http://www.tech4learning.com/pixie You can narrate each slide, then
combine them into a show much like Photostory, but with perhaps more
control. My only complaint is with the Save process which requires you
to save each slide, which is arduous. They keep promising a fix but it
hasn't happened! Tech4Learning has also created an online subscription
tool called Wixie. http://www.wixie.com/wixie With a subscription you
can create your projects online.
Jenni
Jenni Swanson Voorhees
Director, Lower School Technology
Academic Technology Coordinator
Sidwell Friends School
202-537-6994
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Subject: digital storytelling software?
If you are on Win7, what are you using to create digital stories?
Here is what we have found out since our upgrade.
The new Movie Maker does not support narration and is difficult to work
with regarding sound files in general. The 2.6 version which is
recommended to work with Win7 will lose files in an project and has
other problems that make it unstable.
The newest version of Photostory does not work in Win 7. Some say it
will, but we get errors and it won't start up. Digital Image 2006 has a
version of Photostory that supposedly works, but is it only a 90 day
trial, then costs$ and it sounds like they will not support it much
longer.
We are piloting PhotoStage and think is probably our best solution right
now. It is not free, but the cost is not too bad.
We know about several online free websites, but we want software that
is very versatile and don't want to students to need to create online
accounts.
Thanks,
Jill
Jill R. Brown, PhD
Director, Educational Technology
Albuquerque Academy
brownj@aa.edu<mailto:brownj@aa.edu>
(505) 858-8831
6400 Wyoming Boulevard, NE
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87109
Fax (505) 828-3320
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