Digital Storytelling with PhotoStory

Presenter: Rick Bell

HS Neptune Lab (114)

PhotoStory is a free program used to create a digital slideshow. The software allows you to insert pictures, transitions, record narration, and background music. Participants are asked to bring curriculum materials to create a PhotoStory that can be used to introduce a unit or displayed as a student project example.

Workshop links, resources, and/or materials:

• What is Digital Storytelling? What is PhotoStory?
  • Worktime: Create a PhotoStory
• What is the process of Digital Storytelling?
  • PhotoStory Outline.docx
  • PickUp-DropOff Folders-Student.doc
  • Digital Storytelling Process.doc
  • PhotoStory.doc
  • Images for PhotoStory.doc
• How can it be used in the classroom?
  • How do you do that?
    • Worktime: Looking at samples
      • madison.wmv 
      • Geo4Life - Disney world.wmv
      • Geo4Life - Spain.wmv
      • NP History - St. Wenceslaus Parish.wmv
      • NP History - hospital.wmv
  • Worktime: Find a way to incorporate into your classroom
    • Assessment
      • Rubrics

         http://rubistar.4teachers.org 

    • Intro to lesson/unit
    • Celebration
  • How do you do that?
    • Create goals for a lesson/project
  • Take a look at the resources
    • Educational Uses of Digital StoryTelling  http://www.coe.uh.edu/digitalstorytelling/default.htm 
    • The Art of Digital StoryTelling   http://digitales.us/
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