Photostory 3

Microsoft's Photostory 3 for Windows allows you to be creative with your photos. You can create slideshows using your digital photos, add special effects, sound tracks, and your own voice narration. You can touch-up, crop, rotate, and personalize your photos with titles and captions. You can share your photo story through email; by uploading it into a wiki, blog, or web page; and by creating a video CD or DVD. For a Flat Stanley project with 2nd grade students, we created a photostory of Flat Stanley's adventures on the school's playground and of his road trip to Columbus, OH for a regatta event. Students in 5th grade created a photostory as a culminating activity for their Duck Project. They took digital photos of their rubber duck being involved in different activities at school and home, and then put them together, added a title and captions, and created a soundtrack to play throughout their slideshow. They were also able to make their projects unique and creative by adding special effects. Photostory 3 is a free download, is easy to use, and allows students a creative outlet for completing projects.