Lights! Camera! Action!
I can proudly say that this week I completed my fourth Digital Story (DS). This time I created one for my technology in education class. Now I must admit after completing three DSs I thought this project would be a breeze. I should have know better because technology is not my thing and no matter how proficient I may think I am with iMovie, I always run into some sort of issue.
For this project I thought it would be effective to focus on a civics VA S.O.L. I choose the SOL 3.11 because I thought that being able to show students an example of serving the community in a video would be easier for them to understand. One of my good friends at school is in ROTC and she loves to volunteer, I thought this would be a perfect opportunity to showcase her as the perfect citizen. I made her sit outside the library with me and interviewed her. It was a sunny day and there were lots of people walking by and the clip of our interview was far from perfect. "Oh I'll just edit the clip and stick it into my DS I thought to myself." I put off dealing with it for the moment, thinking I was the DS master and could handle anything involving iMovie. Well I was wrong. As I mentioned before this was fourth DS, but it was the first time I had tried using a video clip and not just pictures and audio. Not only did I have no idea how to edit the clip, but I could not even figure out how to get it into my iMovie track. Needless to say I was very frustrated.
Yes this project was frustrating but, now I think my issues with editing the clip were for the best. Because I could not edit it I only used the very end and decided to tell Alex's story myself instead. I think telling it as a story ended up making it more relatable to third graders than an interview might have been.
If you would like to check my DS out and hear Alex's story, go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLhTuy3lJQQ
If you are interested in learning more about what a digital story is visit the University of Richmond's Digital Storytelling blog!
Richmond Digital Storytelling
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