PBL Technology Tutorial



208026082727800-6223001384300MIDDLE & HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL II & IIIHow to Create a Digital Story With Photostory 300MIDDLE & HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL II & IIIHow to Create a Digital Story With Photostory 3centercenterpbl technology tutorials2013-201400pbl technology tutorials2013-20143154680778498500IntroductionThe Project Based Learning initiative was launched to address the increased need for students to acquire 21st century skills.Through Project Based Learning (PBL), students are exposed to deep learning experiences that are inquire based, student-centered, and integrated to the curriculum.The Harmony approach is to maintain the focus on standards-based and student-based and student-centered teaching while enriching and extending the learning of students through PBL projects.The goal is to promote not only collaborative skills and student ownership of learning but also to promote student success in state and national standards. How to Create 39674801751330See Directions and a Video Tutorial about at 400000See Directions and a Video Tutorial about at a Digital Story with Photostory 3 This tutorial is to assist with creating a digital story with Photostory 3. The goal of this task is to let teachers know about the project that you have chosen and what you have learned so far. The following is a series of steps to help students create a digital story with Photostory 3. Follow each step carefully and use pictures as reference. NotificationsAs stated in the PBL website, () remember the following.1- Students need to create a PERSONAL Google account that should ONLY be used for PBL assignments.2- Through this Google Account, students may not use any of the Google services including Gmail, Google Sites, Google Drive, YouTube Channels, Google Plus and Picasa Albums to create any offensive or disruptive messages. Among those which are considered offensive are any messages that contain sexual implications, racial or gender-specific slurs, or any other comments that offensively address an individual’s age, sexual orientation, religious or political beliefs, national origin, disability, or anything that could be construed as a harassment or disparaging of others.3- Students may not use any of the Google services including Gmail, Google Sites, Google Drive, YouTube Channels, Google Plus and Picasa Albums to send, receive or post materials, proprietary financial information or other similar materials that violate copyright law. Students will be responsible for any content in their Google services that violates copyright law.4- Students are responsible for providing their Google account information to their parents. StepsStep 1- The first step is to download Photostory 3 Software. There are two options, either Google search “PHOTOSTORY 3” from Microsoft or alternatively, go to “” website and locate and click the download link under the RESOURCES page. Figure SEQ Figure \* ARABIC 1Step 2- To download your installation file, click “CONTINUE”, the verification tool from this website will run and check your windows copy as long as it is genuine, you will have no problem installing your free Photostory software. Figure SEQ Figure \* ARABIC 2Step 3- Once Photostory 3 is downloaded and opened, you will see a welcome screen with three options listed, begin a new story, edit a project, and play a story. Click “BEGIN A NEW STORY”. And then click “NEXT” button.Figure SEQ Figure \* ARABIC 3Step 4- The next window is about importing and arranging your pictures. In Photostory 3, your pictures become your slides, so you will need to import some pictures to start creating a story. Click “IMPORT PICTURES” and locate the images you would like to insert. You can either select pictures one at a time or you can do multiple selections by holding down your “CONTROL” key. Figure SEQ Figure \* ARABIC 4Step 5- Once the pictures are in our timeline, you can change their order by simple dragging and dropping action. You may also use the arrow keys on the right as shown in figure 5. Figure SEQ Figure \* ARABIC 5Step 6- To delete an image, right click and delete or click the “X” icon, located on the bottom, right corner.Figure SEQ Figure \* ARABIC 6Step 7- In Photostory 3, there are some picture editing tools, such as color correction, red eye correction, rotate counterclockwise, and rotate and clockwise.Figure SEQ Figure \* ARABIC 7Step 8- There are additional editing tools available under the edit menu. Click “EDIT” button. Figure SEQ Figure \* ARABIC 8Step 9- Under the “ROTATE AND CROP” tab, you will see some rotation tools, as well as the cropping tool. Just check the mark next to the crop tool. The rectangle representing the area to be cropped will come up, so select the area you would like to crop and save it with the “SAVE” button. *Note: You