When we started this class Dr. Schmidt told us that our digital stories could only be 2-3 minutes long. I was really nervous because I didn't think it was possibly to have a beginning, middle, and end of a story in that short of time, let alone that it would allow you to connect with your audience. However, on Friday when we watched the examples I was astonished at how much you can accomplish in 2.5 minutes! I'm eager to try my hand at this new technological tool. I'm particularly interested in making my digital storytelling a personal narrative so I can truly connect with my audience. With the idea I'm planning to use I'm not sure I will be able to add in a dramatic question- there is definitely a 'question' but I don't know how to build my story to make it come to an end as the question is being answered.
As for my future classroom use, I think using iphoto was a great way to make digital storytelling a little less complicated. For a large, more time consuming project I could see using imovie, garage band, etc... but for smaller projects it seems as though iphoto makes a better choice. I particularly like how we came up with our captions. My group's photos made me incredibly nostalgic and our captions made a point to address this feeling. Overall, I'm really excited to try my hand a digital storytelling and am eager to use it in my future classroom.
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I absolutely loved using iphoto to make our books! It was simple to use, yet turned out looking great! I am a little worried that using imovie and garageband is going to be a bit more difficult, but with everything we have learned, I am willing to give it a shot as well! Hopefully we will figure out that it is actually fairly simple to use and will be a great asset to our classrooms!
ReplyDeleteThe dramatic question I think should only be added if it is going to add to your project. The whole point is that these stories tell something about us without being over-burdened by time and nonsense to clutter the story. If the dramatic question doesn't add to your digital story, then don't use it. You can ask a question or many questions but I don't think you need just one though. For a short project it does take a long time to make it though!
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