What Did You Learn in Creating Your Digital Story?

Digital Storytelling: Final Self Evaluation (Student)

What did you learn in creating your digital story?

·  That there are two different sides of the war. Not all of it is fighting. Some compiled stuff.

·  You really have to work on one page at a time don’t do the whole thing

·  On the computer is harder than looks. People really get into what they are doing.

·  Making one working to start the process.

·  I learned how to make an Imovie really well and I had fun doing it to.

·  I learned how to put a digital story together.

·  I learned that having bone cancer is not a lot of fun. I learned that there are two main things to bone cancer.

·  Sometimes it’s not as easy as it seems.

·  Amputation can be caused by STUPID mistakes and following directions is IMPORTANT.

·  How to cut the videos and add things. It was really fun.

·  I learned a lot of things like don’t let everybody else do the work instead of you.

·  I learned how to use this kind of technoligy. I also learned that you can do all sorts of stuff with technoligy.

·  That amutation is hard to adapt to.

·  How to put in music to give it feeling. I also learned how to put in cool sound effects.

·  I learned I have OCD and I learned about life.

·  How hard it might be to be adopted and not seeing your really family.

·  Lots of things I didn’t know about substance abuse.

·  I learned about how drugs affect you, and learned that drug can not only affect you but it can affect your family and friends too.

·  I learned how people feel and what amputees go through. I learned how to make an Imovie. I learned the whole story of how Howard Bach lost an arm.

·  How to be more creative and to use a computer more better than I used to.

·  That the imovies are a good to show people what things are.

·  Well it takes a lot to do it if you want to make a really awesome. You have to get the audio that’s right for your topic. Then pick an awesome title to go with it.

·  I leaned that it can be fun and educational at the same time!

·  I learned how important it is to pay attention to the details and work as fast and hard as you can.

·  I learned alot of the affects of drugs and that imovie has alot of stuff you can do with it.

·  How to create a digital story, info on P.O.W’s.

·  I learned how to create a digital story. I also learned what to do if you suspect someone is abused. And I learned how lucky I am with my family and what a lot of other kids go through.

·  That Non-Hodgin Lynphoma does exist.

·  I actually learned alot! I learned that you have to be patient when something don’t work right away! I learned the Kensburn affect which is really cool! I learned how to video tape and take certain clips of them!

·  I learned how to make a movie

·  I learn to work in team better. How to add music to the IMovie. Also how to add interviews to a Imovie and edit them.

·  I learned alot about the topic I chose. I also learned how to edit and clip audio, interviews and pictures. I learned how to add cool effects.

·  i learned to work together and how to use iMovie and how to work easier on a computer.

·  That when something that needs to be done right away, you shouldn’t procrastinate.

·  I learned alot like how to split music to add to the Imovie and where to put things. Also things like working with other people and putting up with them.

·  I learned that you should make the movie short and th the point. Also don’t spend to much time on one thing.

·  I learned that digital movie is really a group thing. Learning how to do the Kenburns effect. Also editing, putting them in order was fun.

·  I learned that you just don’t have to hav one clip after another. You can use the Ken burn affect.

·  I learned how you can take one thing and make it into something wonderful.

·  I learned how to use iMovie. This was the first time I ever used it. It’s just another way of telling a story with music and things.

·  I learned alot about the computer. Music is important because it sets the theme, and it should go along with your story. Pick songs that relate to your movie, not your fabe song on the radio.

·  How to make one and the hardships they faced.

·  That steroids also have good effects, and some of the bad effects.

·  I learned how bad steroid really are. How they can kill you and do worse stuff then get you kicked out of a sport.

·  I learned many things. I never new how to even start up Imovies. I learned how to record people’s voices over something. I learned practically everything Ms. Behmer taught us.

·  I didn’t even know about Ewing Sarcoma. I learned that 20 people who got it and only 12 survive.

·  I learned alot about how to make the movie more interesting. Also how to catch the attenetion of other students by making a cool beginning.

·  I learned how to use iMovie and how to interview someone. I also got to know my group members a little more.

·  How to make cool i-movies. Also about Dropouts.

·  I learned how important it is to look at the details. I learned alot about steroids. I learned the consqences and the legal steroids.

·  I learned to use all of the imovie effect and how to cut and just about everything else.

·  That it takes time, you have to be very patient. Team work is real good. It helps because then the job gets done real fast and easy.

·  How to interview someone.

·  I learned alot about cancer and how to make imovies.

·  I learned more about it then I did before like how to extrct the audio, create a still picture.

·  I learned how to make an iMovie, and do all the effects. I learned what people like Ms. Behmer can do in collage.

·  I learned about a new syndrome called Tourettes syndrome. I learned how to use a imove, edit and piece together it.

·  That Christopher Reeves was parolized. The different types of paralysis and places if effects your spinal cord.

·  That it takes alot of skills to make a movie and its not as easy as it looks. You really need to know what your doing, but in along run it was the funnest thing at 7th grade so far.

·  alot of things.

·  How to add/edit music/interview. I also learned how to do transitions.

·  I learned how to edit out things, get music in, the credits.

·  learned how to transfer stuff from the video camera to computer

·  How to make good I-movies. Al the tiny details, and everything make a movie great.

