EDLD 5363 Week 1 Blog

This week’s assignments proved to be of great educational value for me. I have been searching for an electronic tool for making videos to view on a computer and for posting on public video websites without having to convert to a particular format. I viewed many personal digital stories from the links provided in the assignments. All of the stories were well designed and appeared professionally mastered. I used Photo Story 3 for Windows for my digital personal story. PowerPoint was helpful in creating my images that were used in my story. Now, that I know how to combine the software tools to create images and make videos the sky is the limit on what I can accomplish. Of course, I will need to enhance my imagination skills. I had to think very hard about my story and what I was going to tell. My imagination is quite simple and hard to jump start when faced with an assignment. Creating the images and making the video were enjoyable, but it seems that my voice needs some help for narration. Most often, I don’t like to hear my own voice. I feel that I need a sterner and clearer sound than what I hear playing back my narratives on the video. My colleagues will be happy for my new found knowledge because I can help them create lesson videos for their classes.