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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.

Blog 8

In English 106 when Eric said that all students need to create their own digital stories by video, I was so exciting in the fact that this will be my first time. I got no problem with my writing, but the funny thing in this project that I have never recorded my voice on my whole life. I was thinking what I'm going to present to my classmates, so they can get a picture about my life. Then I decided to talk about my trip to the desert which starts every winter break. On the other hand, there were two significant challenging with my digital story. First of all, the only step that was difficult for me is recoding the sound. In addition to that, the other thing is the Windows Movie Maker which I know nothing about it, but now I'm very good with that. Moreover, I didn't find pictures belong to my story and then I took many pictures from the internet. Some students are confused between writing essay and tell story. I definitely feel the same thing, but I would say that writing essay relates to the digital story only when there is a good way to put them on one piece. From the digital story, you are using more than one sense I mean the audiences can use their eyes and ears because the music and pictures. However, academic writing has only one sense which is the eye by the words.

The most important step for every essay or story is citing the sources. Personally, I got many pictures from Google and I put the references at the end of my story. Before this class if I picked any picture or music I don't cite the Web site because of the different cultures around the world. I consider that a good thing since others worked and they don't need others to take their work without giving them credits

Blog #8

In this beginning of the quarter, we will plane to make a digital storytelling and present it at the end of the class. At first, I worried about a story, because I do not have any interesting story to tell our class. As many people said, I live in the common world with normal daily life without interesting, so choosing topic is the most difficult thing during DST. Also, another difficulty was that I do not have enough images included in the story after decided the topic which was the journey in Sydney. I had took a lot of picture in Sydney, but I do not came with images in the U.S. However, my brother upload the image on the internet, so this problem was clearly solved by my brother's efforts. During this project, the most interesting thing was also images. I spent a lot of time to search images on the internet, especially Google web site, and there were many funny images. I just want to find "good bye" but one of images show man who hangover in the sofa, so finding images on the internet was very interest. Through the DST, I can find some kind of similarity between writing and making video. Both writing and DST have a Intellectual properties, so I should quote some images or music which found on the internet after finished video by using credit. However, I do not consider plagiarism in the DST, because it was my own word and expressions.

For this project, I use the image which founded on the internet. At first, I do not think about credit to cite the image, because images on the internet are common and used by many people. However, after I leaned plagiarism, I understand that illegally using images also kind of plagiarism. This is because, the Image have intellectual property likewise writing, so when I use images which is not mine, I should cite the images.

Blog 8--DongJin Li

First of all, I wanted to use my personal experience to show China’s improvements. It would be a epic story. However, I found that it was so difficult to handle and I didn’t have enough time. Finally, I tried to choose a topic about travel. It would be more familiar for me and easy to handle. I have enough photos to show what had happened in those amazing places and I have a lot of good stories to tell. I wanted to make sure that no body saw those pictures or views before. XinJiang province in China is like Alaska State in United States. I'm pretty confidence that even most of my Chinese classmates didn't know that place very well. So, The Trip Of XinJiang Province, that's my choice. Technology issue always was the most challenging part for me when I make the DST. I always got some small troubles about that. And recording my voice is the most interesting part. It was a lot of fun. After recording my DST, I even could sing some songs in the whisper room.

Most of those photos are mine. Just 3 of pictures have been downloaded from the internet. However, I still need to be careful to cite the resources in the last page, even no body will charge me. I want to follow the western world’s rule. It’s good for my future study. It’s a good experience.

Blog #8

When I first heard we were going to make a digital story as our biggest assignment in this quarter, I was nervous and worried, because I am not good at using any programs from computer. It took me a while to figure out how to use Audacity and Movie Maker even though Dr. Bloch had showed us the basic skills for these programs. I kept rerecording my voice for my digital story, because I wanted to make it look good, I wanted my audiences to enjoy the digital story. However, it was hard to schedule the whisper room at SEl, because we had two classes need to use the whisper room, and I was not sure about my audiences can understand my digital story when they watch it. I had a lot idea on my first draft of the digital story. But I could not make a main point of view in my digital story because of tons of thing that I wanted to put into my digital story. I think that is different from writing an academic essay. Finding images and music was not hard for me and the digital story I made. Somehow I enjoyed looking for pictures from my computer for the digital story.

During the process of making my digital story, I learned how to use MLA style to cite my intellectual property correctly. I use MLA style to cite my sources since high school, but I always confuse about which one should go first, and I forget to put them in alphabet order all the time. I downloaded music and few pictures from the internet and know how to make a good reference on my work after this assignment. It was a helpful assignment for me to learn having originality but also follow copyrights and use the right technology to give credit.

blog#8by Kaier Feng

Friday is the final presentation of digital story, which we prepare for the whole quarter. I think the procedure was pretty complex, including blogging, searching pictures and music, polishing our digital story, recording our story and making DST video. Things seemed confusing when I set about the work of digital story. First, I could not determine the topic which I should choose for digital story. Considering it for a long time, I thought I could write something about my hometown, the place which I was quite familiar with and began to write an outline of the story. Then I started writing the story with my explicit memory of my hometown, which was not a hard work. However, it came to be tough when I started to work on my digital story recording. I could not read it fluently and had to rerecord it by making an new appointment, which made me tired. The most interesting part was making a video. Before I mad the DST, I had found many nice pictures and a piece of music which I think was fit for my story. From my point of view, I think there are a lot of similarity between writing an academic essay and a digital story. For instance, we should credit others’ idea and the source. Substantially speaking, citing the sentence which is adapted from another article and using the pictures downloaded from internet are the same things in the process of protecting intellectual property and being exempting from punishment of violating of academic conduct. And the difference is that in digital story, we specifically tolk about our life and experience, but in academic essay, we should be objective and neutral. 

We should essentially credit the pictures and the music in the process of making DST. Every thing from others should be cited in order to protect intellectual property, even though it comes from the communal resources such as internet. We should fulfill our responsibility by give the credit to others who did the original job.

Blog #8(The last one?) Junghyun Hong

When I heard that I need to make my DST in this quarter, I was glad because I already had a good subject to write and show to others. It was the mission trip to Costa-Rica during last summer break. I don’t need to try to remember old memories and to find old pictures. My story was about just 2month ago and I had brought my digital camera to mission-trip, so, I had all of pictures. Also, I already experienced to make a movie about the trip somewhat similar DST for presentation to church people (It wasn’t same. My DST isn’t plagiarized one.) So, I chose favorite pictures and wrote the story with my fresh memory. However, when I tried to write the script, It was hard to organize whole story to 5 minutes long. I had to choose which stories are put in and out. When I wrote it first, it was 7 minutes long story, so, I had to draw out minor stories. However, after drawing out, my story became a short but clear. I felt that DST script is little different with an academic essay. When I wrote it, I don’t need to worry plagiarism because DST is about my experience. Overall, making DST was interesting and I think it is a good chance to show my experience.

 I felt that I have to be careful when I use other’s intellectual property like pictures and songs. Even though DST is based on my story, I needed other’s sources to make my DST. Also, I needed to make reference list; Song’s name and the source of pictures. These things were wired because most of all universities in Korea don’t think using other’s sources for non-profit work. From this DST assignment, I realize that every what I make and send should include references and I have to concern other’s intellectual properties.