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| Using Photo Story to Put a Digital Spin on Projects |
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by Linda Redding and Vicki Wright Students completing research projects in the Silver Lake Regional School District have put a digital spin on Collaboration between the classroom teacher and library teacher has been key to the success of the projects. Students spend class time in the library researching their topics and then putting together their Photo Story. Once the students have completed their research, it’s time to map out their Photo Story by completing a storyboard. It is helpful to have students create a storyboard before using Photo Story. The storyboard gives a great visual on how the project will look. Space on the storyboard allows the student to write narration to go along with the picture, making it easier to record the narration when the times come.
Completed projects can be viewed on the computer, downloaded to a CD, or placed on a flashdrive. They may even be uploaded to a website. Not only do students find Photo Story a great way to do a presentation, the guidance department at Silver Lake Regional Middle School created their own Photo Story Middle Ground. Visit the Silver Lake Regional Middle Ground Sample of a Photo Story created by the SLRMS Guidance Staff Photo Story Storyboard Sample Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History Teaching Digital History, a workshop that explores how to use Photo Story and use documentaries in the classroom, is one of the offerings for the summer of 2009
Linda Redding, is the Library Teacher at Silver Lake Regional High School |
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| Last Updated ( Sunday, 18 January 2009 ) |
their presentations with the use of Photo Story, a free download from Microsoft. Projects have ranged from public service announcements highlighting topics discussed in health class to book talks to social studies documentary projects. 
Photo Story takes the students step-by-step through the process of building their project. Students first are directed to load their photos. Pictures may come from the Internet, camera, or scanned. PowerPoint Slides may be saved as jpgs and imported into Photo Story too. A good tip is to have the students save all pictures in one folder. Text can be added to any of the pictures and there are choices for font and transitions between each picture. Narration can then be added over pictures and a sound track created using the built in music or by uploading music from another source. 
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