Assignment 1 - Digital Storytelling Reflection

I had an idea for my story to connect with the technology that my father experienced in his life as an educator with mine.  At first my script was 693 words that I felt really told his story.  Not only was it hard to cut it down it felt like I was taking part of his meaningful story away.  With only 150 words, I felt like the story was very flat.  So I had to work with more of the images to tell his story and convey the meaning of his connection to what I am now doing.  I wanted the pictures to really flow, have music and the audio that was mentioned in the rubric.  It was a bit confusing, as the assignment seemed to say that you could choose to have audio or music.  I am going with what the rubric states as that part is worth 15 points.  So I thought I would use iMovie with a separate audio file to have the narration.  Once I got into using iMovie the audio files were not working well with the music audio so I decided to look for another tool.   I ended up using a free online tool, spark.adobe.com  This tool allowed me to use the images, have music, and record audio.  I was able to publish it in a format to post to youtube.  I posted the link to my Google site, posted the video to youtube and put the link in the course assignment document.