Windows Movie Maker is a great tool for our students to make short videos--probably for OC class. Suzanne Ludlum from Oakland Adult Ed showed us how her students make Digital Stories. Here are some results:
http://storiesforchange.net/stories
The idea is for the student to pre-write her story and then think of a sort of story board.
She can easily find images on Google images and save them or import her own pictures.
You insert your pictures, apply video effects and transitions, type over them using titles or credits or title overlays, and then use Audacity to narrate your story. You can have background music as well.
I'm quite interested in becoming more adept with this and after Moe gets other more pressing tasks under control, I want to work with him on this so that I can do a demo of it for interested teachers, OK?
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I learned of a similar program that lets students create stories with PhotoStory3. It's a free downloadable Microsoft product that is very easy to use. Within the program, students can select, edit, crop, and sequence photos, then add background music, titles, and narration. It was easy enough for me to do on my own! and I immediately thought of office applications such as a "show" about how to check in at SAL.
I just checked the Movie Maker and the PhotoStory.. I will include it in the LAB PC software list.
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