PhotoStory+In+Your+Classroom


 * PhotoStory In Your Classroom (Fred Hawthorne)**

Presenter: Kathleen Heiser Affliliation: Eastern York School District

Being late in the day with mind and body fired I sat in on this session to relax and refresh my memory.

PhotoStory is one of the most underutilized resources yet is free and easy to use. It is only for the Windows XP platform. She started by showing a sample PS she created using her photos of her recent Alaska vacation nicely presented with music. She used four or five appropriate "Alaska" themed songs clipped to stay within the bounds of the copyright law. She used Audacity to do this.

Showed several examples from various subjects to show how it can be used.

She then had "volunteers" come forward and create a PS presentation from scratch to illustrate how simple it is. They were able to insert the pictures, rearranged them, do some basic cropping and titling, insert transitions and insert a soundtrack. The volunteers also hooked up a microphone and put their own voiceovers.

The group gave a number of ideas how it could be used.