·  I learn 2 how to use Imovie.

·  How to make an Imovie.

·  How to create a Imovie. How do edit scenes.

·  You shouldn’t drop out of school. You have a really good chanse of doing bad things.

·  That it takes time and you need a lot of time to get things in place and how you want them

What personal connection did your story have for you?

·  Not much but I feel bad for the families.

·  Nothing really but everyone agreed on it

·  Not a lot, but during the whole time I kept thinking of poems (and I finally came up with 1) but a poem to me is like a mind of it’s own.

·  Nothing

·  I didn’t really have much of a connection I would of liked being in a war Imovie or something like that.

·  Nothing

·  I don’t have any. It’s John’s brother’s girlfriend.

·  With the war it is hard not to get into the pain and suffering when a loved one is sent off to war.

·  One of my Dads friends had his finger cut off by a garage door.

·  That alot of people go through alot of things, and you aren’t the only ones with problems.

·  I dont really have any connections, but afterwords I learned alot about it.

·  I didn’t have any personal connetion to me.

·  I didn’t have any personal connections.

·  It was fun working with Mike Tabor. ADHD was fun because of all the famous people who had it.

·  I have tourettes.

·  My grampa was adopted and I saw the form for him.

·  None, but I see others doing it.

·  That you should tell someone if you have any problems so you can get them taken care of. Your family can help.

·  It made me sad when I was learning about Howard Bach’s story.

·  It made me think how u shouldn’t make fun of someone with something wrong with them because it will always come back and stab u in the back.

·  That some people dont have as much as us and the love and caring that we get from our familys.

·  Because I’m not homeless so I can’t really tell you anything that’s happen to me.

·  I personally tried to put myself into the viewers shoes and made it interesting.

·  I learned a lot more about steroids than ever before it was really interesting and fun to do this.

·  None really but my dad just quit smoking and I hope this will influence other parents to quit.

·  Not much. That’s why it was good to learn about something different and new.

·  I knew Ashley was abused and she is a friend of mine and I’m just interested in that kind of stuff.

·  Mrs. Malony is my prinsiple.

·  Well this story is personal because my dad was in foster care!

·  My step brother has ADHD. My brother has ADD.

·  My grandma had cancer. She died at age 51, two ears before I was born. I didn’t know her at all. I knew her from story’s and pictures from mom and family.

·  My cousin has ADHD. I just wanted to find out alot more about what it is like.

·  Well my mom had to live in foster care and well I would always hear her talking about it I though it would be cool to tell her story

·  My dad served in Iraq for 3-4 months. So I decided that I should take pride.

·  I have a lot of connections connsidering my family members have had it. We put alot of emotion into it which means more.

·  I connected because my grandpa was in a few wars.

·  Well that alot of kids include me suffer with hemangiomas. Sad thing is I have it in my head. It sometimes really affects them or how they look.

·  I found out that the hemangiomas were really serious and I could of died.

·  It was about relatives with cancer and I have a lot of relatives with cancer.

·  My personal connection would be is because Maggi is my cousin and it reflected on my whole family because we were all very fortunate that she lived.

·  I had no clue how many children were abused. I’ve never been abused, but after doing this, I sorta feel for them. Reading all the stories put me in their shoes.

·  was about history

·  I wanted to know more about the effects, dering and after steroids are taken.

·  It was very surprising I thought cause of the differences it does to muscles and the things it does to you.

·  I picked this topic because it shows how people’s lives are different than others.

·  It was interesting to learn about this. I have no connection, but I will pray for anyone who has this and that they will get better.

·  I really care about children that have those probloms at home, and alot of our movie talked about how they need help and we should give them help.

·  I think that it’s a very interesting topic, and I also wanted to talk to someone who was a homeless person.

·  Not really anything, I was just couris.

·  I learned alot about steroids I never knew. This was fun and interesting I would like to do this again. I learned more about what steriods can do. It was fun.

·  It should me that you really have to stay away from drugs.

·  The story was relly sad, I knew the people who it happend to pretty good.

·  I have friends in Iraq.

·  I learned more about Ashley and it helped me understand what cancer is like

·  I remember the night it happened. The summer before I remember going with Forest down to bees once away. He would let us do a lot of fun things.

·  I learned more about Maggi, and what happend to her. I learned about the problem in general.

·  I have a friend Ty with tourettes syndrome.

·  How paralysis changes peoples lives and the way they live.

·  Well, my cousin JT (Jerry Yarolem Jr) died in a fire 4 yrs ago at a very yound age. And I know what its like to have those feelings, etc.

·  My uncle was the one we interviewed. We also interviewed me.

·  My cousin is at war right now, and I wanted to do something on it.

·  My cousin died in a fire when she was 8 years old, two years ago.

·  In capture the flag I get caught and get put in kinda a jail but not as bad as they got hurt.

·  Talking about history. Nothing else really

·  It is really sad

·  I get kind of hyper sometimes.

·  Not to dropout, it ruins your life without, it would be harder to find jobs.

·  Stay in school. Because it will get better.

·  That people go threw day, weeks and don’t know somethings wrong with them and when they find out there shocked.

How would you change this project in the future? What advice would you give other students making digital stories?

·  Don’t put all interview cut some out. Pick great songs that have a connection with your topic.