Transcript Photostory 3: Why and How

Visual Literacy 2.0
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Credits – Kathy Schrock
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21
Century Skills
Learning and Thinking skills
- Critical Thinking and Problem-solving
- Creativity and Innovation
- Information & Media Literacy
21st Century Assessments
- A balance of assessments is needed.
Assessments must use modern
technologies…
Non-linguistic Representations
According to…
• Marzano
Marzano speaks of non-linguistic representations as one of his nine core
strategies for improving instruction. These include:
Creating Graphic representations
Drawing Pictures or Pictographs
Generating Mental pictures
Cmap and Bubbl.us are two additional tools
for non-linguistic representations
Consider
“We need to prepare our
children for a future that we
can’t even describe.”
David Warlick
Technology Consultant & Author
Our Visual World
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The average youth spends
22,000
__________
hours watching TV
by the age of 18.
He/she spends12,000
___________
hours in school.
The average vocabulary of a
25,000
14 year old: __________
words in
10,000 words in 1999.
1950; ________
Motivation?
30
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% of college students
would rather pick up trash than
write a paper;
50
_________
% would rather
donate blood.
Brain Bandwidth
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1,000,000
Each eye has ______________
fibers to the brain; each ear has
30,000
______________.
Humans process visual info
60,000 times faster than text.
_________
 Words are processed
sequentially
___________, images
simultaneously
_____________________.
(keyboard vs. camera)
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Why bother?
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Using illustrated materials,
retention and recall increase
42
_________
% and transfers to
long term memory a whopping
_______
%.
89
89
Recall is increased ________%
in
color.
Why Photostory3 & Cmap?
WHAT teachers need to know
Content, compassion
& passion
Why teachers should do this
ICT, 21st Century
Marzano, Myer, Alverman,
Tovani and Vygotsky
HOW teachers teach
INSTRUCTIONAL
PRACTICES
Visual Literacy
Technology
Tools
Photostory 3
Bubbl.us
Cmap
Photostories
Lasts from 30 seconds to
7minutes, 10min max
 Audio is clear
 Used to illustrate topic in movie
format
 Scan small pictures in at higher
DPI, to avoid pixilation
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Photostory 3 – Free is Good!
Download from Microsoft
Search for Photostory 3
Photostory 3 – What can it do?
Edit and add motion to Pictures
Allows for Text and Narration
Has built in music generator
Digitales and Rubistar can help you evaluate
Steps to Building a Photostory
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1. Import and Order your
digital pictures. Hold shift
key for multiple selections.
You may want to create
an all black jpg in paint for
intros and credits, but this
is not necessary. You can
do basic cropping,
remove red eye, and
remove black borders (not
usually recommended)
here as well, but any indepth photo editing is
better left to another
program before you
import. Select NEXT.
Step 2 - Adding Text
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On this screen you can add text
and photo effects. I do not
recommend the photo effects,
but text, carefully chosen and
placed, may add to your project.
Notice you can make the text
appear in the right, left, top,
bottom or middle of your picture.
This is also a good place to
Save Project. Remember the
name of your file, and where on
the hard drive you saved it to.
Select NEXT.
Step 3 – Add Narration & Motion
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On this screen, you can add
narration and customize
motion. I recommend you add
narration first, as that usually
will dictate how long the photo
is displayed. Preview your
narration. If you do not like it,
you can delete it and start
over.
Click “Customize Motion” to
select the motion and duration
of your photos. You can add
transitions here, as well, but I
do not recommend it to begin
with. Later, a cross fade
transition may be desirable.
Use the rest with caution.
Select NEXT.
Step 4 – Add Music
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Here you can add music by
either selecting Create Music.
Select your Genre from the drop
down box. Then Style from the
next drop down.
Then select your preferred Band,
Mood, Tempo and Intensity. This
can take a lot of experimentation,
but the default classical
Amadeus, piano, sentimental
frequently works well.
IMPORTANT: After selecting
music, be sure to REDUCE the
VOLUME to slightly above LOW,
or 1/8th of total volume. This will
keep you from drowning out
narration with music. Preview
your Photostory. Select NEXT.
Step 5 – Export to .wmv Movie
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Select “Save story for playback on
computer”
Browse to the folder you created at
the beginning of this project. Select
that folder. The movie file will be the
same name as your project file. A
descriptive filename is better than
the default “Photostory”.
Quality Settings are generally set to
“Profile for Computers 2 - 640 x
480”. Save Project. Select NEXT.
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Your movie, with narration, pictures,
and music is created!
Photostory 3 – Caveats
Keep music VERY low if there is
narration
Can convert to AVI for DVD playing,
but not in PS3 – Use MovieMaker2
Photostory 3 – Caveats
Use big pictures
- You can shrink, but not expand
digital pictures
Create a blank all black or all white
picture for intro or closing text
Go to the tutorial!
http://www.windowsphotostory.com/Guides
/Beginner/importing-and-arranging-pictures.aspx
Cmap & Bubbl.us
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Cmap is a FREE Concept
Mapping download that
duplicates much of the
functionality of Inspiration.
http://cmap.ihmc.us/
Bubbl.us is an online concept
mapping tool.
Cmap Tools
Cmaps can introduce your class
Cmaps can also be used as an
assessment tool
Writing
Conference
Assessment
Mike Kamrud’s Portfolio
http://students.dsu.edu/kamrudm/Portfolio/Portfolio_Template.htm
Bubbl.us
• Let’s you create concept maps online
• Share maps online, or export as .jpg
Digital Presentations - Rubrics
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DigiTales
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http://www.digitales.us/index.php
Rubistar at
http://rubistar.4teachers.org
is a GREAT website for creating
rubrics. It gives you samples for
different project types, then lets
you edit and save online.
rubistar.4teachers.org
Digital Presentations
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DigiTales
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http://www.digitales.us/index.php
Digital Storytelling takes the ancient art of oral storytelling and engages a
palette of technical tools to weave personal tales using images, graphics,
music and sound mixed together with the author's own story voice. Digital
storytelling is an emerging art form of personal, heartful expression that
enables individuals and communities to reclaim their personal cultures
while exploring their artistic creativity. While the heart and power of the
digital story is shaping a personal digital story about self, family, ideas, or
experiences, the technology tools also invite writers and artists to think and
invent new types of communication outside the realm of traditional linear
narratives.
Filamentality - The Original 2.0
Filamentality - The Original 2.0
http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/webwhy_dsuds.html
Google for Educators
http://www.google.com/educators/tools.html
SchoolTube.com
TeacherTube.com
Using Video from the Web
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In a perfect world, we would
always be able to access
whatever video we need for
teaching and students could
not misuse.
Sometimes we need to capture
video at home for school use
Using Video from the Web
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Video Capture sites
Keepvid.com
Vixy.net
Media-Convert – for sounds
You may also want a Wimpy
FLV player
http://learn.sdstate.edu/erionr/video
Using Video – Zamzar.com
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Video Capture sites
Zamzar.com
Converts files and web video
(YouTube.com, etc.)
Emails you a link to download
Web 2.0 The Machine is using us
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE
Thanks for coming!
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Credits
Kathy Schrock
Lynn Burmark
R.L. Erion
Questions? Email me at:
[email protected]