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 camera Capturing 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) Computer Microsoft’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

Camera Basics Focusing will make the objects and subjects in your shot more defined and clear. Most of 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 time the 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 Pictures Direct Connection Card Reader Saving to Picture folder on the computer

Create a Storyboard The 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