Primary Digital Primary Digital StorytellingStorytelling

Kelly ManzanoKelly ManzanoEanes I.S.D.Eanes I.S.D.

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Digital Literacy in the Digital Literacy in the Elementary ClassroomElementary Classroom

Photo Story 3 for Windows – Free Photo Story 3 for Windows – Free download from Microsoft. (Sorry, no download from Microsoft. (Sorry, no Mac version.)Mac version.)

Example: 100 Day Collections with Photos

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Steps to build your story:Steps to build your story:

Import and Arrange PicturesImport and Arrange Pictures

Options:Options:

You can adjust:Color Levels,Black and White, Watercolors,Crop, Correct Red Eye, andPicture Rotation

Add TitlesAdd Titles

Change fonts, position on the page and alignment.

Type in text that you want to appear on the slide.

Example: Example: Watermelons in MayWatermelons in May

Used KidPix and exported the pictures as jpgs.

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Narrate PicturesNarrate Pictures

Let the children record the audio for the page.

You can preview, delete and rerecord as necessary.

Recording Tip:Recording Tip:

Use a microphone that plugs into the Use a microphone that plugs into the computer. The microphone on the computer. The microphone on the computer will pick up background noise.computer will pick up background noise.

Customize MotionCustomize Motion

You can choose You can choose the start and the start and end position.end position.

You can set the You can set the duration of the duration of the slide. It can slide. It can automatically automatically follow the follow the recording time.recording time.

Don’t forget to Don’t forget to

SAVESAVE

your project your project

along the way!along the way!

Slide TransitionsSlide Transitions

48 different ways.

The favorites in my class are Bowtie, Flips and Page Curls.

Example: Example: The Very Hungry TurkeyThe Very Hungry Turkey

(Modeled after Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar.)

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Add Background MusicAdd Background Music

PhotoStory has some built in music or you can import music of your choice.

Create MusicCreate Music

To create the music from PhotoStory, select the genre, style, band and mood. Tempo and intensity can be selected to enhance the story.

Play the music to see if it fits with the story.

Shows the musicShows slide transitions

Indicates recording

The story can be previewed at any time.

Save for Playback on ComputerSave for Playback on Computer

The story will save as a .wmv file.

**The file cannot be changed after it is saved in this step.

The file can also be saved and converted to a format compatible with Ipods. One program that converts it is Cucusoft.

Example: My favorite! Here’s an original story Example: My favorite! Here’s an original story based on the Black Lagoon books by Mike based on the Black Lagoon books by Mike Thaler. Thaler.

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I took photos of the children, printed them and the children drew a picture around them to go with the text. The pictures were scanned in as jpgs.

* Fun ending – We emailed Mike Thaler about our story. He emailed us back with encouragement to write more stories and read more of his books!http://www.mikethaler.com/index.html

Other Ideas:Other Ideas:

Patterns: We took pictures with digital cameras. The children will record: I see a pattern on the ____ .

Heavier and Lighter: A ____ is heavier than a ____ .

Growing Beans or any Science Project: Take pictures of the lima bean plants and narrate.

What other ideas do you have?

Resources:Resources:

Kids, Cameras, and the Curriculum: Kids, Cameras, and the Curriculum: Focusing on Learning in the Primary Focusing on Learning in the Primary GradesGrades By Pat Barrett Dragan

Primary Digital Primary Digital StorytellingStorytelling

Kelly ManzanoKelly ManzanoEanes I.S.D.Eanes I.S.D.

kmanzano@eanesisd.netkmanzano@eanesisd.nethttp://primarydigitalstorytelling.pbwiki.com/ http://primarydigitalstorytelling.pbwiki.com/