way of what they weretrying to say. So they found me and the Mac in our lab and in two dayscreated a powerful documentary.”
The “Apple iLife Educator Awards” contest was open to all K-12 district orschool level educators, or pre-service teachers and faculty or staff ofaccredited Colleges of Education located in the US or Canada (excludingQuebec). To see a complete list of the winning entries and lesson plans,visit 102.p.syniva.es/education/ilife
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