These past 8 weeks have flown by! We had the opportunity to create a digital story from start to finish including steps for brainstorming, writing a script, making a storyboard, and finally making the video. It is actually a project I am starting with my students right now. They are creating one on their favorite part of their summer. This project gave me a great insight into how to lay it out and set up the final project. I'm excited to see how theirs turns out.
I really enjoyed working on the info graphic. I chose to make one on the Cardinals, something fun to me. I did experience quite a bit of trouble with it though. I couldn't get any of the programs suggested to work. That's when my husband came to the rescue. He makes info graphics all the time as part of his job. So he helped me learn a little bit of Photoshop and InDesign to create my final project. I have to say it ended up being a blast and I loved finding information to put in there.
I think I would have liked to learn one more type of project we could use. I had already gotten a feel for digital stories from a previous class, so that being spread out over a few weeks felt like it drug by. I did like the convenience of that though :)
Overall, I really enjoyed this class and getting more opportunities to be hands on with a few more tools!
The info graphic was a great project - and so versatile! I can see a lot of kids really enjoying making one for many different classes and projects. I agree the digital story did seem to drag since we had also experienced it in a different class, but I did like experiencing it from the student perspective and actually creating one as opposed to simply setting one up from the teacher perspective like we did before.
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