Inspiration+Map+LD

=Digital Storytelling=

My digital storytelling is about the adversity in athletics that I have gone through here at Central Michigan University. It was my freshman season as a Chippewa Volleyball player, and I got injured at the beginning of my season. I persevered through tough times in order to regain my physical strength and endurance to compete again. This digital storytelling project will take the viewer through the memories that I have of the past season, and I will explain the struggles that my injury put me through. Below is also an Inspiration Map that explains my step by step story of my volleyball career along with the struggles I have had to overcome as an athlete here at CMU.

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By completing the digital storytelling project, I have learned a new skill. The new skill is called the Ken Burns effect. This is an effect that can be made to each picture. This will change the picture and pan over the picture throughout the time the picture is being viewed. The effect makes the picture look like it is moving, although it really is not. It scans over the picture and it can also zoom and pan over them as well. I really liked learning this skill because it put much more emphasis on my pictures and made my digital storytelling project much more interesting to watch. I learned this effect because it was mentioned in class, but not described in detail. Since I was attracted to it in class, I decided to more deeply look into learning the entire meaning and what the Ken Burns effect actually does to a picture. This enabled me to attract the viewer’s eye to different parts of the picture because it seemed to be moving. This way each picture wasn’t a still shot that would be boring to stare at for longer periods of time when someone is speaking in the background. The Ken Burns effect was named after a man named Ken Burns, who invented the effect. This new skill is a skill that I will want to keep with me for my entire teaching career. As I give lectures and presentations, it will make students more focused on the picture and what I am saying, rather than getting side-tracked with something else.