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Digital Story Telling: Creating simple videosFor Maximum Impact

Using PhotoStory to create book trailers, simple library promotions or to introduce students to each otherYear 7 Orientation getting to know youIn the 1st week of school our students have a 3 day camp and spend 2 days learning about the school, meeting their teachers and learning to use their computers.

They create a video about themselves

English literature responseYear 7 students study Allan Baillies Little brother .One of the options they can use to respond is to create a video.They can use PhotoStory to do this.

English literature responseEnglish Video 2Response to Black Snake by Wilkinson

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Preparation is importantCreative CommonsDos and dont's of creating short films Set the students up with the knowledge to be good digital citizens and with the basics to have some success Explain about Creative Commons and show students how to locate items they need from these sites. Give guidance and discuss what makes a good trailer or short film

Links: In a post about cc: http://bit.ly/PZqMRd From my wiki: cc sites http://bit.ly/WYn6p2Book trailer rubric: http://bit.ly/d5oHNUGuidelines: http://tinyurl.com/95v98bc

Opening Page.Create new or edit an existing video

Choose your photos by highlighting them (holding down the Ctrl key) and click OK

You will be able to see all the photos you have collected in the strip below and the 1st one will be in the main section.You can opt to remove the black borders all at one or individually.You can also play with effects for with the images although this can be too much if not done carefully.At any time you can save your work.

Next add any titles to your images. You can add colour, style and play around with the text.You continue to do this to any or all of your photos.

Next step is to add narration to each slide.

You can also add motion to the video by customizing how you want the photos to appear on the screen and adjust the amount of time each stays on the screen.

You can also choose any transitions between slides.

Add any music or sound effect

Once you have chosen sound you can see it on the same screen with details

Finally, save the video in the final format.Sharing Digital Story Telling IdeasYear 12 farewell images of students and their time at schoolBook trailers by students and library staffTraining kids how to use on-line/digital toolsPromoting library events Book Week, visiting authors, etc., running lunchtime trivia activitiesBook Trailer Film Competition popular award voting and film viewing awards/trophyTaking photos of events to share what has been doneTools: Animoto, Moviemaker (windows 7 on), iMovie (Mac), Explain Everything (App), Coral VideoStudio, PhotoStoryPromotion of whats in the library for induction purposes students and staffLibrary rules emphasising what you can do or use humour