photo story & audacity

Audacity and Photo Story are two programs that I have been learning about lately. The social studies course I am currently taking required us to do a group presentation this week in class. We were each given articles to read, do research on, and share in the form of a presentation. We decided to survey several children and ask them what they think a good social studies teacher does. In order to share their responses, I had to download a program to record their voices. This was going fine until I inserted their clips into my group's power point and emailed it back to her. What do you know... and the clips were not working from my group member's computer. I had saved the files incorrectly. So, we finally discoverd that I needed to email them to her so she could save them to her computer and then reinsert them in the power point. That solved the problem and we were able to successfully present our power point. I plan to use audacity now! I really like its simplicity. It is easy to use and easily accessible.
Photo Story is the other program I am working toward learning how to use. Our class recently published a book. I want to record each child reading their page of the book while viewing the pages being turned in the book. A girl in my social studies class did this with Is There Really A Human Race? It was precious! I am hoping to scan the photos in this weekend and get started on it. I think it would make a great literacy center for my kindergarten children to visit as well as a sweet end of the year gift to my children. After all, this is their book!