Photo Story 3

Presented by

Barbara McLaughlin & Teresa Harrison

Business & Learning Technologies

Workshop Objectives

This workshop will:

Introduce you to Photo Story 3

Look at Photo Story 3 software

Give you an opportunity to produce a Photo Story

Workshop Agenda

1. Intro and Demonstration of Photo Story 3Netcaster

2. File Management: Create workshop folders

3. Software Check: Photo Story 3

4. Hands-on with Photo Story 3Create a Photo Story with your images

Storytelling

Storytelling is an ancient art and has evolved from word of mouth

Today we can tell stories using software &

multimedia to create powerful presentations.

This format would be known as:

Digital Storytelling

What is Photo Story 3?

Presentation software Uses a wizard format to assist the user to create

the presentation. Wizard allows import of pictures, & then sound,

text, effects and transitions can be added to the pictures.

Free software from Microsoft Used predominantly for Digital Storytelling

Photo Story 3 Tools

Software, such as Photo Story 3 allows us to add:

Graphics Titles Narration (you can add the narration) Motion and Transitions (and you can customize) Sound

Photo Story 3 Demo

There are many good teaching videos available

http://jdps.edublogs.org/ Shannon Smith

Sharing with Netcaster

Publish your completed masterpieces at our OCDSB Digital Showcase blt.ocdsb.ca/netcaster.ca

Resources

• Flickr allows you to use an Advance search for non-copyrighted free photos www.flickr.com

• Music is available from freeplaymusic.com

What if I Need Help?

o Consult your documentation

o Hotline is your next point of contact

o Available as support to you for:o Technical difficulties

o Questions about using Photo Story 3

o Contact Hotline via email or phoneo Email: hotline@ocdsb.ca

o Phone: 596-8273

Participation Certificate• Indicate Yes or No on the sign-in sheet• Will be emailed to you in PDF format

Get Organized!

1. Create a folder on your H: drive for this workshop called “Photo Story Workshop”

Start > My Document >File >New Folder.

A New folder will appear.

To rename: Backspace “New Folder” (in blue) and type

“Photo Story Workshop” 2. Double-click (open) your folder “Photo Story

Workshop” and create 3 new folders. Name them “Images”, “Project” and “Publish”

File Type is Important

• This file type indicates a project file and will open to the wizard.

• File type is .wp3 and goes in “Project”

• This file type indicates a file that is complete and ready to play.

• File type is .wmv and goes in “Publish”

Software Check

1. Start

2. All Programs

● First check to see if Photo Story 3 is already installed

Photo Story 3

Software Installation● If you didn’t see Photo Story 3

within “All Programs” you will need to install it:

1. Start

2. All Programs

3. Installers

4. Photo Story 3

Hands On Time

• Please open Photo Story 3 and create your Photo Story.

• Remember to keep all your Workshop files in the folder we created:

Photo Story WorkshopImagesProjectPublish