Digital Story Telling
Microsoft Photo Story 3
Benefits of Digital Story Telling
Improved writing and organizational skills
Adds variety to learning resources and experiences
Provides evidence of authentic learning
Reaches any age group and skill level (low literacy, ELL, special ed.)
What Makes A Good Digital Story
- A single message
- Use short stories
- Illustrate with images, text and audio
Student Samples
Photo Story 3 sample movie
The Yellow Tailed Woolly Monkey (PhotoStory example)
Student PhotoStory
Tips To Get Started
- Prepare script
- Keep sequences logical
- Crop images to main point in photo (remove distractions)
- 3 minute length
- Use special effects to support story
- Technology is second to the message
Points About Photo Story 3
- Free download
- Requires Windows XP or later to operate
- Requires Windows Media Player 10 to download
- Has red-eye, reduction, image rotation, automatic black border removal, cropping,
- audio narrative, text
- 48 slides transition to choose from
- Custom motion control
- Create own background music or import external files
- WMV file
Email: elizebeth.buckingham@fortbend.k12.tx.us
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Phone: 281-327-7481
Practice making Photo Story
Download Photo Story 3
Create a story about the 3 Little Pigs from link
Edit story with the features
Classroom Uses
- Retelling a story from field trip, book report, history or timeline
- Unit assessment
- Teacher's lessons (students listen better to videos)
- Other ideas, click on this link