Social Story PhotoStory

Now that we've learned how to create a digital story using Photo Story 3 for Windows, our MD400 class was asked to create our own photo stories, choosing from any range of topics.  I chose to create a social story for my preschool class.  Social stories teach a skill or concept using positive language in order to improve understanding of expectations in a social situation.  An example social story is on the right.

In my social story, I taught students in my preschool class language for important behavioral expectations, including cooperation, patience and kindness.  The pictures I chose consisted of some images of my students acting out the required behaviors as well as some candid shots of my students performing the behaviors throughout the course of the school day.  I also edited several photos using the crop tool and special effects, such as transition movements.  I created the title slide in PowerPoint and added special effects before converting it to a .jpg image.

I then created the audio by speaking my original text into a microphone, recording the words of the social story.  It was very helpful to use the notes section to read the story while recording.  Each concept and/or sentence correlated to a different picture.  Lastly, I created a music track from a list of selection, choosing an upbeat classical piano tune.

I enjoyed creating the story by integrating the text, visual images and music, and am happy to have a product that can be used with my students.  Not only can my students learn behavioral expectations through this digital social story, but they will love to see the product of their hard work in the classroom in such an interesting form!  After saving my work, here is the completed photo story: