Digital+Storytelling

My digital storytelling project is about track season my senior year of high school. It was the last meet, the meet that would decide who would be city champions. I love running and track is one of my favorite sports ever, so it was a very important meet for me. This quote is something that explains track all in two sentences, I really liked it when I first read it and thought it would explain my video a little better. Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character. -- T. Alan Armstrong

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I learned a new skill and a couple new skills within the first one that I learned. The new skill that I learned was how to use VoiceThread online. VoiceThread is a program that we learned about in class, but we never got to go in depth about it and actually learn how to use it. So I took it upon myself to learn how to use to so I could make my digital storytelling project. I had to register for it, which was free, and then I was free to explore. At first I had uploaded my pictures to iMovie and just decided to upload that to VoiceThread, but that didn't work. It didn't work because if I wanted to record audio then I needed to make a comment on each picture and I couldn't do that when all the pictures were grouped together. I figured out that I had to upload each picture individually. I then had to leave a voice comment on each picture so that my audio could be added into the movie. I also had to download a paint program onto my computer to make a title and reference page to add into my project. I tried using a regular word document and adding that, but it wasn't a picture so it just showed up blank. VoiceThread enabled me to upload pictures and add comments separately instead of having to say all of the narration at the same time. I could stop it and redo it if I wasn't happy with the way it sounded and it was really easy to move the pictures once I uploaded them so they were in the right order. I thought VoiceThread was overall pretty easy to use once I figured it out.