Creating multimedia stories
I know that it's easy to be cynical about Microsoft, but every now and then they do produce great things for free! Photo Story 3 is one of those great things, and yes it is free!
Photo Story 3 a piece of free software that you can download to your PC and use to create multimedia photo stories complete with images, transitions, effects, text, background music and your own voice narration.
I know there are a lot of online Web 2.0 ap that do all of this too, but for those of us with slower, unreliable or more expensive connections, it's nice to have a bit of software that can do the job for us without using any bandwidth at all (apart from downloading it of course).
You should be able to download Photo Story 3 from here.
It's a 5 Mb download, so that shouldn't take too long even over a dial up connection.
How to use this with students
You can use it to create multimedia materials for your students, whether is for use in class or to take home for homework. Here's some things you can do:
Having software like this that can produce a professional looking end product can be really motivating for students and really help them to push themselves to produce accurate polished work. Here's some things you can get your students to do:
It's ideal for presenting the results of project work.
Photo Story 3 a piece of free software that you can download to your PC and use to create multimedia photo stories complete with images, transitions, effects, text, background music and your own voice narration.
- Here's a 2 minute Flash movie showing you how to use it and some of the features.
- Here is a movie I created with it to show off my Second Life office. There are two versions
- Silent with better image quality (2.1 Mb wmv)
- Lower quality one with music (500k wmv)
I know there are a lot of online Web 2.0 ap that do all of this too, but for those of us with slower, unreliable or more expensive connections, it's nice to have a bit of software that can do the job for us without using any bandwidth at all (apart from downloading it of course).
You should be able to download Photo Story 3 from here.
It's a 5 Mb download, so that shouldn't take too long even over a dial up connection.
How to use this with students
You can use it to create multimedia materials for your students, whether is for use in class or to take home for homework. Here's some things you can do:
- Create some narratives for them to view
- Create narratives which illustrate grammar points
Having software like this that can produce a professional looking end product can be really motivating for students and really help them to push themselves to produce accurate polished work. Here's some things you can get your students to do:
It's ideal for presenting the results of project work.
- Get the students to take photographs and upload them to tell their own stories to the class
- What they do each day
- What they did at the weekend / on holiday
- Stories about their family
- Get some pictures from Flickr and get the students to order them and create a story around them.
- It's free
- Easy to use and quick to learn
- Really liked some of the filter effects
- Liked the way you can easily create a wide range of background musics
- File sizes were quite reasonable and exports pretty easily for a number of different devices
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