Monday, March 26, 2007

For Our World

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-252899157170168364

For Our World - Matthew Stepanek's poem with narration by Bruce Wilson

The Gowanus Canal

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7826568595095610356


Nathan from Brooklyn, NY

Parts of the Violin

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5627230018528717171

Aaron Scott, New York City

Sunday, March 18, 2007

Digital Story Telling project (submit by March 26)

Project:
This week we'll use multimedia authoring tool to tell a story. You will need to use multimedia resources including images, sound, video, text, music, animation, and any other tools to communicate with the audience. Your mission is to use multimedia to tell a story to motivate and engage your students .

**You can use any multimedia authoring tools (e.g. Flash, MovieMaker, iMovie). If you don't know how to use any multimedia authoring tools, please use free tool PhotoStory (Download PhotoStory ).

**Suggestion:
1. Find a topic of a story in your field. Research how to integrate global perspective into this story.
2. Collect images for this story. You can use pictures you took or download rolalty free images from the resources we provided.
3. Generate narration for this story.
4. Use multimedia authoring tool (Photostory) to complete the story. You can download sound effects or music and add them to your story.

Photostory Instruction:
1. How to use Photostory to create a digital story movie file
2. How to upload the movie you created to Google server

Sample Digital Stories:

Resources: