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Photostory
There are many inspiring and useful ICT recources that can be exploited when teaching and learning English as a foreign language. However, in this blog post I've chosen to restrict myself to one of all these recources. I'd like to recommend Photo Story and its usefulness in the education of English.
How it works
Photo Story is a Microsoft provided software, which is free and available for anyone who has a modern version of Windows, i.e. from Windows XP and onwards. This software is used for creating presentations out of digital photos. These photos could be own taken photos, scanned pictures or pictures found at the Internet. A useful sight on the Internet to find photos without worrying about the copyright issue is Fotofinnaren. This is an archive of photos which constantly grows larger and it is available to anyone. You'll find the sight on: http://fotofinnaren.se/
Besides working with pictures, Photo story allows to add narration, background music and many other effects. Once a photo story has been created, you will need Windows Media Player in order to able to play it. It's easy to learn how to work with Photo Story and the best part of it is that it'll cost you nothing, since it's freely downladable!
Instructions of how to use Photo Story are found at:http://www.rexnet.se/larwei1/it_stordammen/html/photostory/index.htm
Photo Story is downloadable at:http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx
How teachers and pupils can use it
The many different ways of how you could use Photo Story in your English education are more or less unlimited. As a teacher you are able to create a lot of different tasks to your pupils and here I'll give you a small selection of topics of presentations that I think could be approprate to work with at earlier levels:
How it works
Photo Story is a Microsoft provided software, which is free and available for anyone who has a modern version of Windows, i.e. from Windows XP and onwards. This software is used for creating presentations out of digital photos. These photos could be own taken photos, scanned pictures or pictures found at the Internet. A useful sight on the Internet to find photos without worrying about the copyright issue is Fotofinnaren. This is an archive of photos which constantly grows larger and it is available to anyone. You'll find the sight on: http://fotofinnaren.se/
Besides working with pictures, Photo story allows to add narration, background music and many other effects. Once a photo story has been created, you will need Windows Media Player in order to able to play it. It's easy to learn how to work with Photo Story and the best part of it is that it'll cost you nothing, since it's freely downladable!
Instructions of how to use Photo Story are found at:http://www.rexnet.se/larwei1/it_stordammen/html/photostory/index.htm
Photo Story is downloadable at:http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx
How teachers and pupils can use it
The many different ways of how you could use Photo Story in your English education are more or less unlimited. As a teacher you are able to create a lot of different tasks to your pupils and here I'll give you a small selection of topics of presentations that I think could be approprate to work with at earlier levels:
A positive part with using Photo Story in your English education is that it allows you to create learning situations that could be suitable to all your pupils. Photo story can be used as a creative tool in order to suit all pupil's levels of language.
- My holiday
- My pet
- My family
- My trip
- My interests
- Create an ending of a story
by Katrine Bergström
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