Using Photostory to write winter poems

Posted Tuesday, January 23, 2007 8:18 AM by kent-teachers

Microsoft's free PhotoStory has been around for sometime now. It  enables the user to produce creative and informative presentations using still images as the starting point. As the software is simple to use pupils are motivated and able to produce excellent pieces of work to support their learning right across the curriculum. It is also great fun!
Click here to go to the Microsoft page where you can download PhotoStory

Stretton Handley Primary School, inspired by photographs they saw of winter scenes, used PhotoStory to create winter poems.
Click here to read their poems  (Windows Media Player 10 or above needed)

Staffordshire ICT  have put together a help sheet for pupils  using PhotoStory. It includes an assessment chart at the end.

There are some useful tips too on the following website:
http://www.windowsphotostory.com/

Please let us know how you are using PhotoStory and links to any published work.

We would be interested to know if you are using PhotoStory, so please tell us by leaving a comment below. You may also like to leave a link to presentations your pupils have created.

Mandy

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Comments

# re: Using Photostory to write winter poems

Thursday, January 25, 2007 3:26 PM by Sally

I used the poems as a stimlus for my class to write their own poems today.

# re: Using Photostory to write winter poems

Saturday, January 27, 2007 11:15 AM by Andrew

We use PhotoStory scross the year groups. We find it motivates the children to write better poems. We also use it to write about school trips and science investigations.