Getting the Ingredients

You will take your story outline and create a story board for this project. Your story board is like a “recipe”. Before starting to bake a cake, you need a recipe to follow. So let’s think of this project in the following way:

Storyboard is the recipe.
Images, text, and music are the ingredients.
Windows Movie Maker is the oven.
Digital story is the cake.

It is important to have a place to organize and save your “ingredients.” You will have the option of using a folder in your pdrive, your diigo account, or creating an album in Picasa. If you want to be able to access your images from home the last two options are the way for you to go. You will have both classes this week to find your images. Next week we will move on to music. Please be sure to use advanced search techniques and filters in Google. You also may want to use Flickr Creative Commons, Nettrekker, or Sweet Search to try and find your images.
Mrs. Knittle just shared another great site for finding images. It is called Compfight. We also had a discussion about why we need to filter our image searches. You are publishers and reusing images and music. Because we are publishers, we can only use images and music which have been licensed for this purpose. I know it is hard, but it is so important to keep your digital footprint and reputation "clean."
You will also need to create a Google Doc, or some other method of recording the citations for all of your images as you will need these for the credits of your digital story.