Monday, October 27, 2008

Digital Stories

Create my own digital story? Yikes, more to learn!

Creating my own digital story was actually a lot more fun than I thought it would be. I expected to have a lot of trouble due to my lack of knowledge on the subject, but it was actually much easier than I expected. I was thinking that I would have liked to have had enough time to create a digital story I could use with students, but then I realized that is our next project for class.

I chose to create my digital story based on how I ended up as the owner of seven cats. I started out by taking pictures of each cat, then I dug out a few old pictures I had of two of my cats. Unfortunately, I couldn't find more older pictures of my cats. I would have liked to have used an old and a new picture of each one.

Next, I imported my photos to MovieMaker 3. I was shocked by how easy it was. I then added titles to each slide and recorded the words I had decided to speak for each slide. Lastly, I laid sound over the entire "movie." I chose to use Ozzy Osbourne's "Diary of a Mad Man" because I thought it was an appropriate choice for a digital story about how I ended up owning seven cats.

I'm still trying to come up with a subject for my next "story." I'm hoping to create a story that I can use in the future with my students.

1 comment:

Augiedog said...

Interesting music choice-atypical. I love the little stories behind each cat and their names are great as well. It would be a good movie for animal rescue foundations to have playing on-site.

Well done,

Anabel