PhotoStory

= = =Microsoft Photo Story=

Microsoft **Photo Story** is a free application that allows users to create a show and tell presentation from their digital photos. The software uses the Ken Burns Effect on digital photos and allows adding narration, effects, transitions and background music to create a Windows Media Video movie file with pan and zoom effects.


 * Podcasting using Microsoft Photo Story**

//Digital Storytelling is the modern expression of the ancient art of storytelling. Digital stories derive their power by weaving images, music, narrative and voice together, thereby giving deep dimension and vivid color to characters, situations, experiences, and insights. Tell your story now digitally.// ~ Leslie Rule, Center for Digital Storytelling

Photo Story allows the user to gather images, narrate them with voice, or add background music to complete a story/podcast. Photo Story allows you to do the following with your images:
 * Create slideshows using your digital photos.
 * Add stunning special effects, soundtracks, and your own voice narration to your photo stories. Then, personalize them with titles and captions.
 * Small file sizes make it easy to send your photo stories in an email or post on your web site. Watch them on your TV, a computer, or a Windows Mobile–based portable device.

Please have available the following materials:
 * Digital pictures (.jpg or .gif files) that you’d like to use for this project. Please bring them on a flash drive or have them available on a drive that you can access from the EDC (example the H:, S:, or W: Drives).

Photo Story 3 Step by Step Guide - [|A Step by Step Guide to Photostory.pdf]

**Resources:**
PowerPoint Presentation Handout - [|Podcasting.pdf]

Sample 1: Rubric for Student Evaluation [|SamplePodcastRubricForStudentEvals.pdf] [|Podcast rubric for student evals.doc]

Sample 2: Rubric for Student Evaluation [|Sample Rubric.pdf] [|Sample Rubric.docx]