Preparing+Photos+For+Your+Digital+Story

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__Task #1: Folder Organization__
It is always best to organize your work space and set up needed folders __before__ beginning a new project. This will save you time by helping to cut down on missing files, forgotten file locations, and broken links. In this first task, you will create several folders on your h: drive where you will save you work.
 * Open up your H: drive
 * Create new folder (to create a new folder, right-click on the screen, click on **New** -> **Folder** and type in the title: call this folder “**My Digital Stories**”)
 * Open your “My Digital Stories” folder
 * Create three more folders (these will be subfolders to the main folder called My Digital Stories) titled “**Images**”, "**Sounds**" and “**Digital Story Files**”

__Task #2a: Download/Take Photos and Save to Computer__
In this second task, you will save a small bank of pictures that you will use to create your Digital Story. __Option #1__: Use a digital camera to take photos __Option #2__: Download photos from Flickr or Yotophoto

[|www.flickr.com] http://www.sxc.hu/ http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/

To save photos taken from the camera, connect the camera to the computer and copy all photos to you “**Images**” folder
 * When using Flickr, to ensure that you are not using images that are copyright protected, click on “**Advanced Search**” and check the “//Only search within **Creative Commons**-licensed photos//” button
 * You can save photos from Yotophoto or stock.xchng directly as they are already filtered for free use.
 * Search for photos using a keyword search - To save photos from any of the above websites, click on the image to download a larger copy, right-click on the image and select “**Save Image As**”. Save the image in your “**Images**” folder.
 * Save or create 15-20 images

The content of the photos is up to you. If you are searching for photos on Flickr, try these sample topics (and keywords):
 * __Ancient Egypt__: Egypt, pyramids, sphinx, mummy
 * __Cell Division__: Mitosis, plant cell, animal cell
 * __Prime Ministers of Canada__: try any name
 * __Religion__ – try religious terms

__Task #2b: Download Audio/Music and Save to Computer__
In this second task, you will find and download music to use in your Digital Story.

To to download free music and sounds or those covered under the Creative Commons license, You can use sites such as: [|Freeplaymusic.com], [|The Freesound Project], [|ccMixter]
 * Music**

[|Sound Snap] [|Soungle] , [|FindSounds]
 * Sound FX**

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