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Apple Offers Keynote and iLife for Teachers

Posted by pudge on from the less-money-less-money-less-money dept.

MikeXpop writes "Apple announced that its two new apps, Keynote and iLife, will be available for teachers for only $15, saving educators $113 (compared to the regular education price). Also, Apple is extending the deadline for free Jaguar for teachers. Both offers end March 31st."

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  1. Anyone else notice something odd...? by girl_geek_antinomy · · Score: 1, Interesting

    As far as I could tell from a quick follow of the link, this offer is available only to K-12 teachers and accredited Faculty members of post-secondary colleges - surely secondary school teachers are *most* likely to want/need these tools, and are more likely to be getting to students when they're both aware of the tools being used on them but also open to *uhm* suggestion...? They're missing a trick here, shurely?

    Oh, and also, why only in the States? The Free-Jaguar deal applies in the UK, too... when for free iLife and Keynote?

  2. Why the family imac needs keynote by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There are a lot of uses for Keynote beyond presentations. Since it brings together XML, PDF, and Quicktime really well, the imaginative among us can do some cool shit with it.

    For example, a friend of mine who works for an ISP plans on converting server statistics into graphs, which can then be displayed on his desktop as a Quicktime movie, in fact, there's a nifty (evil) OS X hack out there which lets you use Quicktime displays as your desktop background, which I believe he is planning on using for this.

    So, sitting at a friend's house with his iBook, he can minimize his windows any time he likes and take a look at how his company's servers are doing. Okay, he's doing it more to be '1337 than for the actual utility of it, but that does give you an idea of how there are other cool ways to utilize keynote besides uberPowerPoint lectures.

    A few more steps, and we'll be safe in the Fire Swamp.