Digital Storytelling
My favorite project was the digital storytelling.  In order to make it more meaningful and purposeful for me, I did a project for my mom.  I had to scan pictures onto my desktop computer at home, save it to my flash drive, and then download it onto my laptop before I could do the project.  I had trouble saving the pictures from my scanner.  Of course, I didn ALL of the pictures before I realized that.  I went to bed frustrated, but then I had an epipheny.  I could copy the pictures onto my flashdrive (something I had learned from this course).  In the morning I tried it and VOILA! it worked! Frustration gave way to relief.  I used multiple computers to do this project and was thrilled that I knew how to port information from one source to another. My laptop had a microphone jack as well as the headphone jack.  I used the desk top at home for the scanning, and the two labs on campus to finish the project.  Using the Photostory 3 from Microsoft, I put together a presentation with pictures, narration, subtitles and music.  I even found out that I could vary the music throughout the presentation.  I had to narrate a few times because the acoustics in some places were inadequate.  I am very pleased with the way it turned out.  
I would like to use it in the classroom to make special presentations for the kids.  What a great way to document a year- maybe I will do a DVD for the class to keep.  


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