E-Books Part 2

In our next project we basically had to create our own e-book. The tools we used were audacity and power point. This project was fun to do but time consuming and a little challenging at times. We had to take the second story board that we created and make a power point presentation out of it. We had to have text, pictures, and audio all incorporated.
The challenges I had were my memory disk was full and I was not aware of that and was recording my sound files and half of them did not get recorded and I had to record them all over again. I do not have power point on my computer so I had to go somewhere that did. Once I found power point putting together the presentation was not very difficult.
I enlisted my brother to help me with the pictures and one of the voices in my project. We were not allowed to use clip art or pictures from the Internet so I had to be creative in what I used. I am a terrible artist even when it comes to stick figures so I wanted to do something else that was more creative. I really did not have access to take pictures because my story focused around a second grade classroom setting and I did not have access to take photo's of a class room. In the end I found a Hello Kitty Coloring book that had what I needed along with some scrape book stickers and I put together my pictures and used a digital camera to take the pictures and download them to the computer. There was probably a more easier way to get the pictures on the computer but that is what I am familiar with.
My story was of a little girl who would not pay attention or listen in class and she had to learn why it was important to listen. After I completed the final project it was OK but even I thought it was a little boring I wish I would have done something a little more fun. When I observe a child for the other e-book project I will see what she thinks about this story.
This would be a great project however for a teacher to do for their classroom. I think a teacher that is in elementary school should make there own and present it to the class along with a quiz in the back. Our class has not gotten to the quiz part yet but we will have to incorporate a quiz eventually. This will also help the students to follow along visual and audible and let them see that any one can use technology. For those in middle or high school I think this would be a great group project for the students to create. It would help them to organize and work together to make something fun.