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MECMaterials

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on March 12, 2008 at 6:47:36 am
 

MEC Photo Story Workshop Materials

 

These materials are intended to be used during the Photo Story workshop, to speed up the process of preparing a digital story. Of course, if you brought your own pictures and story, then use that!

 

PowerPoint Presentation (PDF handout with notes) digitalstorytelling.pdf

 

Images: MECpics.zip (compressed file you can download and then open. These are the pictures used in the sample MEC 2008 digital story.)

 

Background music: You can Create Music in Photo Story from an assortment of recordings, check those out. Also, try out http://freeplaymusic.com for free downloads.

 

Narration: Use a good quality microphone (I used a very inexpensive headset for this example, but you might want to invest in a portable digital recorder, that can also be used as an external microphone on your computer. The one I would recommend is the Zoom H4: http://www.samsontech.com/products/productpage.cfm?prodID=1901

You've probably seen these around ASU, as they are using them to record some of the sessions. This will set you back about $250 (check out the prices at amazon.com), but hey, you will have an excellent audio recorder. The Zoom records directly to mp3 format, so you don't need to even convert the files for podcasting. And, of course, you can use it as a microphone connection on your computer.

 

Ideas for publishing: How about having a class Facebook group and then students uploading their videos to that group? It's easy and would be a great way to keep track of their work. Also, others could comment on the videos, prompting some, perhaps to edit and make it even better! Cool idea, huh?

 

Or, students could upload to TeacherTube and invite their classmates as friends so they could all view each others' videos. The possibilities are really endless now.


 

Quick PhotoStory example using pictures from MEC 2008!

 

PhotoStory1.wmv (This is a very quick digital story I put together using pictures I took during the conference. This is the file that Photo Story produces, but you can convert this easily using http://www.switch.com, http://zamzar.com, or other file conversion programs.)

 

I uploaded my sample wmv file to TeacherTube http://teachertube.com and put the embedding code on this page: (please bear in mind that I used a very inexpensive microphone, so the audio quality is not what you would want.)

 

 

 

 

 

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