Using photostory to improve reading
- 1. Using Photostory 3 to Improve Reading By: A. Najib Tuanany
- 2. What is Photostory 3? Microsoft's Photo Story is a free Windows program that lets you create audiovisual presentations out of your photos and images. 2 You can quickly crop, rotate, and edit your pictures; personalize them with captions and titles; and add sound effects, narration, and background music.
- 3. How can it be used in language learning? Especially reading 3
- 4. Teaching English is not easy because it requires motivation and creativity in order to make a good condition and achievement of English learning and teaching goal. Students in junior high school still find difficulties in reading. For example, when the students read a text, they cannot comprehend the text because the text is very long. For that reason, the students need and interesting techniques to improve their reading comprehension. 4
- 5. Some ideas for using Photo Story 5 Create visual mini-lessons Create fun ways to teach objectives Create short story or novel synopses Create a movie to introduce yourself to the class Create a movie about describing thing or place
- 6. How to use it?
- 7. 7 Select begin a new story
- 9. 9 You can record your narration You can change the way the pictures transition
- 10. 10 You can select or create music for background
- 11. 11 Finally, export it as a movie file
- 12. 12 An example of Descriptive Text Using photostory 3
- 13. 13 Compared to this text. Which one is more interesting. Reading this text or the photosory version?
- 14. Thanks! 14