Digital+Storytelling

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This is a digital storytelling project I completed. It tells the story of taking a math test in a class of mine, and a problem that I ran into. It is almost like listening to my thought process as I work through this math problem.

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Completing this project allowed me to explore and learn a new skill and program. I had never had the opportunity before to narrate a slide show, and found it a welcoming challenge. I found certain trouble in recording the audio as far as the quality went, as well as taking quality photos. There is certainly much more that goes into quality photography than one might think at face value. One must always take into account lighting, as well as shadows, direction people are facing, and subtle things such as body language of those in the picture. All these things were taken into account when I was working on this project. A new program that I was able to learn was Photo Story 3. This opportunity happened because of being shown iMovie in class and it being recommended to use, however owning a PC, I was unable to use iMovie. I downloaded Photo Story for free from the Microsoft website. I had set time aside to try to learn the program and figure out the tricks to making an effective slide show. Almost immediately I found how easy to use this program is. The program is set up as a list of steps. Step 1 is importing the pictures to use, Step 2 allows you to arrange and apply effects on any pictures you wish to modify, and so on with the remainder of the steps. I found this extremely easy to use. I had spent some time exploring iMovie, and could not figure out how to import pictures instead of video. Photo Story 3, however, made this the first step with an easy to follow navigation to use. Photo Story 3 was definitly a good choice to use for this project. I was happy to have the opportunity to learn and use it, and plan on using it further in the future for many different applications.