Photo Story 3 is an excellent multi-media presentation tool, espcecially if you need something you can use without being online. It offers a convenient and user-friendly platform for adding music and/or audio narration to digital slide shows. It is also convenient to add text to images.
Photo Story 3 is a free program from Microsoft that was designed to work with Windows XP. It will also run in VISTA, as long as Vista has been set up properly.
Although Photo Story 3 is a standalone program, and not an online application, it is not difficult to upload videos created in Photo Story 3 to the interent so they can be shared with a global audience. This can be powerfully motivating to learners. Here's an example of a video that has been created and then uploaded to Youtube. This one has been well done, and demonstates some of the engaging potential of Photo Story 3
Please be aware that the owner of this wiki works in a PC environment. This doesn't make any difference when it comes to the online resources that are listed here. The downloadable programs discussed here, however, are all for the PC. Please contact me if you are familiar with free Mac or Linux programs that support a UDL approach in the classroom. It would be great to add programs for non-PC platforms.
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