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Project Overview Create your Wiki Page and Find Images on FlickrStorm Downloading Photos from FlickrStorm PhotoSet Creating your Story using PhotoStory Upload your Story to Wiki Page Tips Assessment

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Project Overview

 

In this project, you will first create a wiki page on the class wiki site. This page will hold links to photos, scripts/notes, and finally your finished video project. You will also use FlickrStorm to locate and create photo sets of Creative Commons images to use for your story. Finally, you will develop a short digital story in PhotoStory that will use the images you collected in addition to a narrative story based around those images, and background music.

 

 

Create your Wiki Page and Find Images on FlickrStorm

 

1. Create a new page on http://mistermaksclass.pbworks.com

• File name: First Name-Last Initial followed by a dash and then Creative Commons
• Store in correct folder according to your class
• Tag your page with “cc”

 

2. Go to FlickrStorm (http://www.zoo-m.com/flickr-storm/)

• Click on Advanced and search for any term you like (i.e. a color, a season, weather, etc.)
• Make sure you choose one of the Creative Commons licenses
• Add photos to your tray. You should get 15-20 photos.
• Once your tray is full, click on Download and Link to your Tray

 

3. Once your new FlickrStorm Photo Set page appears,

• Copy the long link
• Open your newly created wiki page and create a heading called Photo Resources.
• Under Photo Resources, type in the search term you used.
• Paste the FlickrStorm Photo Set link in the page (you won't be able to use the right click mouse trick...use the Edit menu in your browser's toolbar).
• If you created several Photo Sets, add them all to the page.
• Save your page and you’re done…. for now!

 

 

 

If you would like a printable tutorial for FlickrStorm, click on the following link:

http://www.jakesonline.org/using_flickrstorm.pdf

 

The next step is to download the photos from your FlickrStorm Photo Set to your computer...

 

 

Downloading Photos from FlickrStorm PhotoSet

 

This screencast demos this process

 

Now, you will use your downloaded images to create your Digital Story...

 

 

Creating your Story using PhotoStory

 

At this point, you should have a folder (or several folders) of images you generated and downloaded from FlickrStorm. These images should be stored on your personal network drive (Y drive).

 

Now, open PhotoStory and begin the process.

1. You will first import the images you downloaded from FlickrStorm.
2. You can then add titles and adjust the panning and zooming of images.
3. You will then be prompted to record your story over each photo. Using the script your wrote, you will need to determine the pacing and placement of your script over each image BEFORE you begin recording. Note: It is NOT necessary to record your voice over EVERY picture. How you narrate your story is up to you.
4. Once this is finished, you can use PhotoStory to create background music for your story. Be creative and have fun.
5. Finally, once your project is complete, you will export it to Windows Media format (.wmv) and save it on your personal network drive (Y drive). Name the file FirstName-LastInitial-NameOfStory (i.e. John M - Oregon Story). You will also need to save it to the designated folder in the R drive.

 

The process for creating a digital story with PhotoStory is covered in this printable tutorial. You can also look at some PhotoStory screencasts below.

 

Tutorial 1 | Beginning the digital storytelling process, corresponds to pages 1-2 of the tutorial handout.

 

Tutorial 2 | Removing black borders from images, corresponds to page 3 of the tutorial handout.

 

Tutorial 3 | Adding text to a title slide or image, corresponds to page 4 of the tutorial handout.

 

Tutorial 4 | Adding your voice narration.

 

Tutorial 5 | Customizing motion with Pans

 

Tutorial 6 | Customizing motion with Zooms

 

Tutorial 7 | Fine tuning motion in your digital story

 

Tutorial 8 | Adding transitions

 

Tutorial 9 | Adding background music-mp3's

 

Tutorial 10 | Adding background music-onboard music

 

Tutorial 11

| Finishing Your Digital Story

 

PhotoStory Tutorials courtesy of:

http://www.jakesonline.org/photostory.htm

 

 

Upload your Story to Wiki Page

 

 

 

Tips

 

• You can also create blank slides/images that would be great for a beginning title or ending title. Just choose the color you like, download it as an image to your computer, and import the image into PhotoStory. You can then place it anywhere in your story and add text titles to it.
• Be sure you test how your voice will sound before you record your entire story. You may need to adjust the input setting of your microphone.
• You can reorganize the order of your photos by simply dragging them around on the timeline.
• When setting transitions, make sure you set the duration to automatic. This way, the slide will show for as long as your recorded narration.

 

 

Assessment

 

You will be graded using the following scoring guide. Use this guide as a reference while you create your story.