Inspiration+KV

Below you will find a link to my Digital Story about Francis the Frog. This is a short story that will educate it's viewers on the life cycle and different developmental stages that a frog goes through. It was designed with younger viewers in mind and is meant to be a creative educational tool instead of just having a child read about it in a text book.



While doing this project I had to use my previous skills of researching and a finding reliable sources. It took some time to find websites that provided accurate information and was not something that someone just made up. Once obtaining such information again I used previously learned skills to search the photo website www.flickr.com to find picture representations for my story. Making sure to only use photos that gave the okay to adapted and use as long as cited correctly. It took sometime and messing around with the program Photo Story to create my actual story and put the sound to it because prior to this I had not done so. After completing this project though I am aware and found it to be a useful tool. I learned it just by trial and error and soon it all came together. This is something I can see myself incorporating into my future classrooms to creatively present new information. This program made it very easy to edit the options of photo duration, the motion of the photos, how the photos transitioned and zoomed in and out. It almost reminded me of using Power Point. When it came to recording the audio this program made it super easy with it's built in recording system! It self adjust the duration of the slide to the recorded audio and has a space available to type notes for you to read while speaking. It also gives you the option to add your own music or music provided by the program, there are lots of options to pick from as well as changing tempos and volumes. I really enjoyed working with this program!

I also learned the new skill of creating the story boards through Inspiration. I found this program to be very user friendly. It helped me by allowing me to organize/visualize my story before putting it all together. I think that this is another great tool and will try to find ways to incorporate it into my future classrooms, because I can see how it would be useful in many different types of projects not only digital stories. I learned this skill by the basic introduction we had in the classroom and then by going home and using it on my own. Seeing that it was very user friendly to me it allowed me to create my story board fairly easily and quickly.

You can view my Inspiration creation by clicking this document

Sources for information: 1. http://tooter4kids.com/frog.life_cycle_of_frogs.htm 2. http://library.thinkquest.org/11034/lifecyc.htm

Picture sources can be found by clicking this document.