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Week 1 PhotoStory Project: **A Mother's of her Childrenmedia type="youtube" key="oBL7cDAEBhI?fs=1" height="385" width="480"**

[|Week 1 Reflection on PhotoStory Project]
**Photostory Project for EDLD 5363**

This week’s project was a productive and fun one. I had used the Photostory software in the past just to add images in the past. I had never really utilized the different options. When I used them, it helped to portray symbolism to the story. In the readings from this week I focus on the comments in the from the Digital Storytelling Cookbook by Joe Lambert. I connected with Lawrence Anderson one of the peers in the class. We used the questions that were appropriate to the story that was closes to the storyline that we were providing. In doing so I was able to expand on my project. I visited my mother and found many photos that I never though existed. It took some time to sort through all the pictures. I still needed to search the Internet to find images that would allow me to communicate the meanings in my project. I did not know that Photostory allowed for the audio to introduce per photo and this was new to me. I utilized the crop feature to focus on the image, which allowed me to have a starting and ending to emphasize the meaning of the picture. Towards the end of the project I found myself playing with free audio. I had to lower the audio somewhat for the voice over to really come through. I found that using the software was a little new, but quite productive. I will use in the future in my job and for sending video gifts for the rest of the family.

Photostory Outline

1. Hardship of the time my mother and her siblings were growing up. 2. The support and love my grandparents showed their kids through hard work. 3. The introduction of my sisters and brother 4. Parent’s divorce 5. My mother’s advice to be successful 6. The success of her children in getting an education 7. My mother’s accomplishment in raising us 8. Goal accomplished time to relax.

In the creation of the project, we communicated with a peer and this included standard TL-V.D.2. //Organize, coordinate, and participate in an online learning community related to the use of technology to support learning.// In creating the actual video we used standard TL=III.A.5 //Design methods and model strategies for teaching concepts and skills that support use of multi-based tools such as television, audio, print media, and graphics.//

References:

Lambert, J. (2007, February). Digital storytelling cookbook, 1-30. Story Center. Retrieved April 4, 2009, from [].

Williamson, J., &. Redish, T. (2009). ISTE's Technology facilitation and leadership standards: What every K-12 leader should know and be able to do. Eugene, OR: International Society for Technology in Education.

[|Web Conference Activity]
I attended the web conference with Dr. Abernathy along with several of my peers on the 5:00PM session this past Sunday. In participating in this activity we were able to connect and collaborate with our professor and peers and share insights. Dr. Abernathy cleared up some minor misconceptions about the course. She is making changes and we now understand that we will be receiving assignments via e-mail. Some of us discussed the difficulty in posting to TeacherTube and Youtube. I noticed on my part that TeacherTube required a 24 hour wait time to post, while YouTube had a shorter turnaround of a couple of hours. The professor pointed us an example of a story telling on her personal blogsite at http://www. kabernathy.com. It gave us an understanding in providing symbolism to our video project.

The second week will consist of a podcast and can be a vodcast as was clarified by Dr. Abernathy. The remaining weeks we will work on our PSA.

In participating in the web conference this included standard TL-V.D.2. //Organize, coordinate, and participate in an online learning community related to the use of technology to support learning.//

Reference:

Williamson, J., &. Redish, T. (2009). ISTE's Technology facilitation and leadership standards: What every K-12 leader should know and be able to do. Eugene, OR: International Society for Technology in Education.