Creating a photo story with Windows Photo Story

Stories made out of photos are a good way to describe an event, make a presentation, or create a storyboard for a movie made out of scenes. In our course, in Module 5 Being a musician, every student will have to build a presentation of his or her favorite artist, based on some photos of their performances, albums, and so on. I will use as an example Antônio Carlos Jobim, the great Brazilian bossa nova composer who left a great part of his work available to the public, after his death, at http://www.jobim.org.

Photo Story 3 for Windows is a very simple software application that can be used to create videos out of photos by combining audio, text, effects, and transitions. Simpler than Movie Maker, it can be used by younger students as it provides a step-by-step interface that guides the user through to the final publishing of the video. In case it is not installed on the school's computers, we will need to ask one of the administrators to download...