Photo+Story+Primary+Grades

Photo Story 3 Photo Story 3 is a fantastic way to create slideshows using your digital photos. With a single click, you can touch up, crop, or rotate pictures and add special effects, soundtracks, narration, and children's own voices to tell a story. ||
 * Suggested Grades: || Pre-K through 5 ||
 * Description of tool || [[image:photostory.jpg]]
 * Description of tool || [[image:photostory.jpg]]
 * What || In the elementary classrooms, the possibilities for Photo Story 3 are endless! It can be used by teachers as a teaching tool or means to communicate information to parents. Students can also use it to create original works. We have created an Animoto video to demonstrate some of the fabulous uses of Photo Story 3. Please watch this video to get some ideas for how to use this amazing digital tool in your classroom. After watching the video and subsequent screencast and instructional supplements, you will have the opportunity to play with Photo Story 3 and try to make your own!
 * What || In the elementary classrooms, the possibilities for Photo Story 3 are endless! It can be used by teachers as a teaching tool or means to communicate information to parents. Students can also use it to create original works. We have created an Animoto video to demonstrate some of the fabulous uses of Photo Story 3. Please watch this video to get some ideas for how to use this amazing digital tool in your classroom. After watching the video and subsequent screencast and instructional supplements, you will have the opportunity to play with Photo Story 3 and try to make your own!

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 * Why: || [[image:UDL edited.JPG width="313" height="261" align="left"]]
 * Why: || [[image:UDL edited.JPG width="313" height="261" align="left"]]
 * Multiple Means of Representation:**
 * Multiple Means of Action and Expression:**
 * Multiple Means of Engagement:**
 * Standards: || [[image:ccss.jpg align="center"]]
 * Standards: || [[image:ccss.jpg align="center"]]

// **Common Core State Standards:** // // **Integration of Knowledge and Ideas:** // **MA 7:** With prompting and support, describe important details from an illustration or photograph. // **Key Ideas and Details:** // // **Production and Distribution of Writing:** // // **Research to Build and Present Knowledge:** // // **Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas:** //
 * 7. **Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words
 * 2. **Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
 * 4.** Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
 * 8.** Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, assess the credibility and accuracy of each source, and integrate the information while avoiding plagiarism.
 * MA 4**: Describe personal experiences; tell real or imagined stories
 * MA 5**: Create representations or stories (e.g. drawings, constructions with blocks or other materials, clay models, writing) and explain them to others
 * MA 6**: Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas
 * 5**. Add audio recordings and visual displays to presentations when appropriate to enhance the development of main ideas or themes ||
 * NETS-T || [[image:iste.jpg width="172" height="65"]]
 * NETS-T || [[image:iste.jpg width="172" height="65"]]

a. promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness c. promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students' conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes a. design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity b. develop technology-enriched learning environments that enable all students to pursue their individual curiosities and become active participants in setting their own educational goals, managing their own learning, and assessing their own progress c. customize and personalize learning activities to address students' diverse learning styles, working strategies, and abilities using digital tools and resources d. provide students with multiple and varied formative and summative assessments aligned with content and technology standards and use resulting data to inform learning and teaching b. collaborate with students, peers, parents, and community members using digital tools and resources to support student success and innovation c. communicate relevant information and ideas effectively to students, parents, and peers using a variety of digital age media and formats a. advocate, model, and teach safe, legal, and ethical use of digital information and technology, including respect for copyright, intellectual property, and the appropriate documentation of sources b. address the diverse needs of all learners by using learner-centered strategies providing equitable access to appropriate digital tools and resources || a. apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes b. create original works as a means of personal or group expression a. interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety digital environments and media b. communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats d. contribute to project teams to produce original works or solve problems a. plan strategies to guide inquiry b. locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media c. evaluate and select information sources and digital tools based on the appropriateness to specific tasks d. process data and record results a. understand and use technology systems b. select and use applications effectively and productively c. troubleshoot systems and applications d. transfer current knowledge to learning of new technologies ||
 * Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and** **Creativity**:
 * Design and Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences and Assessments:**
 * Model Digital-Age Work and Learning:**
 * Promote and Model Digital Citizenship** **and** **Responsibility**:
 * Nets-S || **Creativity and Innovation:**
 * Nets-S || **Creativity and Innovation:**
 * Communication and Collaboration:**
 * Research and Information Fluency:**
 * Technology Operations and Concepts:**
 * 21st Themes || [[image:21st century.jpg align="center"]]
 * 21st Themes || [[image:21st century.jpg align="center"]]

