Presentation at the Texas Library Association Conference
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I made a presentation at the Texas Library Associating meeting on April 2 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in downtown Houston.
I created a set of web pages so the audience members could review my presentation materials later and you can find them online at:
The session was supposed to be a panel discussion with 2 other presenters in addition to me, but one of the folks was unable to participate and so the first presenter did her part on writing and then I followed with my presentation on digital storytelling. I would guess that there were somewhere between 100 and 200 people who attended the session, with most being librarians, although there were some teachers also, and many of the attendees were both teachers AND librarians. I had about an hour for my presentation so I was able to show several digital story examples and I also demonstrated how to use Photo Story 3 to show how easy it is to begin creating your own digital stories.
After my presentation, there were several questions from the audience that surprised me because we don't necessarily cover these topics on our EUODS website, or if we do, perhaps we should make the information easier to find. Here are some of the topics that were brought up:
After my presentation, there were several questions from the audience that surprised me because we don't necessarily cover these topics on our EUODS website, or if we do, perhaps we should make the information easier to find. Here are some of the topics that were brought up:
- I've heard that you can create titles in PowerPoint and bring them into Photo Story 3. Is this better to do than add title in PS3 and if so, how do you do this? (Easy to do and yes, it does give good results, but we don't show how to do this.)
- My students are already using Photo Story but they want to add animation. Can this be done? (The answer is yes, simple animation can be added to PS3 by adding sequential still images. I've showed this technique in some of my courses, but I don't think there's ever been any information on the website to show how it can be done.)
- When recording audio narration in Photo Story 3, can you keep recording over more than one slide? (Again, the answer is yes, you click on the next slide button on the screen and keep talking, but this is not obvious to many PS3 users and we don't address this on our site.
- How was the Pop-Up books video created? (I told the audience that it was created by using both PS3 and Windows Movie Maker. This led to the next question): How do you use both programs to create one project? (Again, this is something we cover in some of my courses, but is not on the website.)
So, the bottom line is that there is definitley some additional material that people are interested in that we don't currently address on the website, but I think we should.
Please post any ideas or suggestions you have about this.
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Good questions. When I created "Joel' Journey..." for the what kind of world do you want website I used powerpoint and then saved the pages as jpeg and dropped them into the photostory program. In doing that, I was able to create my background a bit more creatively than I might have with just photostory. Another reason to do this is to help ease students into digital storytelling. They are all used to powerpoint to the point of overkill so this is just a next step.
In the one about animations... are there an web 2.0 apps that could be used? I don't spend alot of time looking at that stuff but perhaps it is something to look into. Also most teachers know about claymation so I imagine taking the sequential shots is just an extension of that(and easier).
Teachers ask these questions because in summers there are activities that kids can take through kids colleges etc....
I am telling you Dr Robin, U of H could make a fortune if you provided little workshops for students or teachers on these things... had grad students go out and help do workshops in districts on these things.... Mostly it will be seen as another tech gimmic if people, like yourself, with the vision don't lead these workshops by having them see the potential for use in subject matter and the higher level skills that go into creating a quality product.
Great potential....
Dr. Robin,
I am sure you blew the participants away with your presentation since you are a wealth of information when it comes to digital storytelling. I am going to skip on commenting to any pf the questions that were posed because I am not at the level of animation, or advanced uses of Photoshop.
I do agree with Linda about you starting workshops. You could be quite instrumental for the surrounding school districts in Houston. As I mentioned on my mid-term project, there was an email from someone in the Federal Way, Washington school district that had workshops on DS for its teachers.
And by the way Dr. Robin, nice looking presentation. I hope my librarians were there because they are just the ladies I need to get hooked and help me spread the use of digital storytelling in the school. The presentation was very thorough. I imagine it is hard to find the right level that is not beyond everyone but challenging enough to make them want to learn more.
These folks are much more advanced than I am. I'm glad you were able to answer these quetions. Perhaps these questions can be added under Questions & Answers section of the "How to Get Started" tab on the website. What about including 3 components under this tab: hardware, software and questions & answers?
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