Digital Story Reflection

The digital story was complicated. I knew about the software I was using, and had no problem getting the pictures to the video clip. It was a little bit hard to sync the pictures in the same timing as the narration to reflect what was being said frame by frame, but it was done. The big problem was uploading it to Youtube. I've had copyright problems with Youtube before, but mainly just e-mails stating that their may be some copyright infringement in the video. This happens all the time, especially with the audio portion. I decided to make the video private, but if it gets taken down once public I'll have to revise it. It's easy to avoid copyright infringment by flipping the video horizontally, which I will consider doing.

Digital Story

Here is the link to the youtube video of the Digital Story created by Neil Carroll and I. It covers the Gettysburg Address: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQgizdlQcOc

Post Blog (Feb 24th)

At the end of class today, we actually have some physical pictures and an audio for our video. We're putting our ideas down into something that we both feel good about.

We'll continue to get more pictures, and fit them into our video at the rate time to reflect what the audio is saying. It shouldn't be too bad to edit them, as I've used MovieMaker a lot.

Work since Tuesday

In the time between Tuesday and today, I haven't had a lot of time to work on the digital story. I still have the main idea, and know it will be completed before it is due, but so far no physical progress has been made.

On Tuesday, we developed an idea, and designed how it is going to look. I'd like to actually start putting things into movie maker today, and get something I can save to work on more later.

End of Day 1

Today we actually got a good amount of work done. My partner and I were still working on a couple of setbacks in both our lesson and our digital story; and we got back on track in both areas. We have a good idea for the digital story which I feel comfortable with; and our lesson plan is all set up. All we have to do is finish our power point and then put our ideas into material.

Digital Story Day 1

Last class we prepared our ideas for our digital story. My partner and I have the Gettysburg Address, which limits us on our creativity. We have to stick to the actual, factual speech, and not just create on a broad subject.

I have not bought the book yet, but I have dealt with video software before, so I do feel confident about being able to make one.