For my digital story, I had two choices; I could create a
digital story for my Accelerated Reader program or for Open House for the
beginning of school. I decided to create
my first digital story to share at Open House.
For starters, I strongly dislike public speaking. I can talk to my students all day long:
however, if I have to address my peers in a public forum, I become extremely
anxious. Either way this rough draft of
my digital story had my head spinning.
I began using VoiceThread but I wanted to add seamlessly music
and not just my voice. So then, I tried
using Photo Story 3 and Windows Movie Maker at the same time. I uploaded all the pictures and screenshots
and began moving them around. Photo
Story 3 is linear and when moving pictures around was cumbersome. However, Movie Maker was nonlinear and I felt
like I had more space to maneuver.
The hardest part of this journey was taking pictures that I
thought would be useful in my digital story.
However, the trickiest part of creating my digital story was trying to
do the narration. I had issues with the
sound on my laptop. Then I would try to
record my voice and the microphone stopped working. I decided to try music. Since I am extremely indecisive, selecting
music that I thought would match took more time than necessary. Below is my "ruff" draft. I intend
to add my voice little by little maybe one slide at a time.
