Creating Multimedia Stories

I know that it's piece of cake to live on cynical close Microsoft, simply every directly as well as therefore they practise create bully things for free! Photo Story iii is 1 of those bully things, as well as yeah it is free!

Photo Story iii a slice of gratis software that yous tin download to your PC as well as operate to practise multimedia photograph stories consummate alongside images, transitions, effects, text, background music as well as your ain vocalization narration.

• Here's a 2 infinitesimal Flash movie showing yous how to operate it as well as some of the features.
• Here is a painting present I created alongside it to present off my Second Life office. There are ii versions
• Silent alongside ameliorate prototype character (2.1 Mb wmv)
• Lower character 1 alongside music (500k wmv)

I know in that location are a lot of online Web 2.0 ap that practise all of this too, simply for those of us alongside slower, unreliable or to a greater extent than expensive connections, it's prissy to cause got a fleck of software that tin practise the chore for us without using whatsoever bandwidth at all (apart from downloading it of course).

You should live on able to download Photo Story iii from here.
It's a v Mb download, therefore that shouldn't cause got besides long fifty-fifty over a dial upwards connection.

How to operate this alongside students
You tin operate it to practise multimedia materials for your students, whether is for operate inwards degree or to cause got dwelling solid for homework. Here's some things yous tin do:

• Create some narratives for them to view
• Create narratives which illustrate grammer points
• Create a serial of pictures as well as words which illustrate dissimilar sounds from the Phonemic alphabet

Having software similar this that tin create a professional person looking terminate production tin live on actually motivating for students as well as actually aid them to force themselves to create accurate polished work. Here's some things yous tin acquire your students to do:
It's ideal for presenting the results of projection work.

• Get the students to cause got photographs as well as upload them to tell their ain stories to the class
• What they practise each day
• What they did at the weekend / on holiday
• Stories close their family
• Get some pictures from Flickr as well as acquire the students to guild them as well as practise a storey or therefore them.

What I liked close it

• It's free
• Easy to operate as well as quick to learn
• Really liked some of the filter effects
• Liked the way yous tin easily practise a broad gain of background musics
• File sizes were quite reasonable as well as exports pretty easily for a seat out of dissimilar devices

What I wasn't therefore keen on

• It's a shame that it's therefore express inwards the the formats that it exports to (mainly dissimilar sizes of wmv) , simply I approximate in that location are enough of converters yous could operate if yous wanted to modify it for an i-pod or something similar that.
• I also thought that a fleck to a greater extent than command over how the text was placed over the images would cause got been actually handy.
• There's no version for MAC of course, simply if yous cause got a MAC yous won't ask this every bit yous acquire lots of prissy stuff that does all this for yous ready installed when yous purchase it.

Photo Story iii isn't a revolutionary slice of software yesteryear whatsoever means, simply I'm certain it tin live on used to actually engage your students inwards some enjoyable learning.

Hope it industrial plant for you

Best

Nik