Digital+Storytelling+Project+KM

My Digital Story is called Stranded, and it is about how my car broke down on the side of the road on the way to school. I decided to tell this story because I did learn a very important lesson on this day; that just because everything did go exactly as I planned, everything still worked out fine. I think that many people can relate to a situation like this in one way or another, which will make the story intriguing.

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During this project I learned how to do many things, for instance, I took all of the photos myself. My camera has a timer function on it that helped me to take the pictures without assistance. And to get the proper angles I was able to use a ladder and some packaging tape. I had never done my own pictures in that way before, but it was easy to set up the shot on the screen and then set the timer. Another skill I learned while creating this project was photo editing, to combine two photos, in order to create a sense of communication between two characters (my father and I, and then my father and my brother).I felt like this was an important element in my story in order to help my audience see the connection between two people. I simply used the windows paint application, opened one image, and then created some space before pasting from a second image. Then a third skill that I was able to learn from creating this project is how to add audio to a slide show in order to make it more captivating. Making sure the audio and the images match up perfectly is very important when it comes to creating a digital story. If it’s off, even by a little bit it could throw off the rest of the story and then view would lose interest almost immediately. I feel that these will all be valuable skills for my career in education, and that I will be able to use them one day in my classroom to help the students understand the material.