Photo Story 3 will allow teachers to provide students with essential 21st century skills. Students will be prepared for life and work experiences by developing creativity, innovation, critical thinking and problem solving, communication, and collaboration. Students will be able to keep up with the rapid changes in technology tools and demonstrate information and media literacy. In addition, students will navigate the complex life and work environments by developing flexibility and adaptability, initiative and self-direction, social and cross-cultural skills, productivity and accountability, leadership and responsibility. ||
 * Agenda: || 1. **Introduction to Photo Story 3.** Explain rationale, share reasons why Photo Story is an incredible Web 2.0 tool. Refer to What and Why sections above. 5 minutes
 * Agenda: || 1. **Introduction to Photo Story 3.** Explain rationale, share reasons why Photo Story is an incredible Web 2.0 tool. Refer to What and Why sections above. 5 minutes

2. **Animoto video of project ideas.** This Animoto will have already been shared via an email link to all participants, however, we feel it is important to share it again. That way, we can build in some time to discuss project ideas and share things that we've done previously to hopefully inspire some creative thinking! Participants will also have the opportunity to share project ideas with each other. 10 minutes

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3. **Screencast of how to use Photo Story 3.** This is where we will begin to share the actual ins and outs of the program. Participants will watch the Screencast and then be invited to work with the program themselves. After watching the screencast as a group, participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and discuss. 10 minutes

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4. **Explore the link to learn more about how to create a Photo Story.** Participants will work together or independently to explore each step of creating a Photos Story through the linked PDF document. We will also have a photocopied handout of this PDF file so that participants can have a hard copy to refer to as they navigate the program. 10 minutes

@http://schools.wcs.edu/instructionaltech/photostory3.pdf

5. **Activity**: See below: 30 minutes

6. **Wrap up/Discussion and Feedback**: Please take a moment to visit the discussion forum at the top of the page and provide feedback or ask questions. 5 minutes ||
 * Examples/Models: || Handouts: sample story board and copied step by step directions for each participant
 * Examples/Models: || Handouts: sample story board and copied step by step directions for each participant

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 * TPACK: || Photostory 3 connects to the TPACK theory that states "technology integration efforts should be creatively designed or structured for particular subject matter ideas in specific classroom contexts".
 * TPACK: || Photostory 3 connects to the TPACK theory that states "technology integration efforts should be creatively designed or structured for particular subject matter ideas in specific classroom contexts".

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 * Activity: || After watching the Animoto video, screencast, and exploring the linked PDF file that details step by step directions for how to create a Photo Story, you are ready to start playing in the sandbox. You have come prepared with a file on your computer or on your jump drive of images that directly relate to curriculum, student learning, or important information that you would like to communicate.
 * Activity: || After watching the Animoto video, screencast, and exploring the linked PDF file that details step by step directions for how to create a Photo Story, you are ready to start playing in the sandbox. You have come prepared with a file on your computer or on your jump drive of images that directly relate to curriculum, student learning, or important information that you would like to communicate.

This is the pre-activity email sent to participants:

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Greetings from your Photo Story 3 workshop presenters! Thank you for your interest and for signing up for our Photo Story 3 professional development. Photo Story 3 is a fantastic way to create slideshows using your digital photos. With a single click, you can touch up, crop, or rotate pictures and add special effects, soundtracks, narration, and children's own voices to tell a story. We are really excited to show you this great Web 2.0 tool to use in your classroom!=====

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Below is a link to an animoto video called, “Why Photo Story?” Please take a minute to view the video. After watching, think of something you teach or do in your classroom that you would like to feature. We are asking that you come prepared to the workshop with a few pictures in a folder on your computer. You could even save them to a flash drive and bring them with you.=====

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If you're having trouble thinking of an idea, try something as simple as an orientation video for your classroom and new students. You could take a bunch of pictures of different parts of your classroom, save them on a jump drive or in a folder, and bring them with you. At the workshop, you can create a video that can be shown to students on the first day of school and sent home to parents to give them a virtual tour of their new classroom!=====

Karen McDavitt and Stephanie DeLeo
__**Activity:**__ Construct Photo Story 1. Plan Photo Story: use provided story board to plan and organize your project 2. Open Photo Story 3 and upload pictures from desktop or jump drive 3. Organize photos in logical sequence following story board 4. Play with adding captions and information to any photos you choose- experiment with font colors, sizes, and locations to make delivery most effective 5. Add narration to photos to help deliver message 6. Experiment with adding music if appropriate 7. Save Photo Story to be played back on your computer 8. We can then show you how to upload your Photo Story to You Tube as an unlisted link so that you can share it with your audience and access it from anywhere!

While following the above steps, we will be there to answer any questions and help trouble shoot. At the end of the 30 minute construction time, you will have a chance to participate in the discussion forum and share any questions, concerns, or successes you had today during this workshop. After the workshop, you will have a chance to share your Photo Stories with everyone if you choose to do so!

[|Photo Story Storyboard Template (step 1):] ||
 * Discussion: Feedback || Workshop Feedback Discussion Forum:
 * Discussion: Feedback || Workshop Feedback Discussion Forum:

Please help us evaluate our workshop by providing us with feedback. What do you feel most comfortable using right away? Is there something you would like to know more about? ||