Emily's+Digital+Storytelling+Project

"A Rainy Day in New York City" is the name of my digital storytelling project. In 2007, a group from my high school participated in Close-Up and traveled to New York City, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC. This story is about our first day in New York City. Our first day didn't turn out quite like we expected it to.

media type="custom" key="4945057" My digital storytelling project required me to use many of the skills I have learned in EDU 290, Technology in Education. These skills included how to properly cite photographs, how to create an audio file, and many others. It also required me to learn new skills outside of the classroom. One of the biggest skills I learned, independently, while doing this project involved audio. When I first attempted to add my audio file of my story to iMovie, half of the audio file appeared to be missing. After this, I tried several more times, unsuccessfully, to fix it. I finally realized that the audio file was not incomplete; my clips were too short and didn't match up to the length of time of the audio. The skill I learned while creating this project was how to make the clips match up to the audio. This particular skill enabled me to place audio I had made on a different program and have my clips match the audio perfectly. Another skill I learned independently was how to use YouTube to my advantage. Because the video file was too large to directly upload to my wiki page, I had to find some other way to get it on my wiki. The obvious way to do this was to upload it to YouTube then embed it in my wiki. Before this project I did not have a YouTube account, nor did I use it that much. I had to figure out how to create an account and upload files to it. It was not that challenging of a thing to do but it was still something I had never done before. It was a little hard to figure out which privacy setting I should have but other than that it was simple. From there I embeded it into my wiki. Learning how to use YouTube to my advantage is a skill I will hopefully be able to use in my future classroom.
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