Telling Stories

This weeks topic of digital storytelling was really very intersting. I looked at the assignment prior to doing any of the reading and was definitely a bit scared. I am fairly comfortable on the computer and with technology but do not have a clue when it comes to making a "movie". I really thought that I was in for a long week trying to figure this out! So, I took a step back and decided to do the reading and look at various samples. The reading was very informative and looking at the various examples made me realize that i might actually be able to make a digital story! With this relief then came the pondering of ideas. What could i make a digital story about? The beter question was what pictures did i have access to or could i take and what kind of digital story would i be able to use with my students? After a lot of thought, i decided that a science related story would work well for my students and thought that i would have an easy time finding pictures of a butterfly and the various life cycles it goes through. Although it took me a few hours, i was pretty pleased that i was able to come up with an idea and start to create my story. Photo Story 3 proved very easy to use (so far) and i have already found and loaded all of the pictures for my story. After completing this portion of my story, i took a break to meet with my group and will continue with my story throughout this week with hope that the rest of the process is made easy with photo story!