Photostory3 Software

1. Welcome to Photo Story 3 for
Windows
Done by: Abdullah MohammedAl-Hajri 87174
Aamer Mohammed Al-Hajri 86845
To : Dr Alaa Sadik

2. Outline:
 Definition.
 Target learners.
 Objectives.
 Teacher roles.
 Student roles.
 Technical features.
 Benefits.
 Limitations.

3. Screenshot

4. What is it?
 Photo Story 3 is a free presentation tool for
creating digital stories with photos, text,
transitions, audio narration and background
music. It is a modern day version of show and
tell or story telling.

5. Which year levels can use it
and which subject areas?
 The software is suitable to be used in all
learning areas where students want or need
to present information, pictures and audio.
The only limitation is that R-2 would probably
benefit from teacher led, whole class
projects, to familiarize them with the variety
of options and steps. It is also a great tool for
teachers to use to introduce lessons or units
of work.

6. Objectives of Photostory software
 importing pictures from anywhere and do anything wanted
 Change the appearance by rotating/cropping/editing the
pictures
 Adjusting the color
 Fixing the red eye
 Adding special effects
 Adding titles to pictures
 Narrating pictures by recording own voice
 Adding background music
 Saving and view photo story
 Correcting the lighting in pictures and many more features.

7. Objectives Learning
 Students should:
 Import and arrange their pictures.
 Add a titles/captions/credits.
 Narrate their pictures and customize motion
 Add background music.
 Export their stories.

8. Teacher’s role in using software
 One of the most important role for teacher
in this software isTo assure that students love
the software. Endears the software to
students.
 Bring a ready project of this software.
 Teaching students practical steps from
downloading the software, setup it until
making project fully.

9. Student’s role in using software
Design andTech- Students could critique a
product and explain how they would improve
it through photos and text.They could also
have a photo story of the process taken in
creating a model of a new product.

10. Another screenshot

12. Technical Features of software
 Obvious improvements.
 Photo editing.
 Adding effects.
 Removing the borders: Auto crop
functionality.
 Captions and titles.
 New narration capabilities.

13. Benefits of software
 Easy to use
 Trouble shooting in simple
language
 Story can be burned to a
VCD or DVD for viewing
 Photo Story program is not
required to view story on
other PC’s or mobile
devices
 Program will import many
file types (ex:
.bmp,.gif,.jpeg,.jpg, .pcx,
.tga, .tif)
 Photos can be imported
from computer folders and
MSN groups

14. Benefits…con’t
 Each picture can feature up
to five minutes of narration
 Motion effects (pan and
zoom) can be customized
 Story can include as many
songs as desired
 Songs can come from
computer files or be
chosen from the Photo
Story collection
 Good effects (ex: B&W,
sepia, colored pencil,
washout, watercolor)
 Up to 1024 characters can
be added per picture
 Background music can be
added, and narration over
top

15.  Photo Story is not supported on the
Windows 7 platform.
 Unable to draw freely on photos as in
applications such as paint
 Cropping the black border does not work with all
web images
Limitations:

16.  Windows Media Player is required
 No ‘fun’ enhancements for altering the
picture (ex. Distort image).
 Pictures must be 4:3 aspect ratio.

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