Digital Artifact example: Photo Story is one of Microsoft's best kept secrets. This free software package can be downloaded from  Microsoft. Using Photo Story, you can create slideshows using your digital photos. With a single click, you can touch-up, crop, or rotate pictures, remove red-eye, add stunning special effects, soundtracks, and your own voice narration to your photo stories. Then, you can personalize them with titles and captions.

Another great feature is to “MERGE” PowerPoint with Photo Story. Using the features of PowerPoint, WordArt, backgrounds and numerous images/clipart on each slide, a technology integrated project takes on a “video/movie” life. First you create the slides in PowerPoint and at the conclusion, save the file with a name and the file type is JPG file Interchangeable Format (.jpg’s) This can be accomplished by changing the file type. Once the slides are individual pictures, create your Photo Story video using the images (.jpg’s).

When the Photo Story has been created, it can be played on a PC using Windows Media Player. Photo Story will bring your project to life as a video. Having fun with projects and pictures!