I am currently taking a course on digital stories. With the information from this course, I will understand how to create a digital story and integrate this with my reading lessons. I plan on having my students create digital stories on their school experiences and what goal they would like to achieve as they get older.
In this course I have created story maps, scripts, story tables and productions through iMovie. The stages can be found below. Click on the links to see the different stages. Some links will open in evernote the productions will open in youtube.
The Final Production - The Adventurous Ski Day
Click here to view it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
The Script - The Adventurous Ski Day
The Adventurous Ski Day
On a nice sunny Saturday I decided to drive 45 minutes to our ski resort in Girdwood. The drive was nice until ten minutes from the resort. The weather turned and started pouring rain. The roads were very icy and hard to see. I thought, “this might not be a good ski day with this weather. I hope it’s different at the resort.” I continued to drive and as I turned down the street towards the resorts, the roads started to dry up and become less icy.
I arrived at the ski resort and parked the car. As I looked out to the mountain, fluffy snowflakes were hitting my windshield. I was so relieved. It was perfect skiing weather. I knew there was a lot of powder on the top of the mountain waiting to be skied on. I put on my light goggles for whiteout conditions, took my boots and skis out of the car and geared up for an incredible day of skiing.
I took the chair lift up to the top of the mountain and skied all morning. It was the best powder I have ever skied in. Every turn was magical as I floated on top of the powder down the hill. I could feel my quad muscles burn every turn I took in this incredible powder. The afternoon I could barely move my legs from working so hard. I decided I needed a break and stopped for lunch. I ran into friends during lunch and decided to ski a few runs with them.
Skiing in powder and with friends was heavenly, until the second run. The weather started to turn. It started to snow harder than before and the wind started to pick up. My friends bailed and decided to ski the lower part of the mountain with good visibility.
I thought, “it’s not too bad, I’ll do one more run and then head to the bottom.” What a horrible idea this was. Why didn’t I listen to my instincts? I should have gone down and skied with my friends on the lower part of the mountain.
I took the chair lift up to the top and as soon as I reached the top of the mountain the weather conditions worsened. It was a complete whiteout, snowing extremely hard and not being able to see 2 feet in front. I couldn’t take the chair lift down, so I figured I might as well stay positive and pick a slope that I knew really well to get down the mountain.
I started down the mountain and stayed close to the high traverse. I knew if I could see the poles on the traverse, I wouldn’t go off into a gully or a cliff. I started down the mountain, made some turns hit a few moguls that I didn’t see coming and some air. I made some more turns, looked for the poles and skied blind half way down the mountain.
I finally reached the lower part and had great visibility. I skied the rest of the way being thankful I made it down safely. The visibility was fine and I didn’t want to quit skiing. I thought I could stay on the lower mountain and ski a few more runs. As I turned up the hill, I saw the clouds moving farther down the mountain. I knew the lower mountain would soon be covered in clouds and make it hard to see. I decided to finally listen to my instincts and stop for the day.
I arrived at my car, took my gear off and drove home safe and sound. The roads home were completely dry and I had a nice bubble of safety. I couldn’t have asked for a better ending to my adventurous ski day.
The Story Table - The Adventurous Ski Day
Click here to view it: https://www.evernote.com/shard/s225/sh/f4ccdc47-ac13-4719-a572-bcf00c22de65/91f20e35e57b795c8fae72d91eb1cde3
The Story Map - The Adventurous Ski Day can be found below the reflection.
Reflection:
I learned so much about creating stories through this project. When I first started this project I wanted a very exciting story. I wrote many stories, but never found one that would catch the audience.
It happened to be a recent experience and adventure that I ended up writing about. When I started my production, I realized I new the program name for iMovie, but I had no idea how to create a story, upload photos or voice record to produce a story in iMovie. I quickly watched a lot of tutorials from youtube. After I felt I understood how to produce my story, I started creating it. During my production I kept adding more pictures to my story. When I created my story table, I was imagining how the story would move. I was very wrong in thinking I had enough photos.
The next story I create, I will over judge when to insert photos into the production. It is a lot easier deleting then finding and uploading new photos.
With students it is important to plan a lot of time working on their first stories. It will take time for my students to find their photos and understand how iMovie works. It will also take time with voice recording and timing everything perfectly.
I am very pleased with my first digital story. After I was finished producing my story I had my whole family watch it for their reaction. Surprisingly I had them laughing at some parts of the story. I hope other readers find the story enjoyable.
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