Digital Storytelling with Photo Story 3

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Digital Storytelling

* What is the digital storytelling? “Digital Storytelling is the modern expres-

sion of the ancient art of storytelling. Digital stories derive their power by weaving images, music, narrative and voice together, thereby giving deep di-mension and vivid color to characters, situations, experiences, and insights. Tell your story now digitally.”

- Leslie Rule, Center for Digital Storytelling

Digital Storytelling

• Digital storytelling has arisen as a form of narrative expression that is crafted into a media production.

• Combining the art of telling stories with some mixture of digital graph-ics, text, recorded audio narration, video and music to present infor-mation on a specific topic.

An Effective Tool for Teachers• Stories Created by Teach-

ers Can Serve• As a Lesson Hook• As a Way to Integrate

Multimedia into the Cur-riculum

• As a Way to Make Diffi-cult Content More Un-derstandable

• To Facilitate Classroom Discussion

An Effective Learning Tool for Students

• Research Skills• Writing Skills• Organization Skills• Technology Skills• Presentation Skills• Interview Skills• Interpersonal Skills• Problem-Solving Skills• Assessment Skills

Student Literacy

• Digital Literacy• Global Literacy• Technology Literacy• Visual Literacy• Information Literacy

Tools for Creating Digital Stories

• Microsoft Photo Story• Apple iMovie• Microsoft PowerPoint• Macromedia Flash• Many other software

options

Image Search Engines• Google • Picssearch • AltaVistaAudio Search Engines• AltaVista• Singing Fish

Photo Story 3 for Window 7

• Photostory is a free software package you can download from Microsoft.

• You can create slideshows using your digital photos. You can tune up your photo slides with your own voice narration.

Steps to publish Photo Story 3

• Step 1. Download Microsoft Photo Story for free and activate Photostory 3

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx

• Step 2. Double-click Photo Story icon.

• Step 3. Select “Begin a new story”, and click NEXT.

Steps to publish Photo Story 3

• Step 4. Import Images.

Steps to publish Photo Story 3

• Step 5. Select the images you would like to by clicking on them.

Steps to publish Photo Story 3

• Step 6. Select a photo and edit it.

Steps to publish Photo Story 3

Steps to publish Photo Story 3• Step 7. Record Narra-

tion and Customize Mo-tion and Transitions.

Steps to publish Photo Story 3• Step 8: Add Background

Music.

• Step 9: Save your story.

Steps to publish Photo Story 3

• Step 10: Publish your story.

Steps to publish Photo Story 3

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