This is my digital story telling experience.
I decided to just pick one of the online storytelling tools and go with whatever it had to offer. I picked Bubblr because it offered free images to work with. All I had to do was to enter some keywords in the search box and click go to get a pile of photos to pick from. The comic strip theme intrigued me. Here is the result
Obviously this did not turn out that well. The text is too small to read and the photos hard to see.
Here is a link that might show it better:
Seekin Adventure by Katie the dog
I remember creating comic strips as a young student and enjoying it so I thought I would try it here. I was very disappointed with the result and view this task as a failure. I was hoping for a visual presentation with images telling the story but I didn’t get the effect I wanted. The free images offered didn’t quite suit what I wanted to say. The images only didn’t relay the feeling of exploration or calmness the woods brings. Music would have helped. I think I will try using comic strips with ‘how to ‘ documents for professors. It might be fun but I don’t know how effective.
I also tried Animomo and found more success.
2 replies on “Digital Storytelling Reflection”
Hi Julie,
As you mentioned in Vista, even in failure there is often much to be learned, so it looks like this was still a valuable experience.
I don’t know that any of us have found the perfect tool yet, and so it’s good to just play around and discover the pros and cons of a few different applications.
Brian
Hi Julie,
I am glad that you included your failed attempt! I like the presentation effect that Amimono provides. It appears to be very effective in creating commercials or announcements. Using this type of tool could be effective for providing instructions for the use of a particular program as opposed to text instructions.
good job, Sandy