Microsoft's Photo Story is a free Windows program that lets you create audiovisual presentations out of your photos and images.

1. Using Photostory 3
to Improve Reading
By: A. Najib Tuanany

2. What is Photostory 3?
Microsoft's Photo Story is a free
Windows program that lets you
create audiovisual presentations
out of your photos and images.
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You can quickly crop, rotate, and
edit your pictures;
personalize them with captions and
titles;
and add sound effects, narration,
and background music.

3. How can it be used in
language learning?
Especially reading
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4. Teaching English is
not easy because it
requires motivation
and creativity in order
to make a good
condition and
achievement of
English learning and
teaching goal.
Students in junior
high school still find
difficulties in
reading. For
example,
when the students
read a text, they
cannot comprehend
the text because the
text is very long. For
that reason, the
students need and
interesting
techniques to
improve their
reading
comprehension.
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5. Some ideas for using Photo Story
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Create visual mini-lessons
Create fun ways to teach objectives
Create short story or novel synopses
Create a movie to introduce yourself to the class
Create a movie about describing thing or place

6. How to use it?

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Select begin a new
story

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Import pictures

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You can record your
narration
You can
change the
way the
pictures
transition

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You can select or
create music for
background

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Finally, export it as a
movie file

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An example of Descriptive Text Using photostory
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Compared to
this text.
Which one is more interesting.
Reading this text or the photosory version?

14. Thanks!
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