Two Hour Workshop on Photostory 3:
What is Photostory 3 and why should I use it?
- free software for storytelling
- listening, speaking, viewing
- cross-curricular
- provides visual, auditory, with captions
- doesn’t require special equipment (uses computer with internet, you may use your own scanned images, or credit Google images)
Review examples:
The Isadore (historical story)
March of the Penguins (from UK, 11 year old)
Math Photostory (surface area)
On the Farm (year 3 students, maybe 9 years old?)
Ms. Oren’s Resource students’ Photostory projects (assignment to include literary elements such as “setting”, “protagonist” on a class novel…forgive the grammar, spelling, etc)
Resources:
Tutorial: http://www.jakesonline.org/photostory3.pdf
Create videos with Free Photostory 3 by Bill Myers
Photo Story Directions in PPT format
Learn features (SAVE EARLY, SAVE OFTEN!!!):
1. Locate images (using search engine or create your own), import images, remove black borders, rotate imagery, simple photo editing
- Google image search “large images”
- PPT: save slide as JPEG
- “Blank slides” for title and Reference slides
2. Add titles and add effects to your imagery
3. Add narration to each individual slide, customize motion by adding transitions, pans and zooms, set the amount of time for each image, and preview your movie.
- Customizing Motion:
- Transitions: Just because you can does not mean you should. Keep it simple.
4. Add background music
- Create music: mp3 music files can be obtained at freeplaymusic.com or ccmixter.org.
- Select music: Be sure to adjust the volume of the music track
5. Save your story: Complete your movie. This process is known as “rendering” and converts the raw Photostory 3 file into a Windows Media Player file. This is an obvious advantage-any PC typically has Windows Media Player installed (machines would typically not have Photostory 3), so that the completed digital story can be played on virtually any machine.
Try it yourself!
Saving Phototstory:
- “Save Project”: the “project file” can be quite large. Plan to use quite a bit of memory on saving the files as students work on the project (Bulloch County has a “homer” file for each student where they can store their work each day.
- “Save your story for playback on your computer”: The final Photostory takes less space and will need to be saved as a final project. This will “render” to a movie which cannot be edited.
Rubrics:
search Rubistar Multimedia Rubrics
Educational Professional Development by L. Oren 