On Friday, August 27, 2010 I attended one of the school web conferences for my multimedia and video technology class. I have mixed feelings about the web conference, but overall I feel they are worth viewing.
First, the information was priceless because the syllabus had already been changed twice and several classmates and I had already been discussing the information posted on Epic Player, the different syllabi and the various emails. Compiling the information into one location is needed and the web conference helped with that.
What I did not like about the video conference is the audio. Often the audio will go out or there is background noise because someone needs to mute. The typed conversations are great, but I have to be careful not to get caught up in those and not pay attention to what is being said. I am more visual than auditory so I tend to gravitate to the written conversations.
Overall, I like to attend the video conferences. If my schedule does not allow me to attend it live, I pull up the recorded session. Often when I am talking with other classmates, we get our clarifications to the assignments from the video conferences.
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Creating My Personal Digital Story
I have worked with Photostory 3 before when I created a video story for my church's Vacation Bible School family night. We had taken the pictures from the week and compiled them with the VBS music theme to show parents on family night. Photostory is a very simple program to use. It is simply drop in the pictures and the music.
Since I had experience in using the program I was not stressed over the assignment that required me to utilize Photostory to create a story. However, I stressed over what to do. I love taking pictures of nature and my family so it only seemed natural to select one or both of those topics. My vacation to Alaska seemed to be the perfect choice. I found the information in Joe Lambert's "Digital Storybook Cookbook" to be challenging to me yet a great guide. It was challenging because I have a tendency to work backwards. I start with the pictures and figure out how to build my story with the pictures I want to utilize. This time I started with what story I wanted to tell and then found pictures to support my story. The great things was I had thousands of pictures from my trip to choose from.
Source:
Lambert, J. (2007, February). Digital storytelling cookbook, 1-30. Story Center. Retrieved August 27, 2010 from http://www.storycenter.org/cookbook.pdf
Since I had experience in using the program I was not stressed over the assignment that required me to utilize Photostory to create a story. However, I stressed over what to do. I love taking pictures of nature and my family so it only seemed natural to select one or both of those topics. My vacation to Alaska seemed to be the perfect choice. I found the information in Joe Lambert's "Digital Storybook Cookbook" to be challenging to me yet a great guide. It was challenging because I have a tendency to work backwards. I start with the pictures and figure out how to build my story with the pictures I want to utilize. This time I started with what story I wanted to tell and then found pictures to support my story. The great things was I had thousands of pictures from my trip to choose from.
Source:
Lambert, J. (2007, February). Digital storytelling cookbook, 1-30. Story Center. Retrieved August 27, 2010 from http://www.storycenter.org/cookbook.pdf
My Alaskan Memories Video
In June 2010 my family traveled to Alaska together on a cruise. The sites were spectacular and the experience was one I will never forget.
or you can view directly from You Tube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqXWSJGo9es
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