Tool #7

The Photostory was very easy to create! I thought the hardest part was finding the free usable music to add and that was fairly painless. As I type the video is still uploading...taking a few minutes...patience.... We shall see how long it takes and if I uploaded the correct file. Anyway, I liked that it put the pictures into a standard story, then I could edit them as I wanted to and make the story more my own. If I wanted to do a quicky...I could just upload the pics with a cute song and be done with it. I will try the other format too since we will have the Macs in our classrooms. Since we have a classroom camera, this tool can be very useful. They could make stories for just about anything the could take pictures of, from field day to projects and how they progress. I like the idea of the kids doing many of these photo stories to help them remember experiences they had. I also like that they have a digital portfolio in which to store this kind of work. Here's a little quicky tip I have for cameras and organizing student photos. I made a folder on my desktop in which I put a short cut to each of my 60 student's SAN folder. Then after I upload the pictures to my computer I can easily copy and drag the picture to the students folder. My first attempt at this digital yearbook we used a power point...I think this year we will upgrade our digital yearbook to Photostory or I-movie. Still uploading...painless for me...but hmmm! It's up to 83 messages!...153...175...and there was a problem with the upload! That was a long wait for a no!


Went back and loaded the .wmn file instead of the photostory file. It took about 5 min to load.