Apple Retail Announces 2013 Summer Filmmaking Camps for KidsAs it has in prior years, Apple is offering free summer camps for kids 8-12 at its retail stores, this year focusing on filmmaking with iMovie. The classes span three days, 90 minutes per day, with an introduction to the basics of movie making, GarageBand on the iPad, iMovie on the Mac, and then a film festival on the third day to screen movies for family and friends. The screenings are optional. Apple also provides an optional, one-hour Parents Workshop on the first day that teaches parents how to set up parental controls on Apple devices. At Apple Camp, kids ages 8-12 learn how to shoot their own footage, create an original song in GarageBand on an iPad, and put it all together in iMovie on a Mac. This free workshop, held at Apple Retail Stores, spans three days and ends with campers debuting their masterpieces at the Apple Camp Film Festival. Space is limited and workshops fill up quickly, so sign up now for a super-creative adventure.The first groups begin in mid-July, running through early-August. Some stores are already filling slots, but others have wide-open availability. Interested parents can register for sessions on Apple's website for U.S. and Canadian stores, while parents in Australia, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, can register to be notified when registration opens in their countries. Recent Mac and iOS Blog Stories • Best Buy Recalls Third-Party MacBook Batteries Over Fire Risk • Famed Designer Richard Sapper Was Once Recruited by Steve Jobs • How to Run OS X Mavericks in a Parallels Virtual Machine • Apple Seeds First OS X 10.8.5 Beta to Developers • 'XCOM: Enemy Unknown' Now Available in the App Store • Lytro Camera Gets Wi-Fi Capabilities, New Lytro Mobile App • Feedly Launches New Cloud Platform to Replace Google Reader Ahead of July Shutdown • Steve Jobs Ponders His Legacy In Never-Before-Seen 1994 Video
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