Storyboarding

In class this week we learned a lot about actually making the digital story and what the content should be. We also talked a lot about storyboarding. Storyboarding has always been really hard for me becuase it is difficult for me to align the words and the pictures so i really liked the idea of filling the front and the back of a 4x6 card and that would make just about enough content for a 3 minute story. Last week after class i was pretty stressed about making the story, but after actually sitting down and doing the storyboard/brainstorm, it wasn't as bad as i thought it would be and i think it is going to be really fun to make the story. I also got on some of the websites we looked at in class and did a lot of exploring and found some really great resources with a lot of digital stories that i might want to use in the classroom. It's great to make our own story because we need to learn how to use the software, but i really like the one's that are already made that i can incorporate into my lessons becuase as a teacher i know that i am going to have so much going on. As a student i have all of these things that i have to do and i can't even imagine all that a teacher would have on their plate. Another great adjustment was that we were able to work with partners. A project like this isn't always easy to do with a partner, but i enjoy working with a partner because there are twice as many ideas and there is always somebody to bounce your ideas off of. So all in all this was a pretty good week and i'm pretty excited to actually start putting the story together.