Mrs. Raffetto’s Ruminations

Well, I just used Photo Story for the first time and it went rather well. I usually use Movie Maker because I’m usually after making videos with short video clips. I hadn’t actually considered making a photo slide show video before. So I gave it a shot to make videos for Father’s Day. I really like the results. It was easy to add narration, titles, and even music. I had my boys record a message to their Dad because he is deployed right now. When it was all put together, I simply emailed it to him so he could open it this morning. I also burned a DVD to send to him though that will take a while to get to him. In fact, Photo Story was so easy, I made 2 other videos for my Dad and (sort of) step-dad. I don’t think it took me a full 2 hours to do them all. The hardest part was deciding what pictures to put into it.

I already have several ideas flashing through my head on how to use this with students. After reading a book, they could develop a photo story for a certain section of the book – maybe the romance or conflict between characters, or a poignant part of the book – and they can chose a song they feel is appropriate to be in the background. They could write a story and use a program to illustrate a scene. Then those illustrations could be put into Photo Story. Maybe they create a poem and then use images that represent the poem to put into Photo Story. Then the student could read their poem while the images play.Or in History, they could use images from a battle and either narrate important points of the battle or set it to music again or both! This could be so much fun!!!

If you’d like to watch the video I made for my Dad, you’ll find it below. The song is from the movie Uptown Girls. My name is not Molly but the song is still perfect.

Father’s Day Video to My Dad