Directions for using power point and imovie 09 for digital story telling in the elementary grades.

1. Digital Story Telling March 2010 Brigid McNamee

2. Table of Contents Using Power Point Slides 3-7 Using iMovie to put Sound and format your Power PointSlides 8-16 Using the iSight camera Slide 17-22

3. Select Slide Layout Click on the slide layout tab and select the layout for your slides.

4. Lesson 1: Using Power Point Import your pictures from the desktop and add your text.

5. Select Slide Theme Click on the Slide Themes Tab and choose the style you want. You can change it at any time.

6. Tip for Class Projects If each student in your class is creating a slide. Have them pass in the slide as a power point slide and create a new slide show with everyone’s slide. Convert them as pictures all at once. Be careful when instructing your class to save that there is a way to differentiate among the slides: ie: apples ryan

7. Save As Pictures When you have completed all of your slides you can save the entire work as pictures. This will create a folder on your desktop with each slide saved as an individual JPEG.

8. Adding Your Pictures to iMovie When you saved as pictures it creates a folder with all the pictures in it. Drag the folder into iphoto. Open imovie. Create a new project. Find the camera icon.

9. Drag the photos into the movie project

10. You can make adjustments You can change the duration to make the picture show longer or shorter. You can change the effect…very cool choices!

11. The Ken Burns Effect The Ken Burn Effect zooms in on pictures. Select Fit if you do not want the pictures to zoom.

12. Record Voice Over Click on the microphone icon. Then click on a clip to start recording. It will beep 3, 2, 1. When you are finished recording, click on the clip to stop.

13. You can move and edit the audio You can drag the audio to where you want it to be in your video. If you need to adjust volume click on the gear and choose audio. You can manually adjust the volume.

14. Adding Music Click on the music note icon. Click on the iLife Sound Effects folder. Select the Sound/music you want and drag it to your movie.

15. Choose a Theme Click file, project properties. That will open the theme selection option. Select your theme and click okay. You can always change it Later.

16. Sharing your movie You have lots Of choices of how To share your Movie. If you are Going to burn a DVD send it to iDVD. If you are going To post it on a blog Chose export Movie Because you can make A smaller file size which Allows the video to load Easier on the internet.

17. Using the iSight Camera Click on the camera icon on the left. This will open a new screen. Click the capture button to record. Click done when you are finished.

18. Think in layers when building your project. Know how long your clip is. Know what background you want behind the clip. Create a background (with transitions if you want) that equals the length of your video clip. Drag the green screen video on top of your background. Click green screen.

19. Backgrounds You can use images from your iphoto You can use video clips You can use plain backdrops.

20. Getting the images for your backdrop To import a movie clip Select file, import, movies. You can have a movie already saved on your desktop. Pictures you get from your iphoto. Backgrounds are selected when you choose text. (See next slide.)

21. Adding Text and Background Select the T and drag a Text style to your movie Project. If you don’t to Have text you can delete The text and have a plain Background. The window to select back- Grounds will open and you Can change it.

22. If you don’t have green screen as an option…. Click on iMovie and select preferences. Make sure show advanced tools is checked.