Photo Story: A stick mans journey

A photo story is a collection of photos and videos that tell a story or convey a message in a digital format. In the creation of the photo story below I used Photo Story 3, which is a great little program that is free to download off the web. Photo story 3 allows you to customize every aspect of your video without having to mess around with a theme. An interesting feature is the ability to create your own music based off a selection of choices. In the photo story I mainly use the Funk option with several twists. Photo stories have many uses in the classroom. Using photo story 3 students could design videos to demonstrate their knowledge of the subject or to teach the class a new topic. They are also useful for teachers to teach their kids in a fun digital way.

This photo story would be used in a middle school class to attach a fun idea to a dull topic. In the photo story I follow two stick men that run into each other, accidentally squaring themselves. I like to think of it as two clones becoming one. In the end of the photo story the stick men enter the square root and exit as a stick man. The idea behind the video is to teach squaring and square roots in an easy and fun way to learn.