Digital Story
A Miracle Named Sheila
When I first realized this was the class we were going to take next, I was excited. I love working with video and knew I would enjoy learning new information about what my videos were lacking. Starting the Wednesday before, I began checking EPIC to see if assignments were ready to be accessed. Unfortunately, they didn't update until 12:00 a.m. on our starting date.
Once I accessed the assignment, I began my brainstorming. I could talk about a lot of stuff, but my son suggested I tell about Sheila. He said he could see how much this student had affected me by the light in my eyes when I talked about her success. So I wrote the script. It went through a few revisions before the final. I decided music would
be a distractor so I didn't use any. The next issue was pictures. I didn't have a clue what I was going to use. Once we returned home on Friday, I began going through all my pics and the pics on our school's common drive. No use. Nothing fit. The next morning it hit me. I would go to the school and take pictures of the guidance office, the texts we used to study, and Sheila's actual work.
The next step was learning iMovie. I am a Mac user but have never used iMovie so I took the opportunity to learn the program. It was user friendly for the most part and what I didn't know, I found a how to video. I think my only issue with this was getting the timing correct and the correct words with the correct pictures.
I do have a lot more practice to do before I feel I am a semi-pro; however, once this activity is in the hands of the students, we find out what Pro really looks like!
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