June
2008
Video Diary!0
Took me a while to make a new post, huh?
For the past two weeks, we’ve been encouraged to make video diaries over how we’ve progressed into our road to teaching, and it was a nice experience! It was great being able to express oneself trying to time our voice with pictures and music. I only feel bad that I didn’t give myself enough time to use completely original photography. Flickr’d all the way, and I included artwork from one of my best friends. (You can see it in the credits)
My thoughts on Digital Storytelling in the classroom are absolutely similar to the commentary featured in this article. I feel this would be a very time-consuming task more because… you can’t just go to a computer and make one! I think I spent more time obsessing over how my video diary was gonna pan out compared to when I was DOING it! It’s a two minute video compared with about three hours of work on the computer and even longer thinking about it. It would be a powerful way to get children to make a creative writing piece come alive… or even if they want to share a story of their most favourite summer holiday experience. It’s a way to do News that can be archived!
I still remember seeing this one News by a girl back in Practicum last year, and it was such a fantastic one. She clearly thought about it… and it would have been nice to be able to see it again. Time is fleeting, and I’m sure if children are really encouraged to do their all, they’ll have a digital story they’ll be proud of for years to come.
My main concern is how they will make the voice-samples, though. I mean with my diary, I was lucky because I owned a Mac at home, but I can imagine the average children’s video diary would have quite a bit of chattering in the background. I would probably try to see if I can get one child at a time to rush to the computer lab to do their sample when they’re ready. If I really have the courage to try this in the future. Who knows? There are some really lovely resources on how to create video diaries online, such as this very useful step-by-step process. That’s just one of the many ways to go about it.
But enough of my chattering, here’s the video diary! (iMovie and Garageband were used, for those curious)
