This project was by far my favorite one of the course. I think I can definitely use this weekly in my classroom. I downloaded an app called Splice on my iPhone and pretty much just started playing around. I first created a short project and taught myself how to add a title page, video, photo, and a transition slide. With the transition slide you can choose the direction you want a photo or title page to appear, the length of the slide, with 10 seconds being the max. I could crop my pictures within the app on each slide and edit it with ease. The hardest thing was trying to make my story flow knowing that I had only 10 seconds for each slide. Sometimes it felt that 10 seconds was not enough and other times 10 seconds was way too long. I rehearsed many times and had to go back and edit the times for certain slides and when I needed a little more time, I added a transition slide before and after a photo.
When I was finished, I just hit the video to export and it showed up with the rest of my photos on my phone. I did have trouble sending the file to actually get it to my computer. The file was too big to e-mail and I tried to send it to my you tube account through an SMS text, but that wouldn't go through either. Finally, I had to hard wire my cell phone to my laptop and download it onto my laptop so I could upload it onto my blog. Other than hard wiring to my laptop, this project was made entirely with my phone and was so easy to do!
P.S. I enjoyed this project so much that I created another digital story for my husband for fathers day. I included family pictures and short videos of our son. He loved it, as did I! I was very proud of myself!
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