Tired of Repeating Yourself ... and repeating yourself? ... and …

1. Tired of Repeating Yourself ... and repeating yourself? ... and … Presented by Cindi Bolton cbolton@mckinneyisd.net and fellow McKinney ISD Teachers and Library Media Specialists

2. Introduction • Who we are and what we do … • McKinney ISD

3. What is Photo Story 3? • One of Microsoft's best kept secrets! • Create slideshows • Photo editing within the program • Special effects • Music and voice narration • Fairly small files you can e-mail, watch on your TV, computer, or on a Windows Mobile–based portable device. • FREE

4. How can you use Photo Story 3? • Library or class orientation • Teacher or unit introduction • Instructional Video / Tutorial • Photo Sharing • Open House • Digital Storytelling

5. When you open Photo Story 3 , you will choose one option. Begin a new story, Edit a project, Play a story, or Continue working on the current story Click the radio button for the option you choose.

6. Importing, Editing, & Arranging Pictures

7. For each story you can import up to 300 pictures .bmp, .dib, .eps, .gif, .jhif, .jpe, .jpeg, .jpg, .pcd, .pcx, .png, .psd, .rle, .tga, .tif Helpful Hint: create a folder and save all images you might use for a project in that one folder. Highlight all the pictures you plan to use and click OK. You can import all pictures at one time if you want.

8. Helpful Hint:Save Often! Once you have imported pictures save your project

9. The first time you save your project, you will need to give it a name and decide where to save it. Save as a project file (default) so you can continue to work.

10. Images are all imported into a storyboard. Simply click and drag the images to arrange them in any order. Or use the arrow to move pictures one space at a time

11. Once you have arranged your images there are several options for editing the pictures. Edit Pictures Remove black borders

12. Edit Pictures Rotate or Crop your pictures.

13. Edit Pictures

14. Edit Pictures

15. Reminder: Save Often!

16. Titles & Effects

17. Simply type your text into the textbox Tools to format your text.

18. PowerPoint Slide

19. There are other options for changing the appearance of your images. Effects Bar

20. Adding Narration

21. Any Microphone will work • Built in Microphone on your computer/laptop • Logitech USB Desktop Microphone • USB Stereo Headset

22. If the sound card on your computer is not configured to record from a microphone, Photo Story may be unable to record narration. In this case, Photo Story prompts you to configure the sound card to record from a microphone. This change may affect other recording programs

23. Record up to five minutes of narration for each picture! Record Button Stop Recording Delete Narration Text box for notes! Preview slide with narration

24. Adding Custom Motion

25. Custom Motion Button This number tells you how long the narration lasts for that slide.

26. Specify the start and end positions of motion Set end and start to same position – no slide movement How long do you want the slide to run? Preview slide

27. Slide transitions can be determined by the program or by you.

28. Adding Background Music

29. Select Music: Choose music you have saved on you computer. File types: .wma, .mp3, .wav Create Music: with music that comes with the program.

30. Choices include Genre, Style, Bands and Moods You can even set the Tempo and Intensity of the music.

31. Shows when music will play

32. Saving Your Story Reminder: Save Often!

33. Choose where to save your story. The default path is to save in “My Documents,” “My Videos” as “PhotoStory1.wmv”

34. After clicking NEXT, the program builds your story. This can take a few minutes, especially if you have included narration and music.

35. File Name Location Size

36. This icon is the project only. It is a Photo Story .wp3 file. This icon is the movie. It is a .wmv file.

37. Watching Your Movie

38. Completed movies will open in Windows Media Player.

39. Images and Photos Images, Audio, and Video Clips: http://www.djusd.k12.ca.us/technology/images.htm Freeplay Music http://freeplaymusic.com/ Pics for Learning: http://pics.tech4learning.com/ Wikipedia Public Domain Image Resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_domain_image_resources

40. Extra Fun

41. Create Pictures from PowerPoint Slides

44. TweakPS for Photo Storyhttp://www.windowsphotostory.com/TweakPS/ This is a utility that can do global changes to the duration of all pictures in a saved PS3 project file, remove the motion settings, remove all transitions, or randomize the sequence the pictures display. Note that the utility is limited to tweaking PS3 files of less than 300 MB in size, and runs only on Windows XP. If you try one larger than that and get a message about it being corrupt when you open it in Photo Story 3, it's because the tweaked project is missing one or more parts.

45. Combine multiple student PS3 shows into 1 Import the completed Photo Story 3 .wmv files into Movie Maker! drag them to the timeline and save as a single .wmv. To save as a .wmv movie file... Type...Ctrl+P to open the Save Movie Wizard / Choose...My Computer / Next / Enter a Name and a Save Location / Next / Tick...'Best Quality For My Computer' Next/ Wait while the movie is saved / Finish...

46. Cool Links • Digital Storytelling Rubric http://www.umass.edu/wmwp/DigitalStorytelling/Rubric%20Assessment.htm • Sample Storyboard http://www.umass.edu/wmwp/DigitalStorytelling/Storyboard.htm