Digital Storytelling

   When I heard about digital storytelling, I was excited to try out this concept since I read and tell stories to students every week when I wear the Librarian hat of my job.   However, I soon learned that this is not as easy a feat as I first expected it to be.  My first challenge was to decide what story to tell.  I have many but are all the stories worthy of a digital telling?       My second challenge was pacing between my words and the pictures.  Telling a story to an audience in front of you is much easier to control and pace with pictures, but in a digital story I seemed to agonize over the seconds a picture was focused on and the next words I was going to say.   The third challenge was actually listening to my own voice.  Do I really sound like that?  Really? I cannot even say I like the sound of my voice although I have been told I have a good reading or story telling voice.  But really, that is what I sound like?!
    Once I got through those challenges, creating a digital story was not so bad after all.  Sort of fun, I think....
   So here is my first attempt at a digital story that I created this past summer. 
Click on this link: http://youtu.be/ak-AiLWlikY

Now to complete my next digital story....