This week I researched some blogs for my assignment about digital storytelling and technology and posted the link to Jenny Wakefield's blog on our college discussion board and to the right of this blog post. Wakefield's blog has a video about a dove with what I call "very busy music"--with bongos, xylophone, and tambourine included, befitting a dove's movements. Wakefield's blog is titled Technology and Instructional Design. She also added a video explaining Photo Story 3 and some of the capabilities of that program, like importing pictures and rotating them properly right on that site instead of prior to importing them as well as the capability of adding animation to your video. Wakefield's degree is in “Teaching and Learning with Technology, and her ambition is to become an Instructional Designer, so she is following along with technology."
I've learned a great deal about the video games available on the internet for people of all ages, including very young children, and that these videos for young children are geared not only to the young children, but also to their parents who will probably play the video along with them. I am particularly interested in writing for very young children--I've always loved children's books, particularly Charlotte's Web and Jonathan Livingston Seagull. I am happy to discover that there are many educational blogs available on the internet that can educate and even train students and other interested people in the audience, and I found so much more than the blogs too--fantastic children's videos--for the child in us all! Here is the beautiful YouTube Video with Neil Diamond singing Be from Jonathan Livingston Seagull--listen for the crescendo of the music while the waves are rising as Jonathan finds his way back to land at nightfall!
Here's the beautiful Charlotte's Web Video from YouTube with Bob Carlisle and Lucy Kane, singing Make A Wish:
I'm learning about how digital storytelling is useful for teaching and training in Miller's Digital Storytelling A Creator's Guide to Interactive Entertainment course textbook as well, and it all ties in nicely! I have had the experience of creating two videos for the Digital Storytelling course that I'm now taking, and, even though at first I felt a bit overwhelmed by the course requirements, I found that it goes very well with the Mythology and Modern Life course that I'm taking to fulfill my English BA degree as well since one seems to be able to find virtually any subject on video on the internet. I was thrilled to find that the YouTube Jonathan Livingston Seagull video here includes in Diamond's song the words "Sungod" and "Holy, Holy, Sanctus, Sanctus," which are from different religions or according to Campbell, myths. I am so happy every time I watch this video!
The first one-minute video using Animoto was much less challenging than the three-minute video that I created using Jing, Camtasia and finally, producing on Screencast.com, but I now find it an extremely creative activity and plan to do more videos and will share them on the Internet.
References:
Miller, C. H. (2008) Digital Storytelling A Creator's Guide to Interactive Entertainment Elsevier, Inc.
Wakefield, J. (2009) jennywakefield.wordpress.com/2009/09/20/digital-storytelling
Jonathan Livingston Seagull-Be YouTube. Neil Diamond, Singer. By jonathanseagull28
Charlotte's Web YouTube Video from Waldenfans. Bob Carlisle and Lucy Kane, Singers, Make a Wish
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