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Personal Digital Story - Created for EDLD 5363, Week 1 Assignment

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Personal Digital Video Script:

 Making our way to our seats, we waited, and waited. The stands were filling, there was a buzz in the air. Finally, an announcement, the crowd gets quiet. Words from the American Red Cross, the base Commander, and finally the Company Commander. I was getting anxious. Across the field you could see the Fort’s motto on a billboard, and then a loud explosion. Then the colored smoke…out of the smoke they came! Over 1,000 soldiers storming Hilton Field through the smoke. Through tear filled eyes, I watched awestruck as Company A – B – C – D – E – and F ran toward us. Each company in its formation, the commander then says the Pledge, and the next words I hear are “Families, find your soldier!” What a moment to see both daughters together again. A dinner at base headquarters is followed by an afternoon of site seeing. All too soon it is time to take my soldier back to her company commander and Echo Company, home of the Eagles. Time to relax, and even some sisterly competition. And all too soon it is time to say goodbye.



__**Digital Story Reflection**__ This week’s assignment was initially a bit intimidating, to create a personal digital story. As I read the week’s readings, my fears diminished somewhat as I looked through the multitude of digital photos I have taken over the past few years, pictures of family events, scenery, work related activities, and some pictures that I categorized as “just pictures.” Using PhotoStory3 also helped in reducing the fear factor of making a video. I have used PhotoStory3 several times to make videos of vacations to share with my family, and as I thought about the assignment, I knew what I was going to do, make a video of my daughter’s graduation from boot camp. I felt a bit like Rick and the Recipes for Disaster as described by Joe Lambert (p. 31), more photos than I really knew what to do with. The use of the storyboard and the built in features of PhotoStory3 helped to focus the direction I was going to take with my video. I enjoyed this project, and can see how this type of project could be incorporated into the classroom. What better way for students to demonstrate what they have learned than by putting it on film, even digital film.

Lambert, J. (2007, February). //Digital storytelling cookbook,// 1-30. //Story Center//. Retrieved April 4, 2009, from [].