
From Digital Storytelling to Film Festival By Barb Trudeau
What is MS Photo Story 3? • Free download for Windows XP users • Requires Windows Media Player 10 • Very user friendly – Step by Step • A lot like PowerPoint – more pizazz • Each Photo Story file allows up to 300 photos • File extensions - .pmp, .dib, .dib, .eps, .gif, .jhif, .jpe, .jpg, .pcd, .pcx, .png, .psd, .rle, .tga, and .tif • Teachers and students create powerful and exciting presentations • Enhance and accelerate the learning process
What Will I Learn Today • Learn how to make presentations unique and personal • Learn how to import pictures • Learn how to add special effects, music, and other professional touches to enhance digital photos • Record voice commentary to describe photos
Ways to Use Photo Story 3 • Introduce new curriculum • Create artifacts for electronic portfolios • Compare and contrast photos as an art form • Construct visual tutorials for complex technology • Design projects and WebQuests • Produce a visual archive of classroom activities • Build multimedia visuals for reading and math concepts • Record the steps and results of scientific experiments • Podcasting tool • If absent, Photo Story your assignments
Curriculum Possibilities • Science/Health • The Planets • Bird Identification • Water cycles, Life cycles • Human body • Math concepts • Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division Tables • Social Studies/History • timeline of battles, decades, digital documentaries, timelines of famous people, states and countries • Art • student art work • Literature/Language Arts • Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, mythology, poetry, book reports, and holidays (Christmas)
Summary • Photo Story 3 is a quick, easy fun way to transform your still photos into moving slide shows for playback over the Web, in DVD players, in PowerPoint presentations and more.