This document provides ideas for using the software Photostory 3 in classroom instruction, including having students: create photostories to teach concepts they are learning; introduce themselves and summarize what they have learned; do projects with added narration; reflect on experiences like the end of primary school; make stories, readers, or depictions of events using pictures and narration; demonstrate processes or explanations of topics through photostories. It includes several example links of student-created photostories.

1. Ideas for classroom use of
Photostory 3 for Windows
By Fiona Beal
fionabeal@gmail.com

2. This teacher from Nigeria
created a Maths photostory to
teach his students Maths

3. You could create a photostory of
something you are trying to teach
Grammar Photostory on Assonance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1Bs6ej5yO0

4. You can ask groups to introduce
themselves and summarise
what they have been learning.
http://schoolnetsa.blogspot.com/2011/11/pee
r-coaching-in-bloemfontein.html

5. Photostory is great for doing a
project with added narration
4th Grade Earth Science- Erosion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyGy5C-x1ao

6. You could use Photostory for Grade 7s
to reflect on their final year at primary
school
Primary School Days
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTqjFMQiLbY&feature=related

7. You can get the learners to make up or
relate a story and use drawings or find
pictures on the internet.
Goldilocks and the three pigs

8. You could make little readers with
narration with your class.
Little Pig Is Flying" - Year 2's Photostory
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zXq9Z3qzlk&feature=related
Montage

9. Your students could make a photostory with
narration of a camp or an outing in groups
A visit to St. Augustine - sample of Photo Story 3 movie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1K8sNyjiaQ

10. Your students could narrate about a
time in history as though they were
actually there.
Sacagawea Photo Story
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JViO8m7BXqI

11. Create a excerpt from a book using
Photostory 3
Act Two Photostory: Perfect example
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbCGvXXguRM

12. Create a book trailer in Photostory 3
Creating Book Trailers in Photo Story 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6Oxf_6lmVs

13. They could introduce themselves in a
Photostory
"My Home" by 13 Year Old Australian Middle
http://udl4all.pbworks.com/w/page/7372165/Examples%20
of%20Classroom%20Uses%20of%20Photo%20Story%203

14. The learners could give a
demonstration of something using
Photostory 3