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Module III Application Software Productivity Tools for Educators Digital Media 1 . Microsoft Movie Maker Movie Maker is a free Windows-based video editing software program that provides tools you and your students can use to create, edit, and publish movies. You can edit and produce a movie from video clips, pictures, and audio files by dragging and dropping various digital media components into timelines and then adding special effects, transitions, and voice-overs. Movie Maker is a great product for creating digital storytelling projects with your students. A Movie Maker finished movie can be published in a variety of way, including to the Web, on a CD or DVD, or downloaded to a camera for playback on a TV. 2. Microsoft Photo Story Photo Story, also a free download for Windows, brings your digital photos to life. You can add stunning special effects, soundtracks, and your own voice narrations and much more to your photos and your digital storytelling projects. You can add dramatic eye-catching special effects to your photo stories and then personalize them with titles and captions. Files can be made small so you can attach and send your stories in an e-mail, publish them on the Web, burn them on a CD so you can watch them on any computer or Windows-based portable device. You can add enhanced photos you create in Photo Story with your own special effects and narratives to your Movie Maker videos — the two products work great together and the best part is both are free. 3. Microsoft Producer Microsoft Producer is an add-on for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 and 2007 that can help you easily capture, synchronize, and publish audio, video, slides, and images as digital media rich interactive PowerPoint presentations. Producer has content authoring features for your presentations that you and your students can easily learn to use. 4. Adobe Software A popular digital media production software application package is Adobe Creative Suite. The Adobe Creative Suite includes the widely used image editing program PhotoShop, the illustration creator Illustrator, the page publisher InDesign, Adobe Acrobat, and a number of other applications. Adobe’s popularity is due in part to its high performance on both Windows and Macintosh platforms as well as its industry standard Portable Document Format or .pdf file format. 5. OneNote Microsoft's OneNote is an easy-to-use note taking and information management program that is a natural fit for today's digital generation. You and your students can use OneNote to capture your handwritten thoughts and ideas in electronic notebooks. OneNote allows you to organize, search, and share your notes. You can share your notes, even with people who do not have OneNote. You can e-mail notes pages or publish entire notebooks to a Web site. Using a Tablet PC and OneNote, you can convert your handwritten notes to Word files. OneNote comes with a variety of templates to help you customize your pages and sections. You can choose from decorative backgrounds, watermarks, and more that you can easily customize.