Welcome!+Overview+for+Using+Photo+Story+3+for+Lit+Projects

=Creating Literature Extensions using Microsoft Photo Story 3 for Windows XP= I have had very good experience using Photo Story with teachers and students. Photo Story 3 is a free download from Microsoft. []

Just type in Photo Story in the search box then follow directions to download the program. Any picture file (jpeg, gif, tiff) can be uploaded into Photo Story. Photo Story has options for transitions, some motion, and some text. You can add music or voice recording. It is very simple and saves as a wmv file for easy viewing by others regardless of whether or not they have Photo Story on their computer.


 * TIPS!** If you choose for students to draw pictures to scan into Photo Story, be sure they fill the entire page with color and art. Students can definitely be taought how to help each other (and you!) with scanning and saving as well as uploading the pictures to photo story.

You can make a slide in Power Point and save it as a jpeg or gif file and then import that into Photo Story. That allows for extra flexibilty for title pages, credits or other inserts where you want more variation that Photo Story provides.

To view sample Photo Stories I have creaed please click on the Photo Story Projects page from the menu to the left.