Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Photo Story- A Free and Wonderful Tool

To wrap up our historical fiction book clubs, I am having the kids create photo story projects about the historical conflicts of their novel. These topics include the Holocaust, Japanese Internment, Apartheid, and Civil Rights.

They've been using the district databases to find photographs pertaining to their topic (although many are resorting to Google images). The final product will be a multimedia slide show with text and images intermingled. I might try to publish a few of the finished products on the blog. They also have the chance to create their own music and determine motion and transition in between their slides.

This program is a free download, just Google: Photo Story 3 for Microsoft.

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