Digital Storytelling using Microsoft’s Photo Story

Presented By

C. Zachary , Derek Atchison

Why Digital Cameras?The camera is a piece of technology

that your students can easily learn to use.

Using digital photography helps the student become more involved with the subject matter.

The process promotes planning and reasoning. (what pictures to take and why those pictures are needed)

Authentic work

Session Highlights Features of the digital cameraCapturing pictures

◦Camera shots◦Framing

Downloading pictures Import pics into PhotoStory and

create a digital story.

Materials for Session

Digital Camera with USB cable (or card reader)

ComputerMicrosoft’s Media Player version 10 or 11*Microsoft’s Photo Story 3*Lesson Plan (provided)Storyboard template (provided)Rubric (created or modified by group)* Needs to be installed on each computer

Camera Features

SHUTTER BUTTON

POWER BUTTON

MICROPHONE

VIEWFINDER SPEAKER

MODE SWITCH

RING

LENS

View Finder Window

LCD MONITOR

FLASH

FUNCTION BUTTONS

Camera BasicsFocusing will make the objects and subjects in your shot more defined and clear. Mostof the time you will find that you want everything in your frame focused, but sometimes you may want the background or foreground to be blurred or not in focus – so that the subject in the frame stands out.

Exposure refers to the total amount of light allowed to enter the lens. Most of the timethe automatic exposure setting on your camera will be sufficient.

White Balance Cameras do not adjust as well as humans, and you will notice that footage can often looks orange, yellow, or some other off color. To counteract this problem, all cameras have a white balance function. When you white balance a camera, you are telling it what is white in a given lighting situation.

Capturing Pictures

Camera Shots

Rule of Thirds-Framing

Downloading PicturesDirect ConnectionCard ReaderSaving to Picture folder on the

computer

Create a StoryboardThe advantage of creating the

storyboard is to envision the final project.

Here is where you would select, organize and sequence all your types of media.

PhotoStory