The digital story project was a lot of fun. We chose a topic relevant to our subject matter and using pictures, either our own or those we got off the internet (free of copyright), we created a digital story with iMovie. The iMovie software was really simple to use, especially if you followed the directions from our packet. Once all the pictures were put into the sequence we waited all that was left was adding captions, a title, credits and a soundtrack. Again all of this was pretty easy if you followed the directions and there were plenty of websites provided to get royalty free music.
The topic I chose was our 32nd President, Franklin D. Roosevelt. I'm a big FDR fan and his presidency covers a time really interesting to me so I was excited to do this project. I think that it all turned out well and that I have a solid short movie (about two and a half minutes long) talking about FDR's 12 years in office from the Great Depression through Pearl Harbor and World War II.
I liked this project a lot. It wasn't too hard to do, it was fun, and has plenty of uses in the classroom. Making several of these videos for class presentations or to have as an introduction to topics would not be difficult to accomplish and I think would be fun for the students. Below is the video I made.
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