Photostory

Microsoft Photo Story 3 is a software that helps you

create exciting video stories from your pictures that

you can share with family and friends. For example,

you could create a video story that features narrated

photographs from a family vacation or a video story

that includes pictures and sounds of your school

project.

Description

This authoring tool allows students

to create their own digital stories

using text, audio and image and

export their projects into a digital

movie.

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1)To encourage students to work through the process of authoring, producing, presenting, publishing and sharing their own curriculum- based stories with other students in the class.

2)To reinforce instruction by providing illustrated explanation.

3)To improve the explanations by adding narrations and musical background.

4)save teachers time and efforts.

Target Target usersusers

The target users are studentsstudents in different

levels and ages. Also teachersteachers can use this

software to reinforce the instruction by

using different types of media: Audio, Text

and image.

Also anyoneanyone can use this software to make

photo album or any thing they want.

Teacher and students roles in using the software

1- Teacher can use this program to explain the lesson to students in very interesting way.

2-Teacher uses this software to assess students authoring skills.

3-Teacher uses this software as an entertainment tool.

4- To help students to improve their computer skills.

5-Manageable to students with special needs and at-risk students.

6-Provides teachers with more opportunities to be facilitator.

Features

1-Instructional software.

2-Includes three types of media text, audio and image.

3- It contains a gallery of music.

4-Make learning fun and motivated.

5- It makes the students able to add their own narrations.

6- Improve creative and critical thinking skills.

7- It brings photos to life.

8- Help students to create a relationship between pictures, sound and texts.

9- Encourage students cooperative work.

10-Engages students into design and organization process

11-It makes the students able to add special effects , titles and texts to their images.

Limitations

1)1) Can’t do custom animations to Can’t do custom animations to

the texts. the texts.

2)2) you can’t download it in Windows you can’t download it in Windows

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3)3) you can’t control the musical you can’t control the musical

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