iLife and iWork for schools

This little gem of a link popped up on a mailing list I subscribe to.

Apple – Education – iLife and iWork K-12 School Site License

To celebrate our 30-year commitment to education, Apple is introducing K-12 site licenses for both iLife and iWork. At just $319* for either suite, your students gain access to the best tools to prepare them for life and work using critical 21st century skills.

We already have Office 2008 for Mac so iWork may not be necessary but we’ll definitely upgrade our iLife suite. That said, I have been trialling Office 2008 on my machine and it has not been as responsive as I would have liked. I seriously have to have Excel so I will put up with some grief there but MSWord is unresponsive for the first 5 minutes of use which annoys the pants off me (metaphorically) somewhat.

We had machines delivered at the beginning of the year with iLife ’08 standard so it would be super nice to bring the 10.4.11 machines in line. GarageBand 4 is sweet!