Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Digital Story
I feel I have had quite an adventure with my digital story. I have never made one of these before and honestly I was very nervous about this project. I have never worked with movie software before and didn't even know if I had access to some so I procrastinated on starting my movie. To my great delight when I sat down on Sunday to begin my digital story I found my computer had Windows Movie Maker. I had cleared hurdle number 1. I quickly found hurdle number two was finding a microphone so I could add audio to my movie. At school on Monday I talked to my media specialist and she provided me with a microphone! I went home after school excited to clear this hurdle when I discovered my voice wasn't recording. Discouraged, I called my brother to complain and hopefully get some help. He showed me I had the microphone plugged into the wrong place and once correctly hooked up I was able to record my voice. Another hurdle cleared! I continued on to finish my digital story and was very excited about my master piece. I went to save it to a CD to find out my computer wouldn't let me perform that task. Almost ready to abandon ship, I emailed my movie to school hoping I could download it there. The next day my media specialist said she would help me download it and opened my movie only to find red x's where my pictures had been and no audio. At this point, I was ready to give up on technology all together. I went home at lunch and read all the help buttons on Movie Maker to figure out my problem. And guess what! I did! I found the correct option I needed to select to download my movie and it worked! I was so excited I took it back to school and showed my students because I was so proud of my work and I wanted them to see their pictures in my movie. And that is my digital story adventure! I sure do love a happy ending!
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3 comments:
Get story to tell! We all struggle with technology - most will quit. Thanks for not quitting! That is a sign that technology can become a part of your classroom -- technology is hard on us. When it works it is great, but when it doesn't it is very difficult to like. Thanks for sticking with it and Congratulations!
I too was completely new to the program, recording voices, and coordinating it all into a video. It was fun but very time consuming. It would probably get much easier the more I do. Still not sure how I would use it for 2nd graders or a 2nd grade class. I am just glad I have a general understanding of how to make them.
Sara,
Thanks for your reflection. You actually told my story. The good thing about this digital storytelling project is that it revealed part of myself to me. Thus despite all the difficulties associated with it, it brought me joy and satisfaction.
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