Thing - 10

I spent some time trying to think of a story idea, I can think of lots of potential ideas for classroom use, book reports, historical summaries, personal interviews, and classroom introductions, but for myself I couldn't think of the perfect one for today.  Too many ideas and too much fun using the programs.  The organizers and the digital story are great tools to support a variety of learning styles and incorporate technology into the classroom.
 I finally settled on a sample book review, I'm not real happy with the outcome and as one of my reviewers noted my voice lacked enthusiasm.  Also noted by my reviewer and myself the review is too brief and I jump quickly to the conclusion. 

Here is the image of the story board, I liked using the organizer. 



I wanted to try Voice Thread but as far as I can tell, there isn't a free service.  I decided to download and use PhotoStory since I hadn't used it before.  The program is easy to use and has all the features and steps built in to make it user friendly.  The program itself is easy, finding the right images to use for the project took the longest time and is where I  ultimately cut back on my requirements due to a time constraint.   Depending on student projects I expect that finding the images and music would take more time than any other part of the process.  While Photo Story was easy to use Windows Live Movie Maker and I-Movie have more features and are fairly easy to use too.  I haven't tried PhotoPeach yet, but plan to just to compare the programs.
The Weebly website that I set up for the earlier activity does not allow posting of video on the free version so I'm including my video here.