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In today’s English class, our Teacher Benson let us show everyone’s Digital story and I think everyone does a good job. Though doing this digital storytelling, I learn a lot of things like how to use audacity and movie maker, and copyright. At first, we make an out line about our DST and then write a whole DST essay. Afterward, we did the most interesting and important part of the process, go to the digital studio and do the recording. I practice lots of times and when I go into the studio, I still feel nervous. But after I try it for a few times, my voice becomes better. When I finish my recording and go out of the studio, I feel a little giddy because I reading a lot and lacking of the oxygen. After that, I edit it and then collect some of the pictures from my hard dish and search other pictures and the music online, at the same, note down the website of the pictures and background music. In the end, I put the pictures, recording, and music together in the movie maker and export it with the WMV format. I think the most difficult and challenge part is editing the recording and using the movie maker. It is hard to use the movie maker and audacity because if you make a little mistake, you have to do a lot of work to correct it. But after I practiced it, I make it more perfect.

Though doing DST, I found that intellectual property is a very important thing in US. I need to note down the website of every picture and music I download online and paste it to my DST. Also, I first use the “creative commons” in my works. If I am not doing this, I will infringe the intellectual property, so it is very important.