Mr P’s iPod blog

As part of their written work, my students have used Microsoft Publisher to turn some of their writing into what we call little books. (You can find a tutorial and Publisher 2003 masters for doing this on Simply Science if you are interested.) Once finished the children can print off multiple copies of their books for giving out to anyone they like. To spread the message wider though I thought, why not turn the books into online narrated books. Microsoft Photostory seems like one way to do this so I am getting the students to scan in their pages and then manipulate the pics using Irfanview before putting them into Photostory. Photostory does have the capability of recording straight into the program directly however because of the problems with classroom noise mentioned before I am going to try using the iPod to lay down the vocal track. That way we can also edit the vocals before including them into Photostory. To put the track in though you will need to use the music option to import.