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EDLD 5363- Week 1

Well, this class has started off with a bang, and I love it. I did not know I would like playing with storyboards and narration, but I do. I have learned so much just this week and am really looking forward to more. Today I helped a girl at work with her school. I showed her how to put illustrations into her papers with GoogleDoc. She thought I was a genius!
I have enjoyed telling my story about my house. The hardest part was sqeezing it down to 2 minutes. I have hundreds of pictures and stories about that house. Each time I thought of something additional I would like to add, I had to cut somewhere. It is an eye opener what a big job all editors have. I thought the difficult part would be getting the raw footage, but in reality, that is the easy part.
I have enjoyed this project so much, I believe I will go back and redo my video after this class to include more pictures and narration. I have always wanted to document my project, but have never done anything with it.   Know I know how to incorporate the pictures into a slideshow with narration; I plan to improve what I started. I hope next week is as much fun as this week!

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