This week's assignment required the class to create and post a digital story. As I began my undertaking, I thought of all the different life events that I might use to create my story.
I encountered a number of challenges. To begin with, I found it difficult to narrow the topic to just one event. I pondered as to what would be the most interesting, amusing, thought-provoking, or what would produce the greatest emotional response.
Another challenge was in choosing a topic that I had enough material (pictures) to use in completing the assignment. After digging through thousands of photograhs, I found ten that would work. I scanned the photos into the computer hard drive. I opened the storyboard section of Photo Story and began to lay out the pictures. Once I manipulated the photos into a logical story order, I began to write the text.
My final challenge was deciding whether or not to use music. I polled ten people who voted eight to two against using music. Since this was to be my first try at making a photo story, I opted to just use the voice over and leave out the music.
This assignment was quite enjoyable, although emotional, for me. I will use the Photo Story software with my summer school students this week. I think they will enjoy it!
I posted my digital story to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAqRnnNy1-s. You Tube is a free website for the general public to upload videos.
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