Today I had the opportunity to actually learn Photo Story. It was awesome! And so user-friendly. Today I uploaded our pictures and adjusted the start and stop point for each frame. I love that you can do that! Although you can edit pictures, Doc Waters said the best place to do that is Picassa. You can add text to your digital story very easily as well. We still have to record our narration. I think I was successful in converting our music from YouTube to MP3 format to be able to insert into our Photo Story. I am thrilled that the conversion worked. I was a little worried because my husband tried doing it before I did and said it didn't work. (However, he probably didn't follow my directions and that's why it didn't work for him.) Hopefully we will get our narration recorded and be able to overlay it with the music using Audacity. I am excited to use that program and get that part of our digital story completed. I am also excited to use this program on my own to create digital stories (featuring my little one) as gifts to family.
After using this program, I can see this as a program that students could use for presentations of material they have learned. It would be fun for students and fun for teachers to assess learning. It is a very easy program and one that I believe would be exciting for students to use and one that would be exciting for fellow students to view. I think that when a student creates a project like this, the information they research and gather together is retained much better than simply reading it from a text or writing a paper. I also think that the impact it has for the students that view it is increased and that they too retain more information. This is definitely a resource I plan to use in my future classrooms to teach as well as assess the learning of students.
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