Photo story is a free, easy, tool application created by Microsoft, which gives the opportunity to learn and create stories developed step by step with digital photos and pictures in a easy and fun way. In addition, you can make your presentations more dynamic adding music, narration and different effects to make this task more interactive. Thus with photo story people can use the mouse to paint pictures and create stunning special effects. Photo story was born from the result of a project by Microsoft for photo sharing and stories creating that showed the persons learned better when they made their own narration using their hands.
Technical specifications
To download the latest version of the Photo story is necessary that you have on your computer any version of windows installed, and for running it, you need the Windows Media Player program, Also, to burn the full created story in DVD or CD disc with a "Roxio " plug-in installed is needed.
How to use Photo story
Photo story is a very straightforward application, which has very few steps for the story creation. The basic navigation relies on the Next and Back buttons that appear at the bottom of the window. You can go forward and backward in an easy way in the digital story as many times as you want in case you need to make further changes. It is important to make sure to use the save project button at the bottom of the windows to keep the work.
For further information on how to start creating a new story, you can follow the steps in this web site:
Advantages
Photo story allows users who do not have their own photos or legal consent to download material like pictures or music to include these features making changes to their story. Then, they can make their story unique and personal because they determine which pictures, photos , zoom effects, narration , volume and preview will be shown for each piece. Additionally, making use of the output and input devices like microphone to record their own voice or camera to take photos permits users to be more creative with their presentations.
Limitations
When using the Photo story program it is necessary to take into account some important parameters like the maximum output resolution offered by Microsoft which is 1024*1280; the maximum number of images that may be imported in a single batch is 200, and that the narration for each picture cannot exceed 5 minutes. And finally it is important to note Photo story is not officially supported on the Vista or Windows 7 platform.
Usefulness for teachers and learners at the School of Languages
Teachers can use Photo story as a supporting tool for class since they can create their own presentations. For example, they can make up stories using pictures from a book that they are using in a class. The teachers could scan the images from a hard copy and add their own voice so that the pupil can hear the story while seeing the pictures.
Learners can use Photo story for their oral presentations as support for their performance. For example, they can make a personal presentation demonstrating what they have learned through images, adding titles and creating a fun story.
Written by
Verónica Fernández Urrego
Kissi Nataly Ríos Cárdenas
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