ILife for the classroom

Hi all,
I'm not real sure which discussion area to post this in, so iMovie is the lucky winner
I'm a 4th grade teacher with hopes of using iLife in the classroom. I'm also a musician. What I am NOT is a fluent tech person. I'd like to purchase a camcorder of some sort that will work with my MacBook Pro w/Intel and with iMovie/iDVD. I don't know what the difference is between the two, but a Geek friend said that the camcorder should be compatible with both. Any suggestions?
Also, I have a Roland EM-2000 MIDI keyboard that I'd like to hook up to the laptop and use via the GB. I'd to make some audio books for my listening center. I figured if I could do this with GB, burn the CD, and then I could play it in the boom box for the students. I was told I'd need a MIDI to USB Interface converter w/cables. Someone mentioned M-Audio.
Any help you could give would be most appreciative.
Lisa FL

Lisa (me KarSTen ... male...)
you've posted in the iMHD =iLife5) section of this board.. make sure, you teach yourself the correct version... actual version is iLife6...
for iLife5, some downloads:
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iMovieAtAGlance.pdf
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iMovieLesson1.pdf
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iMovieLesson2.pdf
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iMovieLesson3.pdf
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iMovieLesson4.pdf
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iMovieLesson5.pdf
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iMovieLesson6.pdf
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iMovieLesson7.pdf

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