can move on to the next picture or go back to the previous picture with the arrows. You can also redo a crop; simply uncheck the crop to reset your image. You also have the ability to reset the whole image by clicking on “RESET” button. Figure SEQ Figure \* ARABIC 9Step 10- Under the “AUTO FIX” tab, you can correct contrast, color levels and red eye. *Note: You can move on to the next picture or go back to the previous picture with the arrows. Don’t forget to save with the “SAVE” button. Figure SEQ Figure \* ARABIC 10Step 11- Under the “ADD EFFECT” tab, you will see several effects to choose from. These effects can be applied to all pictures if you want to, just check the “APPLY THE SELECTED EFFECT TO ALL OF THE PICTURES IN YOUR STORY”. After you are done editing the picture, click the “CLOSE” button.*Note: You can move on to the next picture or go back to the previous picture with the arrows. Don’t forget to save with the “SAVE” button. Figure SEQ Figure \* ARABIC 11Step 12- Pictures can be in different sizes and may not fit to the video window. It is normal to see black borders around your pictures in Photostory 3. Photostory 3 helps you to determine whether you would like to remove these borders with this tool. To remove black borders, click “REMOVE BLACK BORDERS”. Figure 12Step 13- When you click “REMOVES BLACK BORDERS”, Photostory 3 will analyze your pictures and give you recommendations. It shows you the before and after removing the borders from your pictures. This rectangle can be moved or adjusted. However, by removing black borders, sometimes you may lose important parts of your picture. So it will be up to you to proceed with removing black borders option. If you are okay with the picture in the after box, then just click “YES”. Then Photostory will analyze the next picture in line and will give you its recommendation. So you can accept these recommendations or reject them depending on your need. You have the option of saying yes to all of these changes with the “YES TO ALL” button. Once Photostory analyzes all photos, you will go back to “IMPORT AND ARRANGE YOUR PICTURE” window. Figure 13Step 14- When you are happy with all of the edits that have been done to your images, click “NEXT” to proceed to the next window. *Note: On each picture in your timeline, there will be a little icon if there is an edit on the picture, meaning that the picture is no longer in its original format. Figure 14Step 15- The next window is “ADD A TITLE TO YOUR PICTURES”. You may simply type the title in the provided space. You can change the style of your text by clicking select font icon. Here you can change font color. When you are finished with the font, click “OK” button.Figure 15Step 16- There are several alignment options available for your text. You can align your title or captions to the left, to the center, to the right or horizontally and to the top, middle, and bottom vertically. When you are done with this section for your pictures, click “NEXT” button.*Note: Unfortunately, you don’t have the option to move your text freely in Photostory 3. Figure SEQ Figure \* ARABIC 16Step 17- The next window is called “NARRATE YOUR PICTURES AND CUSTOMIZE MOTION”. In order to narrate your pictures you need to make sure your computer has a built-in microphone or you need to have a microphone plugged in. You can click on the microphone icon to change your settings. The big red button is for recording narration.*Note: Additionally, you may type your script in the box to aide your memory. The maximum that you can record is 4:59 minutes. Figure 17Step 18- You can stop and delete your narration by using these icons. Figure SEQ Figure \* ARABIC 18Step 19- There is a call out icon on pictures with narration, this represents that there is a recording on this picture. To preview your video, click “PREVIEW” button. Once you preview your video you will notice that the recordings are for individual pictures only. In other words, you can’t record your entire script in one voice over session and lay it over all of your images in Photostory. You may, however, use a separate program to record your narration for the whole story and then insert that as a music file to your video as shown Step 25. Figure SEQ Figure \* ARABIC 19Step 20- To customize your motion, click the “CUSTOMIZE MOTION” button under “NARRATE YOUR PICTURES AND CUSTOMIZE MOTION” image window. In “MOTION AND DURATION” tab, you can define your motion by specifying the start position and end position of motion. Figure SEQ Figure \* ARABIC 20Step 21- The duration of an image is set automatically to five seconds by default. You can lower this number to have your image displayed faster or increase the number of seconds to make your image appear slower by clicking on the “NUMBER OF SECONDS TO DISPLAY THE PICTURE” and then change the seconds. When you are happy with the motion