Giving it a second try
After our first attempt to create a digital story that didn't really please anybody, my group and I decided to put on an extra work in order to improve what we had done. I believe that our major problem was due to the fact that we didn't have good equipment to create our digital story, and, therefore, we ended up having a few problems, specially concerning audio quality.We had also made the choice not to use anything already available on the Internet; however, starting basically everything from scratch greatly increases work and the chances of having problems with the final product. And, in all honesty, it seemed like our efforts not to include material that didn't belong to us weren't all that important at the end. So it makes me consider what aspects of a project we fail to see because the lousy parts take all of our attention...So, in our second video, we ended up using video and audio with the proper citations, which is much easier and better, I must say. Besides, it was actually funny to see Synera under a blanket recording the audio, so it wasn't like I had to endure such a horrible time with this extra work, I actually had lots of fun with those two! But the whole experience made me think it is OK to fail at doing something since we recognize your mistakes and are willing to work on it, which is a valuable lesson to me, because I am too hard on myself most of the time.Furthermore, I also learned a lot of lessons with our first project: 1. It is easy to miss the good aspects of something when there are so many bad ones there (I believe our script was very good!); 2. Priscilla needs a new computer; 3. Synera's bathroom doesn't have good acoustics; and 4. we are such a great team that we had a good time recording the most "boring"video! (yes, I remember somebody commented it was boring....lol). Joking :)
After our first attempt to create a digital story that didn't really please anybody, my group and I decided to put on an extra work in order to improve what we had done. I believe that our major problem was due to the fact that we didn't have good equipment to create our digital story, and, therefore, we ended up having a few problems, specially concerning audio quality.We had also made the choice not to use anything already available on the Internet; however, starting basically everything from scratch greatly increases work and the chances of having problems with the final product. And, in all honesty, it seemed like our efforts not to include material that didn't belong to us weren't all that important at the end. So it makes me consider what aspects of a project we fail to see because the lousy parts take all of our attention...So, in our second video, we ended up using video and audio with the proper citations, which is much easier and better, I must say. Besides, it was actually funny to see Synera under a blanket recording the audio, so it wasn't like I had to endure such a horrible time with this extra work, I actually had lots of fun with those two! But the whole experience made me think it is OK to fail at doing something since we recognize your mistakes and are willing to work on it, which is a valuable lesson to me, because I am too hard on myself most of the time.Furthermore, I also learned a lot of lessons with our first project: 1. It is easy to miss the good aspects of something when there are so many bad ones there (I believe our script was very good!); 2. Priscilla needs a new computer; 3. Synera's bathroom doesn't have good acoustics; and 4. we are such a great team that we had a good time recording the most "boring"video! (yes, I remember somebody commented it was boring....lol). Joking :)
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