Comments on: Telling a PhotoStory http://pargonet.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/telling-a-photostory/ Reflections on Instructional Technology and Media Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:43:47 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Wesley Fryer http://pargonet.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/telling-a-photostory/#comment-1021 Wesley Fryer Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:57:14 +0000 http://pargonet.wordpress.com/?p=52#comment-1021 Glad you've discovered PhotoStory3. It is a good application and one of the best free apps for storytelling on the Windows platform. One of the biggest disadvantages of PhotoStory3 is that it outputs a Windows Media File that is not playable on a Macintosh, even with QuickTime plugins like Flip4Mac or the Mac version of Windows Media Player. The workaround we use in our statewide digital storytelling project is to post the PhotoStories to Ning, so they are transcoded to Flash format which is playable on any computer. If you haven't already, be sure to check out <a href="http://www.jakesonline.org/storytelling.htm" rel="nofollow">David Jakes' resources on Digital Storytelling</a>. His tutorials on PhotoStory3 are good. We have over 20 different digital stories that Oklahoma teachers and students have created focused mainly on veteran oral histories <a href="http://celebrateoklahoma.ning.com/" rel="nofollow">on our Celebrate Oklahoma Voices Ning</a>. Feel free to use any of those examples with your teachers and students as you continue to explore digital storytelling! My resources on digital storytelling are linked from <a href="http://teachdigital.pbwiki.com/digitalstorytelling" rel="nofollow">http://teachdigital.pbwiki.com/digitalstorytelling</a>. Glad you’ve discovered PhotoStory3. It is a good application and one of the best free apps for storytelling on the Windows platform. One of the biggest disadvantages of PhotoStory3 is that it outputs a Windows Media File that is not playable on a Macintosh, even with QuickTime plugins like Flip4Mac or the Mac version of Windows Media Player. The workaround we use in our statewide digital storytelling project is to post the PhotoStories to Ning, so they are transcoded to Flash format which is playable on any computer.

If you haven’t already, be sure to check out David Jakes’ resources on Digital Storytelling. His tutorials on PhotoStory3 are good.

We have over 20 different digital stories that Oklahoma teachers and students have created focused mainly on veteran oral histories on our Celebrate Oklahoma Voices Ning. Feel free to use any of those examples with your teachers and students as you continue to explore digital storytelling!

My resources on digital storytelling are linked from http://teachdigital.pbwiki.com/digitalstorytelling.

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