Photostory

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 * Download Photostory 3direct link to Microsoft's Photostory 3
 * [|Photostory Directions] Step by step directions on creating your first photostory
 * Quick Video Tutorials If you have a specific questions about the program
 * Video Tutorial - from YouTube
 * Educational uses of Digital Storytelling- Resources and examples
 * Center for Digital Story Telling - Resources

Links to Images and Music

 * Copyright Friendly Wikispaces- Created by Joyce Valenza from Springfield, PA, this wikispaces contains a myriad of sites for images,music, and other media tools
 * Creative Commons provides free licensing so creators can share, reuse, and remix creative work
 * Royalty-Free Music Incompetech is a create resource for instrumental music that captures all genres and moods
 * Free Play Music - Additional Music Site

Clarifying Copyright
Visit this link for information, resources and other learning materials about Copyright and Fair Use

**EXAMPLES**
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 * ** Historical Report on the Harlem Renaissance **

Song Lyric Project Students were given the chance to select listen to several unfamiliar songs, select one, and then conduct research to deepen their understanding of the historical referrences used to convey the ideas embedded in the song. They then created a music video based on the song, using their new found background knowledge to inform their production and photo choices. ||
 * **Book Trailer** media type="file" key="homeboyz ec.wmv" width="300" height="300"

The students created "book trailers" for independent reading books. The goal of the project was for them to feature their book in a way to appeal to other readers. Videos were to be no more than a minute long with a maximum of ten pictures. Narration or music was required along with on-screen text. media type="file" key="33_Rookie.wmv" width="300" height="300" || ** Literary Analysis ** After having read Dante's Inferno, students were asked to select a modern day crime and then define a punishment to parallel the idea of sins and rings of hell as written about by Dante. They researched images that reflected their ideas and then put them to music using Photostory. They were required to integrate two pieces of music, one to support the sinner and the crime, and the other, the punishment. media type="file" key="fort_hood_2-built_story.wmv" width="300" height="300" ||