My Digital Story Experience

Christmas with the DeFrenzas

I chose to do my digital story on Christmas traditions with my family. Christmas is a very special time for our family and I believe that it makes us closer. It is a way for us to spend time together and to enjoy our family and the season. I had a lot of fun doing this project. I took pictures off my phone of photos from my family photo album and it really gave me a chance to look through our memories.

iMovie Reflection

I used iMovie to create my digital story. I have used iMovie before, so I was fairly familiar with it. However, I did experience an issue with the narration aspect. Initially, I recorded my voice without any problems. But when I was trying to record another section of narration it would not play. I ended up figuring out that I had record my voice twice and double up the recordings in order for one to play. I am not sure why this happened; however I got through it and succeeded in finishing my assignment with all of the requirements.

Every other feature of iMovie worked smoothly. I simply dragged in my photos, added in my songs, and uploaded the videos from YouTube after I converted them to a MP4. It was also very easy to overlap text into photos and videos. Thus, besides the narration glitch I thought the process was enjoyable and rewarding.

In the Classroom 

I would definitely assign a digital story project to my students. I could use this tool for many assignments in my English class. For example, one could be a digital story explaining a book that they read for a book review. I could assign a group of students a book or allow them to choose their own and tell them create a digital story about it. They would need to include narration, pictures, music, text and any other features that they feel would be helpful to aid in their explanation of the book.  This will be great for the students to use their creativity, explore more in depth about the book, and learn about other books after watching their classmate’s movies. Digital stories are an excellent way to integrate technology into the classroom and to allow students to employ their creativity. 

Christmas with the DeFrenzas