Step-by-Step video editor
MovieMaker or iMovie
Here are some steps for putting together your Digital Narrative with iMovie or MovieMaker2:
Write your script in GoogleDocs:
Write your script (or upload a Word document) and share it with Dr. Barrett: eportfolios@gmail.com
You could use this document as a template:
Share -> Invite People (and click Send)
Select some images to go with your digital narrative. Here are some good websites to get Creative Commons images:
Flickr search (select "Only search within Creative Commons-licensed content")
Either download the image files, or copy the URL address of each image.
Download MovieMaker for your version of Windows (or use iMovie on the Macintosh)
Go to this Microsoft website for a tutorial on how to use MovieMaker:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/videos/create.mspx
Here is Dr. Barrett's web page How to Create Simple Digital Stories
If you don't use the recording feature of MovieMaker (or iMovie), use Audacity to record your audio and insert the audio into the program
University of South Florida's Tech-Ease Audacity Video Tutorials
Only when the Narrative is completely finished, you will need to save your narrative in .WMV format.
Where to publish digital stories online using one of the video sharing sites
http://www.youtube.com (15 minute maximum video length --a very public space... OK for your students, but you might not like to post there)
http://blip.tv/ (I have a group of movies stored there: http://eportfolios.blip.tv/ )
http://ourmedia.org (a community of individuals dedicated to spreading grassroots creativity: videos, podcasts and other works of personal media)
How to share these stories with each other
Tutorial To Upload Video In YouTube
How to Upload a Video to YouTube (2 minute YouTube video)
How to upload a file To Blip.tv (6 minute Blip.tv video)
To add a link to this VoiceThread into a new blog entry:
Copy the URL for your movie and paste it into the body of your blog entry, and turn it into a link (using the chain link, paste the link again).
For WordPress.com users, to embed the video in your blog entry, you will need to use VodPod Firefox Extension for WordPress. See another page for more detailed instructions.