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 * Photo Story 3: **

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 * Photo story was created by Microsoft as an easy way to create projects using 5 easy steps using a combination of photos, voice recordings, and music. I was first introduced to this program by Greg Lawrence who is our Technology Facilitator/Coach for our district. I really liked this program because it was easy to use and the students were able to complete a project in Writing in a reasonable amount of time. **
 * Teaching in a classroom you are always going to have a variety of different learning types. Recognizing this fact enables you to see that diverse learners have different unique characteristics that need to be addressed in lessons. This tool can meet the needs of diverse learners because it gives them another option of publishing instead of just paper and pencil. It allowed students to think about what photos would match their story and make it more visually appealing and it got them thinking about the mood they wanted to set when they had to select their background music. **
 * Take a look at the video below which gives a tutorial on Photo Story. **

Also take a look at this informational page that gives you another look at the information if the tutorial went to fast for you :) [|Microsoft Photo Story 3 for Windows XP]


 * Photo Story 3 in My Classroom: **

Photo Story in Reading- Photo Story would be a great program to use in any subject. For my demonstration of this tool I am going to give a summary of the lightning Thief. [|PhotoStory2.wmv]

Photo Story in Writing-

During our Memoir Unit, we created pieces of writing that showed a strong relationship between the author and a person, place, thing or object. This project worked really well with Photo Story because students were able to not only write a great piece, but they were able to choose photos that helped enhance their work and put in music to create a unique project that they can be proud of.

Here is an example of one of my students Memoirs using Photo Story. [|PhotoStory1.wmv]