Podcast

This was a fun project, although kind of a hectic one. I watched a lot of YouTube tutorials before attempting mine. I also took many, many screen shots, so that I could edit out the ones I would not need or that were superfluous. I had my project all set up, then realized I could not insert the arrows I needed! It took me a couple of hours to figure out my dilemma: Open the clip in paint, use shapes to make arrows, cut and paste, and insert the clip back into the video. I was very proud of myself for figuring this out. Normally I would have spent several days fussing and wasting time trying the wrong things over and over again. I have discovered two very valuable resources during the projects of the last two weeks. First: YouTube. If you don’t know how to do something, go to Google, type in your question + YouTube, and boom, a video will appear instructing you in a solution to your problem. My second resource: The kid across the street. When I was making a digital story during week one, I had PhotoShopped a great picture of my house on fire. The use of PhotoShop was not required for the project, but I wanted that particular picture, and I had spent a lot of time on it. Probably not the best time to try a new skill that wasn't even required. After I had finally finished it, I could not figure out how to insert the darn picture into the digital story! I happened to ask the kid across the street about it, and it turns out he is a computer whiz. He suggested opening the photo in Paint, editing it, and then saving it as a PowerPoint slide, so I could insert it into the story. I remembered this from the week before, so I was able to add the arrows to my tutorial. I learned a lot from this project. It was kind of hectic at the end, because the original instructions said the tutorial had to be 2-3 minutes long, then we found out on Sunday night that it was actually only 2 minutes, plus or minus 10 seconds. Lots of last minute editing going on! I had to cut 15 seconds out. After all of the work, the rubric was incorrect anyway! Oh, well, like I said, I learned a lot. After the course is finished, I am going to revise my podcast and add the seconds back in. My mother says it goes too fast for her. What good is a video if it’s too fast for your mom?

Here is the link for the podcast:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax8w0MQ64MY&context=C37634e5ADOEgsToPDskKfsQMfphFSmc8jyc0n71Ho