Digital Storytelling

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So I started looking around on Flickr for images that I like.  Here are some I found: Picture 1 I was looking around and found this picture. I love the color of the fly and the angle of the sunlight streaming in. I also like the fact that it has fireflies in it. Picture 2 […]

So I’ve really been thinking about what I could do my story on. I tried switching tacts and started thinking about some things I liked. One of the first things that came to mind was the video game Assassin’s Creed 2. I got the game over winter break and became a little obsessed with it. xD So […]

I honestly have no idea what my story could be about. I’ve been thinking about it all weekend, but so far nothing has come to mind. It’s really irking me that I can’t think of anything at all. I know I want to do some sort of fiction story, but that’s as much as I’ve […]

So I had a really fun time doing this assignment. I chose to do Sketchcast, Pixton, and Aniboom. I’m horrible at drawing, so they didn’t come out so well, but I had fun doing it. I couldn’t fit all of the story in one comic for the Pixton one because I made my panels too […]

Because we read Tim O’ Reilly’s article on Web 2.0 first, it made understanding Bryan Alexander’s and Alan Levine’s essay on Web 2.0 Storytelling a little easier. Having his article in mind while reading Web 2.0 Storytelling helped make the concepts in the article make more sense. The first thing that jumped out at me […]

Before I read Tim O’ Reilly’s article on Web 2.0 I had never heard of Web 2.0 before. I found the article to be quite interesting, though. From what I gathered from the article, the aplications from Web 2.0 seem much more user friendly than the ones from Web 1.0. For example, one of the things O’ […]

What exactly is digital storytelling? Most people seem to have a different idea as to what it is. I define it (loosely) as using technology and the web to tell a story. This is very broad and ecompasses a lot of things on the web, but the one thing that comes to mind when I […]