EDLD 5363- Week 1, 1.1 & 1.2 Assignment Martha Martinez

Week 1.1  Personal Digital Story Script
Overview
In this assignment, you will use editing software and digital photos to create a short (no more than two minutes long and only about 150 words) personal digital story. You should first write your script and then find graphics or digital photos to tell your story. The visuals are more important than words. The visuals tell your story for you.
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Summer Garbage Digging with Cousins

The last day of school was always a day my cousins and I looked forward to. Other than looking forward to having a long and fun summer vacation, we all looked forward to going garbage digging at the two local elementary schools in Riverbank. It was something to look forward to! Like the saying goes “some people’s trash is other people’s treasure!” We all knew that on the last day of school, teachers would be busy cleaning out their classrooms. And they would always fill-up the trash bins with great stuff! Well you see, our pass time during our summer vacation was to play schools, so we needed supplies and what other way than to recycle/reuse what teachers threw away. We had colors, scissors, chalk boards, chalk, pencils, and most important printed worksheets. We had everything we needed to play school!

We would set up the school in our own backyards. We would have small improvised tables and classrooms. We always had two classrooms, and of course a designated principal. Playing school with my cousins was always fun! Sometimes we played every day. We just all loved school- I guess!

Amazingly, because of those wonderful experiences and our creativity, my cousins and I were all influenced to follow a career in Education. Most of us, if not all of us, were the first generation of college students in our families to obtain a degree. Interestingly, our degrees are all tied to the Educational Field.  It’s remarkable that we had our career goals set ever since we started our summer garbage diggings.  

            -Martha Martinez

Refelction on Digital Story:

I enjoyed creating my digital story because I used a new video software (Pinnacle Studio Ultimate) that I had just bought for another project I had in mind. It took me a while to get the justs of it, I had to go through the tutorials and examples. But once I started my Digital Story, it all blended together nicely. I really enjoyed working with this software, because it had many great tools to produce home videos from still pictures or video frames. I still need to practice with it some more, but I am sure that it has lots of potential. And best of all I could get creative and innovative with it. I also felt that making a digital story engaged me in the technology part, versus just the written form of presenting a story. Overall, I would definitely have my students create a digital story of themselves too.