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Assignment 5 for EDLD 5366 Ditigal Graphics for ET8013 Kimberly Talley
This class has been very enjoyable. I have benefited from learning all the different C.R.A.P. and associating with the different assignments. I had had some art classes in college before so the concept was not completely new. “Contrast is the attribute of looking different from something else.” (Yearwood) Contrast is an important element when one is designing anything. It makes the eyes look around the entire project. It can make important parts stand out. On the newspaper that I created, I used contrast in the color of the light background with the dark text. I also used it with color parts of it. Repetition of color or symbols also aids in the tying the whole project together. “No element in a design can exist by itself, out of visual relationship with other elements.” (Yearwood). With my newspaper I repeated the red and green lines in several places. I also used red and green through out the paper. Which leads us to the Alignment of the project. This one I had no idea about. It was a new concept for me. It was also the hardest one for me. I learned that it gives it balance. On my newspaper, I looked at the pictures and quotes to make sure they were not heavy on one side. “Proximity is the principle that things must be placed close to the items they belong with.” (Yearwood). This was also a new concept for me. It does make since though. You would not put a quote from an article next to a different one. I put little captions from the same article next to each other. I also put pictures with captions that relate to the article. I plan on showing the article to the principal. If all goes well, maybe I can start one for our school to try to keep them updated on new technologies that could be used in the classroom.

** Reference: ** Yearwood,. (n.d.). //Design principles//. Unpublished manuscript, Department of Technology, Lanar University, Beaumont, TX. Retrieved from https://lamar.epiclms.net/Learn/Player.aspx?enrollmentid=1580962

Reflection for Week 5 in Multimedia
The outcome that I envisioned for this class was to learn how to use different kinds of media. I was hoping to learn how to edit home movies and place them together in an orderly and interesting way. I did not learn how to edit home movies but I did learn about different kinds of media. I learned audacity is a free platform audio editor. It uses many formats such as MP3 and WAV. In Digital Storytelling Cookbook I learned about the 7 Steps of digital storytelling. I also learned how to use Photo Story and set the 7 steps into action. I learned the basics of purchasing a video. I have been educated on the free video editing software. One of my favorite to use is the photo story. Photo Story is where one turns plain photos and places them in a way that makes a digital story. Using Audacity as the voice over turns this digital story into an amazing Photo Story. I think that Photo Story is a great way to retell a story. I am planning on having the children of my class retell an experiment that we have done. I will have them work with a partner to place the pictures in. Then I will have them use Audacity to record their voice and embed it into the story. I believe that this will help the students become more aware of what they have accomplished. I will also use Audacity to record book reports and have the students create a Voki to share their book report. One of the outcomes I did not achieve was Movie Maker. I would have like to use Movie Maker. It sounds like a wonderful way to create movies. I could not download it on my old computer. I was able to down load it onto the school computer. I had been trying to create home videos using my little camera video recorder. I could not use Movie Maker because my movies were not in the proper format. I do not know how to change the format yet. As soon as I have time, I am going to work more with it, to learn what I need to do to change these videos to the correct format. Each assignment was a challenge. I loved the Photo Story! I will use this at school with my kids all the time. Audacity really gave me a challenge with week two lesson. I could not figure out how to upload it to my blog or wiki, so I did a Voki. I took on the challenge of voice over for our PSA so I could learn more about it. I was finally successful. Working with a team, was a good experience. We all had different talents, so it worked out wonderfully. One was a writer and had music; one had experience with editing and one was really good at putting it all down on the Proposal, script outline and shot list. I was in charge of creating the voice over. It all seemed to fall into place. I learned many different things that I will use in my class. I played with Voki and thought that would be a good way for the children to do a book report and use Audacity to record it. I learned about Photo Story and will also use that in my classroom. Working with a team, I realize that I could be a leader for my school. Even if I don’t know quite where to start I can ask the members of my team what they thought and they would help solve the problem. Our whole team worked very well together and each had great ideas. We listened to each other and worked with every idea. I believe our team was successful with our PSA. Audacity. (n.d.) Introduction. //1//(2). Retrieved April 21, 2009, from http://audacity.sourceforge.net/manual-1.2/intro.html
 * 1)  Owning your insights
 * 2)  Owning your emotions
 * 3)  Finding the moment
 * 4)  Seeing your story
 * 5)  Hearing your story
 * 6)  Assembling your story
 * 7)  Sharing your story.

Lambert, J. (2007, February). //Digital storytelling cookbook,// 1-30. //Story Center//. Retrieved April 4, 2009, from http://www.storycenter.org/cookbook.pdf

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