Blog 7 -B- Storyboard 2

The storyboard 2 project was a way different than the first storyboard we created. We used PowerPoint instead of word and we made a story with a dialogue between two or three people. I recorded my voice with the text in the story and i added pictures that went along with my story. There were a lot of fine detail we had to follow and a lot of strict guidelines for each part of the story. The pictures we used in our story had to be our own and just like the other project we had to crop the picture and clear the image up. The audio had to be distinguishable between the different characters in the story. At the end of the story the professor wanted us to have a page for our personal profile as well as a page for giving credit to the people helped, the author of the text and audio, and the owner of the pictures. These added a great sense of ownership to the story and i can realize the importance of having this in our books. The professor wanted a specific outcomes for our stories and that was for us to be able to work from these in future projects as well as our future classrooms.

I learned, well remembered, from this activity all the fun power point can be and all the influential as a future tool when i am a teacher. With the addition of using audio files and pictures i could really enhance a study session for an upcoming quiz. This project has inspired me to think outside the box of traditional teaching methods and enhance my classroom teaching style with the use of different projects using PowerPoint. I know that it takes a while to complete a lesson using PowerPoint, but the outcome is definitely worth the trouble. Hey i could just make the PowerPoint over the weekend or during the summer, and just like other things when using computers, when you make it once you have if forever, unless unseen circumstances.

There were many challenges to this project, like many projects when using PowerPoint, and most of them dealt with time consumption. Cropping the pictures, recording the audio, writing the story, the settings of each page, the minor details that make the project great all took a considerable amount of time and i had to manage it effectively in order to get the project done. We were given this assignment over spring break so that helped with the time issue, but i had to assign a certain part of the project in separate smaller sections. This made my project much easier because i was working on it in a set format where each fell into each other as the next piece of the puzzle. I started with the text, then cropped and added the pictures, recorded my voice for each character, finally i worked on the transitions and setting of each slide. It took me a considerable amount of time to complete this project, but i fear i did not meet the professor requirements for this project.

With this project i have grown as a leaner and especially grown in my knowledge and preparation for my future classroom. I have remembered all the fun PowerPoint can be and how enhancing it is to a lesson. I have always enjoyed viewing PowerPoint lessons in my previous classes, so i want to use this tool to a greater extent than what i have been exposed to and show my students how much fun and interesting history can be while using PowerPoint.