Friends Forever - An Amateur Hour(s) Journey in Voice Thread

The creative side of Voice Thread is invigorating but what is in my mind that I want to do and what I can figure out to do are two different things.  Creating the story line with pictures and deciding what to mix with music, comments and text titles was engaging in a way text only isn’t.  The pictures and story FF (Forever Friends) influenced each other.   Choosing pictures fit the theme and then what pictures were chosen drove the text.  Loading pictures was easy, navigating the tutorials and changing settings was also. Challenges with recording and uploading were met with stubborn tenacity.  After many detours, an amateur first Voice Thread has evolved.  The preplanning and having a clearer picture in the future will help.  This text changed several times until I landed on text messages for the titles.  Now I hope my friends will accept the invitation and join me in creating a better FF (Friends Forever) story.

In my teaching I want to engage students in more collaborative learning and the resources from our book and Dr. Beach for Digital Storytelling.  This chapter could be an entire course.

Quote of the week from the University of Houston The Education Uses of Digital Storytelling:
" British photographer, educator and digital storyteller, Daniel Meadows defines digital stories as "short, personal multimedia tales told from the heart." The beauty of this form of digital expression, he maintains is that these stories can be created by people everywhere, on any subject, and shared electronically all over the world." ."  Be sure to check out Daniel's work.  I love it when he asks of his documentary and digital work, "Predator or Collaborator? "  Take a look; it's 1:13 into the Bus.