What is Photo Story?
Microsoft Photo Story is a free application that allows users to create a show and tell presentation from their digital photos.

History Photo Story was first based with a Microsoft Research project in photo sharing. When researching how people liked to share their pictures they found out that people like to move their hands and make gestures. The first prototype of Photo Story would encourage people to use the mouse to point. They also learned that people did not like to use their voice and would redo the recording many times. This made the stories less interesting and people had trouble expressing themselves. The early prototypes only had one button, the “Oops” button. This was made so that if someone did mess up they could fix it but that people would not change it as often.

Key Features
You can create a slide show by using your digital photos. With photo sharing you can crop picture, rotate pictures and touch them all at the same time. You may also add special effects, music and your own voice to the photo story. To make them more personalized you can add captions and titles. The files may be small enough so that you can send them by e-mail, watch them on your computer on TV.

Photo Story in the Classroom
Photo Story is particularly helpful when used in the classroom as it can "hook" the learner and make learning more fun. A good time to use photo story is at the beginning of the year as a "get to know you". Another beneficial time would be if the students went on a field trip and made a photo story of their trip.







Resources for Future Learning





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URL's for Future Teaching

Photo Story Lesson Plan

Photo Story in the Classroom

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Educational Uses

Photo Storytelling by Students

Reference:
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