"B" posting: Storyboard activity

When I think about some of the activities we have done in this class the one that sticks out the most thus far is the storyboard activity. This activity began at the very beginning of the semester when we had to write five significant stories about how education has influenced our lives. One of my stories was about my mentor, who just also happened to be my grandfather, and how his recent death has impacted me and my educational goals. This activity continued a month or so later when Dr. Baylen assigned the storyboard project. For the project was had to have nine picture or twelve if you wanted extra credit, nine or twelve voice recordings done in Audacity of your story, and a word document where all your material would come together. When the activity was complete the "player" would click on the different pictures I had posted in the word document and listen to my voice recording. After listening to all of the recordings the "player" would then try and piece my story back together.

I learned a great deal of information from this activity. Before doing this activity I had never even heard of what Audacity was and for the most part had never done voice recordings on the computer. I was also unaware that you were able to add hyperlinks of the voice recording to a word document. The main challenge I found with this project was placing all the information in the correct location. I know several times I hyperlinked the wrong voice recording with a picture. I overcame this challenge by doing it over and over again until it came out how it was supposed to be. I learned from this project that although it sounded difficult to master that if I put my mind to it that I could accomplish my goal of finishing and I did.