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** My digital story… **

The story I will be retelling is that of my experience travelling along the Darling River with my family and friends. The travelling was a great experience because I was able to live and travel around some of the most remote parts of the Australian countryside, witnessing the effects of the drought that was happening at the time and meeting people from a variety of different cultures and backgrounds. A highlight was speaking to owners of some of the largest cattle stations in Australia who allowed us to camp on their stations. This story will provide as an overview of the significant highlights of the trip. The trip was highly rewarding and I would love to revisit the places I travelled too but this time travel the tracks with a friend on a motorbike.

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Storyboard for Darling River Run Photo Story Script for Darling River Run Photo Story ** Commentary of the Digital Story Process **

Undertaking the digital story assignment was a HUGE process as the amount of work that is required to put together a digital story is well in excess of 75 hours especially when I am new to the digital story process and new to using movie making software.

The planning and organisation that is required to create a digital story is the backbone of the assignment, if the planning is done effectively prior to the editing of audio and photos it will make the process much more efficient and subsequently a better quality product will result. I found by using audacity to edit audio, it was easy and effective to create a clean piece of sound, which could be imported into Windows Movie Maker. However, when trying to import two pieces of sound into moviemaker I found that this did not work as moviemaker only allows for one piece of audio to be added at one time. Therefore, I needed to re-edit my original recording and combine both the background track and the narration into one track. Upon combining the narration audio track to the photos, I found that many hours of time and effort are needed to effectively link and synchronise the photos with the audio. In addition, it is important to have a stock of photos on hand because some photos, which may have seemed to work in the planning process may not in the final production, which I found happened with my digital story.

Furthermore, the need to have good quality technology to create a photo story is additionally a worthwhile requirement. The need to have a computer which has high processing power would have been good when creating my photo story as I found that my computer would often freeze and stop working when I did not want it too. This was annoying and posed as a significant challenge, which lead to frustration and often needing to start almost from the beginning of my photo story. However, I found myself saving my project every time I made a change and opted to using a different computer that had no troubles with creating the photo story.

However, amongst the challenges I faced I would not hesitate to use this form of assessment task in my future as a teacher. Creating a photo story is an effective way to allow students of all learning backgrounds and abilities to effectively create a piece of work, which involves learning of literacy and numeracy skills across the curriculum. Students with learning difficulties would see success in telling a story if they were given the opportunity to create a digital story. Furthermore, the ability to create audio files and then import them into Windows Movie Maker is successful for all schools as both of these types of software are free to download and it is inexpensive to purchase some headsets with microphones to record, as the quality is good for this level of production.

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