I have embraced the idea of using a story
telling format in teaching from the start and have really enjoyed the structure
and approaches provided in the text (it’s one book I WON’T be trying to sell
back to some other student on e-bay).
Doing it with digital media-that got me
scared. I wish I could say this is
getting easier, or at least more fun, but I can’t. While support is always an email away, it
isn’t using the actual devices or software so much. It is keeping track of the details required
to bring it all together- pictures, video, text, narration, music… the
mechanics of it all are still overwhelming (and way more time consuming than
they should be) me.
What worked in my favor was that I have a
solid grasp on my CE proposal and a very defined, workable time line for my
research. This gave me a clear path to
follow when beginning to storyboard.
A challenge I faced (again) was time. I get these grand ideas of what I want these
videos to look and sound like and then get completely bogged down. And of course my standard technical glitches
like dead scanner, fighting with Jing, trying to synch up the music and
narration. All problems everyone has, I
just take forever to work through them.
Some things I would have done differently
are all related to time as well. I
learned in video 2 that I have to be much more conscious of gathering images,
media and other things. And now, with
the final video, I have learned to also have a ‘plan B’. Nothing I planned to do worked out. I also learned the importance of fully
understanding your story before trying to create a video & setting it to
music or narration. I found the story
boarding particularly helpful this time and actually switched types to better
suit my needs. The story map was
enlightening as well. I understood
different formats would be more useful than others for different stories but it
was interesting to find that a choice could be wrong- and just not work at
all.
What I CAN say is that I am starting to see
how once I do get the hang of it and am able to produce things in a reasonable
amount of time- digital story telling will become a valuable tool in my ‘teacher
kit’.
Working my way slowly (very, very slowly)
toward that goal of easy competence, here is my final video about my
culminating experience proposal.
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