Priscilla, Synera and I have decided to create a digital story about the different forms of media enhancement, such as still images, video, animation, narration, music and so on, for digital stories. Our idea is to compile and illustrate them in a short video, but, rather than an a how-to video format, we want to create a story in a more entertaining way.
Our first task was to create our own definition of the term digital story, and I believe we are satisfied with what we have done. We also brainstormed ideas to create an outline of how the story is going to be told, which is very general, however it enabled us all to have a more clear and common understanding Of what we are doing.
Right now we are looking into programs to create the story, and we have iMovie, ScreenOMatic or Camtasia, and Animoto in mind. As S... and I were not familiar with Animoto, we were supposed to play around with it in order to decide if we think it is useful for our project. I created a little video there just to check the features they have, and it is a nice software, very user-friendy.
Another concern of ours is related to copyright issues, and since we are supposed to model and teach ethical behavior for students, we might as well follow our own discourse! We are, therefore, in the process of finding the media resources we want to illustrate. I am responsible for drawing some of the images we are going to use, and I am using the Adobe Ideas app for that purpose. Another task is to find an alternative for GarageBand in order to create audio.
Regarding how we plan to work together, we intend to use GoogleDocs to write the scrip of our story and to further discuss and develop our ideas
I agree, I'd love to have a little class discussion or lesson on copy right laws and how to properly borrow and use other people's media. Thanks for sharing the aninmoto is user friendly. I'll add it to my list. I am thinking of having my students use it!
ReplyDeleteI love your Idea. It is interesting that you are taking the time to define digital story telling. i think that is a wonderful place to start. Digital story telling is a vast medium. By taking the time to explain to explain to your audience your groups interpretation of digital story telling, you have begun to tell the story itself. Love it, love it, love it.
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