1. Sultan Qaboos University
College of Education
Department of Instructional & Learning Technologies
Microsoft photostory3
Module
Done By :
Asma Baqi 90761
Iman Bait Said 89815

2. Introduction:
Photostory is free software from Microsoft. The collection of three lessons gives you the
opportunity to investigate, experiment with, and create a digital story that is illustrated with
still images and audio. Photo story involves useful elements of video production such as
writing, imaging and editing. They will help guide you and show you how you can create
your slideshows using digital photos. With a single click, you can touch-up, crop, or rotate
pictures. You can also add special effects, voice narration and personalize them with titles
and captions. Small file sizes make it easy to send your photo stories in an e-mail or watch
them on TV, a computer, or a Windows Mobile–based portable device. Lessons are
designed by Captivate program and other assistance programs. It demonstrates step by
step for the learner (using captions, notes & screen shoots). It contains three lessons: the
first lesson is about how to open the software, import new pictures, rearrange them, add
text and save your work in each step., The second one is about how to edit your pictures,
narrate them and customize the motion and the last one is about how to add transitions,
background music, and save your work.. Also it includes objectives & instructions for using
this instructional module.
Purpose desired outcomes:-
To improve classroom instruction through the implementation of technology.
Desired outcome(s):
By the end of this course, participants will have :
1. A better understanding of how to use and create a photostory.
2. A completed photostory for use in classroom for the upcoming school year.
Objectives:
By the end of this instructional module you will be able to:
 Open Microsoft Photo Story 3
 Import new pictures to your story
 And rearrange them
 Add text
 Save your work in any step
 Edit your pictures
 Narrate your story
 Customize the motions

3.  Add transitions between pictures
 Add background music
 Save and publish your story
Learning outcomes Process
1. Outcome 1:- 1. Group think and discuss
The instructor will :-
By the end of this module,  Present a question to the group.
learners will have a better  Ask for everyone to think about his or her
response to the software.
understanding of how to use
 Ask them to discuss the question in pairs.
and create a photostory. .
2. Preview display prior photostories
The instructor will
 Share with his learners some of previous
photostories.
.
3.Brainstorming
Learners will have opportunity to choose topic of
photostory creation.
4. BREAK
5. Wrap-Up
Learners will share his/her photostory topic
2. Outcome 2:- 1. Create new Folder
2. Locate and save images (using powerpoint)
By the end of this module, 3. Open photostory (new project)
learners will have a completed 4.Create Photostory about the chosen topic
photostory for use in classroom
for the upcoming school year . a) Import images
b) Captions
c) Narration
d) Merging
e) Slides

4. f) Music
g) Other features
5.Save and Publish photostory
A.Convert photostory (if necessary)
6. Submit your photostory to the photostory Dropbox
( tech tool for uploading and sharing information)
Self Assessment Questions:
1- What type of MS photostory related to?
2- How could you use the keyboard and Mouse and use their
Function in MS Word?
3- When are you using MS Word, How could you get help from
The software without using Internet?
4- I your view, what fields that you can use MS Word in it?
Let us start
Content 1 :-
You can import pictures from your computer, a network folder, or an MSN Groups Web site.
For each story, you can import up to 300 pictures, which can be files with .bmp, .dib, .eps,
.gif, .jhif, .jpe, .jpeg, .jpg … etc
Your pictures appear in the film strip (timeline) at the bottom of the page. If you import more
pictures, Microsoft Photo Story 3 adds them at the end of the film strip.
Also it provides feature to remove unwanted borders from the pictures after you import
them it will be shown blew the import picture button

5. Please watch lesson 1 :- http://goo.gl/Y9YbX
Activity:-
1-Import and Arrange Your Pictures.
a. Clicking begin new story then import picture.
b. Clicking begin new story then next.
c. Clicking begin new story then help.
2. After importing picture, where your photos appear? (one word)
3. You can remove the black borders in the import and arrange your pictures step.
a. True
b. False
Feedback:-
1. Clicking begin new story then import picture.
2. Timeline or what we called the film strip.
3. That’s true after importing picture remove black borders button will be display.
Content 2 :-
Add Narration And Custom Motion You can record up to five minutes of narration for each
picture in your story (optional). You can narrate the pictures in any order you want and if
you do not like the narration for a picture, you can delete the narration and record it again.
(see Fig 3.) Deleting the narration does not delete any of the other enhancements made to
your story so far! (You can also type notes for each picture to aid your memory as you
narrate!)
By setting the motion manually, you can select the general areas of a picture that will
appear at the beginning and end of the picture's video clip. In the Customize Motion
window, you can also do one or more of the following: - Specify the number of seconds

6. that a picture without narration is displayed when your story is played. (The settings you
specify in this dialog box only apply to the selected picture.) - Specify whether a picture
starts playing with a transition, and select the transition. - Specify the number of seconds
that a transition is displayed when your story is played. (The settings you specify in this
dialog box only apply to the selected picture.)
Please watch lesson 2:- http://goo.gl/fNN65
Activity 2:
1. Photostory does not contain crop image feature
a) True
b) False
2. 2- How you can set a duration ?
a) Customize motion then set duration automatically
b) Customize motion then set number of seconds to display the picture
c) Customize motion then set end position to be same as start position.
3. 3- How many minutes of narration for each story? (one word)
Feedback:-
1. False it contain the crop feature by clicking on edit the check the crop.
2. Customize motion then set number of seconds to display the picture
3. Up to five minutes.
Content :-
Adding Background Music To Your Story You can add background music that plays during
your story. A different piece of music can play for each picture or for a group of pictures.
You can add as many pieces of music to a story as there are pictures in the story. (Though
this will increase the overall time it takes to save the finished story and the actual size of
the file too.) There are two types of music you can add as a background to your story.
WMA, MP3 and WAV You can use music from your computer such as WMA, MP3 and
WAV files. Photo Story will then make your story as long as the music you are adding. So a
3:30 minute MP3 track will mean a 3:30 minute Photo Story... Please note though that if

7. you are trying to use a DRM (Digital Rights Management) protected track, this will NOT
work with Photo Story 3.
Please watch lesson :- http://goo.gl/xJPLr
Activity :
1. After adding a title to your picture and clicking next what will appear ……
2. You can’t control the volume of the music.
a) True
b) False
3. In the last step of the project after viewing your story what you should do before
exiting?
A. Click exit only
B. Save the project then exit
C. Click cancel
D. Click help
Feedback
1. Adding music to your background
2. False
3. Save the project then exit
Resources
o Http://goo.gl/jkgmo
o Http://www.jakesonline.org/photostory.htm
o Http://www.techlearning.com/how-to/0022/how-to-create-slideshows-with-the-free-
photostory-3/44023