and duration of the image, click “SAVE”. Figure SEQ Figure \* ARABIC 21Step 22- Switch to “TRANSITION EFFECTS” tab. Transition effects are effects that happen between the images when you transition them one image to another. Transitions are set automatically by Photostory 3. The default number to display transition is set to 1 second in Photostory 3. You can always change this number, to make your transition happen faster or slower, click on “NUMBER OF SECONDS TO DISPLAY THE TRANSITION” and then adjust the seconds. Figure 22Step 23- The default transition effect is called CROSS FADE. You may change this transition by selecting another transition effect from the transition’s gallery. Once you click on a particular transition style, you will see a preview of that transition at the top. Figure 23Step 24- Once you decide on your transition between current and previous picture, click on the arrow key at the bottom to move to the next image to set a transition. When you are finished with all of the Transitions, click “CLOSE” button. Figure 24Step 25- The last step before saving our story is the “ADD BACKGROUND MUSIC” window. Here you can select a music or sound clip from your computer or you can even create a custom music by using the built-in music creator in Photostory 3. First click on “SELECT MUSIC” and locate a music file on your computer. Photostory 3 will accept audio files in wma, mp3, and wav files. Figure 25Step 26- Once the music file is inserted, Photostory 3 will list some information about that file such as title, artist, as well as its location on your computer. Figure 26Step 27- Another option to use when inserting music is to use the music that Photostory 3 creates. Click “CREATE MUSIC” button and select the images the music should be on. The built-in music creator is a very nice tool, where you can create copyright-free music easily in Photostory 3. Figure 27Step 28- Photostory 3 has a variety of options to choose from, just pick a genre, a style, dance and moods. Figure 28Step 29- You can also increase the intensity or lower the intensity. You can also play with your tempo, to make it fit well with your video. Figure 29Step 30- Click the “PLAY” icon to preview, once you are happy with your music, just click “OK” button to add that to your timeline. Figure 30Step 31- There is only one audio track in Photostory 3. Therefore it is not possible to stack several audio files up against each other. The inserted audio clips or sound files can only be placed in a linear fashion. In other words, they won’t overlap and once they are inserted, you can’t move them either. However, you may delete music and reinsert it if necessary. To delete music, use the “DELETE MUSIC” button. The only control that you have over your music is the ability to insert audio or music where the picture starts.Figure 31Step 32- Another control is the ability to adjust the volume level. It is recommended that you set the music’s volume very low, so that your voice over or narration can be clearly heard as shown in picture. Click “NEXT”, when you are done.Figure 32Step 33- The final step is saving your story. To save your story, you have several options available. It is recommended that you save your story to “SAVE YOUR STORY FOR PLAYBACK ON YOUR COMPUTER” on your computer, which is a default option in Photostory 3.Figure 33Step 34- Click “SETTING” under quality settings to see available options. The higher the display size or the resolution of your story, the higher the video quality it will be. However, higher resolution means also larger file size. So depending on your need and size limitations. You can choose a profile that fits your needs. The default profile is called profile for computer 2 with 640 by 480 resolutions. This setting would create a medium quality video with relatively small file size. So we recommend the default profile in Photostory 3, which is profile for “COMPUTER 2 WITH 640 BY 480 RESOLUTIONS” for a typical digital photo story. If you need, you can always increase the quality settings of your video in Photostory. When you are finished, click “OK”. Figure 34Step 35- Before you create your video, you can specialize the location and file name of your story. The final product will be in .wmv format. To create your video, click “NEXT”. *Note: Once this option is used, this video file will no longer be editable; no changes can be made to this file. Figure 35Step 36- Let Photostory 3 run and render your video. Once completed, you will be able to play your video.Figure 36Step 37- There is also a save project option in Photostory 3. This option is for editing your project later. Photostory 3 will save your project in .wp3 format. You may reopen this project file to further edit your project. To use this option, click “SAVE PROJECT”. Figure 37 ................
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