Hello again,
I hope you're all doing well. This week I'll be talking about the digital story I made with my dear friend Cansu. The story is titled Where Is Our Book. It's meant for younger audiences. My friend mostly handled the creative part while I mostly handled the digital part. And, this was by far the longest task we had to do and the process was the most complicated one, so I'll go over it step by step.
Firstly we wrote the script. Then we used a website called storyboardthat to create the visuals. Then we used Adobe Photoshop to cut and resize the images. After that, we recorded the lines and chose the background music. We used Audacity to edit the voices. Then we used a video editor that comes free with Windows 10 to create the video, add sound and special effects. Finally, we used another editor called FilmForth to add transitions between the images and for a few finishing touches.
While it took time to prepare, as we had to watch a lot of tutorials on Youtube, it was one of the tasks I enjoyed doing. Creating digital stories can be a good way to teach students English, especially to younger learners. A digital story like this can get students attention easier than another classroom activity. And with older students, they can prepare their own digital stories on whichever topic they want as long as they do it in English, and I would tell them how to do so, of course.
Anyway that all for today, take care!
