Finish How-To Projects

I would like you to spend today finishing up your video How-To projects.  When I return tomorrow I will pass around a USB drive for you to copy your videos to.

The schedule for this week:

• Tuesday (Today): Complete How-To Video [Substitute]
• Wednesday: Begin Music Montage Video
• Thursday: Work on Music Montage Video
• Friday: Work on Music Montage Video [Substitute / Senior Trip]

Remember:  Stay on task.  If you have completed everything, find something useful or educational to work on.  Don't waste class time with games.

NOTE:  Tonight is Freshman Orientation and the computer lab will be open for parents to check out.  PLEASE take the last 5 minutes of class to pick up trash, straighten computers, put chairs back in order, etc.

Photo Story 3: A Portfolio Slideshow

Today we're going to begin using a free program (you can download it here) called Photo Story 3.  Photo Story 3 is a free presentation tool for creating digital stories with photos, text, transitions, audio narration and background music. It is a modern day version of show and tell or story telling.

You can select numerous photographs [in order if you prefer], add background music, narrate your slideshow, etc.  If you don't have music of your own, Photo Story has a build in "music creator" which will fit a variety of "moods".

Today we are going to create a slideshow using pictures of our projects from our portfolio's.  These include Photoshop, Bryce, Rhino, Sweet Home 3D, etc.  You can also include screen shots of HTML or Flash, or even your other creations (welding, woodwork, paintings, etc.).

To create a Photo Story 3 project:

• Launch the Photo Story 3 application
• Check "Begin a new story" and click "Next"
• Click "Import Pictures"
• Select the pictures you would like to use in your project and click "Ok"
• Click "Next"
• If you don't wish to add titles/comments to your pictures, click "Next"
• If you don't want to record narration, click "Next"
• Click "Select Music" and choose the MP3 file you want to use for your background music
• Click "Next"
• Select the folder you want to save your work to (I suggest Thawspace) and click "Next"
• Photo Story 3 will now build your movie file

Multimedia Greeting Card Template

If you are having serious difficulty getting your Flash "Multimedia Greeting Card" working properly -- or you need to start over... or the computer crashed... or any number of other reasons -- try downloading this Multimedia Greeting Card Template, opening it up in Flash, and customizing it to be your own.  In the "spirit of the holidays" I have even added the ActionScript in for you.  :)

We will be working on this project through Thursday.  On Friday, we're going to be creating a "Custom Mouse Pointer"; you may want to create yours in your Greeting Card.

The following is an example of the "Multimedia Greeting Card":