 |
||||||||||||
 |
|
|
||||||||||
While I will have some constraints (I'll be teaching from a set syllabus and text), I'm fortunate in that I will be teaching for a department that encourages the integration of digital/new media composition technologies into writing courses. Additionally, I will have the opportunity to hold two of each week's four class meetings in a well-appointed and well-maintained computer lab – PC, not Mac – but you can't have everything, I suppose. My main concern as far as implementing a digital storytelling assignment in the fall is the learning curve – how can I best help my students learn to compose digital texts while also teaching them to use the many different technologies/programs that can help them develop those compositions? That's a new – and intimidating – teaching situation for me. What are your thoughts about audience and voice? At first, I thought I'd have to concentrate less on the "voice" of my digital story, since – thanks to GarageBand and a temperamental microphone – that "voice" was my own. As I worked to construct my product, though (as I edited and adjusted the volume of my voiceover track, as I deleted snippets of sound and substituted other, newly recorded cuts, and as I layered music and other sound effects behind my voice to emphasize and complement the words and images I'd selected), I realized that I was putting just as much, if not more, effort into constructing the voice of this piece. Describe your project and your workshop experience. I chose to compose my digital story about sharks, and specifically about my fear of them. I hope to assign a digital story in my writing course in the fall, and my goal was (and is) to use my "Sharks!" story as an example for my students. Because of this, I tried to find a topic that would be at least somewhat familiar to most students, one that was general enough to allow me to find a wide range of information and material online to construct my piece, and one that would allow me to incorporate both humor and seriousness, jokes and educational content. That, and sharks scare the crap out of me.
|
||||||||||||
 |
||||||||||||
