Photo+and+Video


 * Digital Storytelling **
 * __ Photo sharing __**

Most 23 things programs (the original name of the Web 2.0 course) use this module to explore the photo sharing program Flickr, which allows people to upload and share their own photos online and also allows people to use other peoples photos using a creative commons license. This is very helpful when you are looking for a specific kind of photo for a website or presentation and want to stay copyright compliant (most photos you find using Google images are copyrighted and therefore you cannot use online without permission.) Because Flickr is blocked in our county, we will explore other ways that we can share photos online and on our blog, BUT if you are interested in using Flickr, check out this great video explaining how it works.

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You can find many ways and reasons why you would want to share photos in your classroom. One of the obvious is to share photos with parents and students. There are many programs that allow you to upload and create slideshows that you can then send to people via email, embed on your blog or webpage. These slideshow programs are also great to use with students to create digital stories, which are just what they sound like, a story told through pictures (and sometimes video).


 * Embedding ** is the act of publishing media such as a slideshow or video clip WITHIN a blog, wiki or webpage. The **embedded media can be viewed, played or "interacted with" directly ** inside the blog post or the wiki page -- instead of being a link that requires you to download the media or takes you to a different webpage to view it. Every video you have watched as part of this course has been EMBEDDED.

**__Digital Storytelling __**

Digital Storytelling is the “art” of telling a story using visuals, whether it is still photos or video. You could consider using a Slide.com show as a form of digital storytelling. Between video sharing sites, such as YouTube and TeacherTube and the ease of using video equipment such as FLIP video cameras there are numerous ways that you can incorporate digital storytelling into your teaching. Check out this website on Digital Storytelling in Education from the University of Houston. Play the video on the opening page (hint, press play on the video, then press pause, wait a bit for the video to load, then come back and press play).


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Check out this article for tips on adding Digital Storytelling to your teaching.Also check out the Wiki : 50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story for other examples of digital storytelling.


 * __ Photo Sharing and Digital Storytelling tools: __**


 * __ Slide.com __**

Slide.com is a program that is not blocked in our county and has many uses.

Go to Slide.com and create an account. Once you create an account click //Create// and then on //Create Slide show.//

Click on select images and find the images on your computer that you would like to use for your “story”

Once you have added all the images you would like to use click on upload, sometimes this might take a while if you have a lot of pictures. For this first exercise, I suggest only using 5-10 images.

The next thing is to choose what type of design you would like your slide show to be, which is in the box on the left hand side. Click on //View More// to see more choices and click on your favorite. My favorite to use with school pictures is “album” or “yearbook”.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%;">Next you can add captions to your photos. Click on the type under your photos to add a caption. It is best to keep these short.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%;">You can also change the order of your photos by clicking and dragging the photos to where you would like it in your slideshow.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%;">Once your slide show is how you would like it, click on save (get code)

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%;">On the next screen you can name your slide show and put credits if you would like then click **Save**

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%;">To embed this into your blog, copy the code in the box that says **Copy This Code**.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%;">Now you are ready to add this to you blog.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%;">To embed code on your blog add a new blog post. Click on the HTML tab in Blogger and paste the code that you just copied into your blog. You can write your post above the slide show code or after it. Save your blog as you normally would. When you view your blog, the embedded slide show should be in there.


 * __ Animoto __**

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%;">Animoto has become my FAVORITE digital storytelling tool. I use it to tell stories of what we are doing here in the media center and I have also had my 5th grade students use it to create book trailers for me (which I then saved, burned to DVD and played on the morning announcements). The FREE version allows you to create 30 second videos, if you are an educator you can sign up for a FREE educator account which allows you access to their PLUS account and also allows you to have access to 50 student accounts. To sign up for an educator account, click on EDUCATION in the lower left hand side of the site.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%;">To get a feel for this great resource, sign up for a FREE account while you wait for your educator account to be approved. Once signed in, click on the CREATE VIDEO button on the upper right hand corner to start creating your video.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%;">With Animoto you can add photographs and video clips to your movie. You can also save the finished movie onto your computer or you can embed it into your blog or webpage.


 * __ SlideShare __**

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%;">Sometime you have a GREAT PowerPoint presentation that you want to share with the world (ok, maybe just with your student’s parents..but still) there is a great site called SlideShare.com that will let you do this.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%;">Go to Slideshare.com and register for this site.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%;">Once registered click on UPLOAD.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%;">Click on Browse and Select Files and click on the PowerPoint file on your computer.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%;">The file will begin uploading immediately, this may take awhile depending on how big the file is.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%;">Once the slide show is saved, you can embed the show onto your blog (or Wiki) by copying the code in the EMBED box.


 * __ SmileBox __**

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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%;">This is another program that you can take your photos and videos to create a digital story. You need to download the program onto your computer to get started. The advantage to this program is you can work offline to create your presentations.


 * __ Assignment 6: __**

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%;">Play around with one or more of the digital storytelling tools listed above.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%;">Write a blog post on how you could use Digital Storytelling in your classroom.