Photostory

**What is Photo Story?**

 * Photo S**tory is a free software program used to create customized slideshows with digital images, text, music and voice narration. Photos can be edited and touched up using this program. Published photo stories have small file sizes and can be shared via e-mail, played on the computer using Windows Media Player, played on portable devices, or uploaded on various sits (e.g. wiki). Photo Story can be downloaded for free from [|Microsoft].

** How Photo Story Supports Learning  **

 * Supports project-based learning
 * Supports critical and creative thinking
 * Helps strengthens visual literacy skills
 * Promotes differentiated instruction, multiple intelligences and learning styles
 * Motivates and engages learners
 * Video format allows students to address a larger audience

 Getting Started

 *  Open Photo Story and [|import photos]
 *  [|Edit photos]
 *  [|Add titles]
 *  [|Add voice narration]
 *  Change [|motion] and [|transitions]
 *  Add [|music]
 *  Preview and [|save]story
 *  Other tutorials include: Microsoft [|tutorial]; David Jakes' Photo Story [|tutorial]
 *  See [|tutorial]on how to burn photo stories to DVD

