Story+Telling+Assignment+RT

I did my digital story telling project on some pictures of baby ducks that I had. In order to create a story out of it, I did have to take a few pictures off of flickr of butterflies and flowers. The story is about a young duck named Gerald who gets lost from his family because he is chasing a butterfly.

Sources are for the picture of the butterfly and the garden, all other pictures were from my own personal pictures. media type="youtube" key="SFaUmjxbyLc" height="344" width="425" This project was a really great learning experience for me. I have a Mac book, but I have never really used all of the applications it came with like I-movie. This project enabled me to finally use I-movie. The skill that I learned was being able to put pictures together into a slideshow using I-movie, and be able to put a voice narration with it. I learned how to do this from just kind of playing around with the I-movie application on my computer. This was really cool, I was able to get pictures off from my camera of these little ducklings, and from online resources of flowers and butterflies, put them into I-photo so I could upload them onto I-movie and be able to put them together into a slide show with narration to create and imaginative story about the Samson duck family and little Gerald the duck. It turned out to be really cute and was quite simple to do once you played around with it a bit. The way I-movie was set up made it really simple to figure out what you were doing. I just had to drag and drop my pictures into the order I wanted them, choose how long I wanted my pictures to be on screen, and just record my voice while being able to view what picture was up on the screen. This is a really great tool and I am really glad that I figured out how to use it because it will really help me out a lot with future projects, or one day using it in my own classroom.