PhotoStory+Workshop

=PhotoStory 3 Agenda=

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 * 1) **Introductions**
 * 2) **What is PhotoStory3** [|Free Download]
 * 3) **Citing Sources**
 * 1) **Share Holocaust Example**
 * 2) Getting Started - Create a video together
 * Create/name a folder for the project
 * create folder for PPT slides [Demo how to create .jpegs from PowerPoint slides]
 * create folder for images
 * create document for sources to site
 * create document for narrations script

The PhotoStory Wizard


 * Create a new story button**


 * Import images**
 * Hold Shift key to select mulitple images to import.
 * Click/Hold/Drag to reorder images
 * Edit images. See button under preview window. (color,red eye, rotation, crop, add effect, remove black borders)
 * Add titles or captions to images (see format options

Add effects if need. (see under preview window)

Narrate pictures and customize motion**

In the Customize Motion dialog box, you can also do one or more of the following: ·  Specify the number of seconds that a picture without narration is displayed when your story is played. The settings you specify in this dialog box only apply to the selected picture. ·  Specify whether a picture starts playing with a transition, and select the transition. ·  Specify the number of seconds that a transition is displayed when your story is played. The settings you specify in this dialog box only apply to the selected picture. ·  You can also customize motion and select transitions on the Narrate your pictures and customize motion and Add background music pages by right-clicking a picture, pointing to Customize Motion, and then clicking Motion, Duration, or Transition

**Select or Create Music**

 * Preview
 * Save Project (anytime)

**Save Story**

 * Save for playback for your computer
 * Specify where to save it
 * NEXT > Build Story

NOW YOU ARE READY TO CREATE YOUR OWN VIDEO!!

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PHOTOSTORY LINKS Digital StoryTelling http://www.coe.uh.edu/digitalstorytelling/ Tutorial http://www.techlearning.com/story/showArticle.php?articleID=196604105

Ideas: Some ideas that have been used in the classroom range from introducing the Planets to Bird Identification. Other ideas address all levels of the curriculum including: water cycles, life cycles, history (i.e.-timeline of battles, decades, digital documentaries, timelines of famous people), art (student art work), literature (Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, mythology, poetry), and holidays (Christmas).

Excellent .pdf http://www.coe.uh.edu/digitalstorytelling/PhotoStory3-Tutorials/PhotoStoryTutorial.pdf