blog 7 zhipeng zhu

The question “In a peer discussion group, you were asked to discuss your paper before you started writing it. One of the members of your group gave you an interesting idea. Do you need to cite the idea in your paper just as you would cite a quotation from a paper?” is the one of queation i interested. I have been confused about it for long time. When we disscuss with others, there always new idea come up in our mind, and the new one would lead to another new one. i believe this part of idea can be the most valuable one. When we use it, how can we do to avoid the suspicion of plagiarism. that question give me the answer. Those idea can be use in our paper, for safety wec can cite personal communication on it.

Another interesting question is:"In your 108 course, you are asked to write a research paper. You are new in the field, and much of what you know is from textbooks. This information is called common knowledge, and you don't know if you are supposed to cite it."we are fresh men, so we might face this problem in real world. in fact in china those knowledge be use in any place withour citing, because it's common knowledge, it's just in the book, teacher know where it's, so we don't matk it. but in here, that would be plagiarism, because it has copyright.if i don't do this question, i might be assumed plagiarizing.

blog 8 zhipeng zhu

when i made my DTS, there are lots of trouble i met. First one is dealing with my voice. i record my voice but when i edit it i found out that only one side have sound! It 's a big problem, and i still can not solve it.so i have to make the Dts story with only on side have sound that really uncomfortable. i plan to make my story funny but there is 3 different topic in my story and they are in different style. so i decide to use three different music with it. But that was simple like it look like. first i have to decide which part should use which music.i seclet three music: mission impossible, music of mario and a music i heard in a game which have no name.after that i have to use Audacity open it. and cut i part which should just that long as one story in my DTS. Then i should paste it in my voice mp3 file.after do this for three time, i almost finish the sound part.but i found out that the music it too noisy, so i reduce it. it's challenge but really interesting, because i solve those problem. it feel good, really good. No body dealing the sound part as good as me! that's a different thing with writting a paper. it's power then the paper.i know both of it transmit information. but as a story, use the really picture and your voice can let the listener feel much more close.

Intellectual property is also a big problem for me. i found some really good picture.but when i found it,i didn't record the website i found it.when i do the final step i discover it.i try to found it again but i fail. So i have to change the picture. through this DTS, i Know how to quote the resource, and in fact it's the first time i make something with copyright.

Blog#8-Maggie

In my digital story, I described my own experience of a trip of Shanghai World Expo. Because of this grand pageant and the company of my family, I have got so many details and emotions to express that I finished the story script without any problem. However, when getting forward, I met various challenges involved with the usage of software. The first problem I’ve got is the editing of the voice by using “Audacity”. Secondly, there were several specific difficulties while I was making the video. Even though I have had enough good quality pictures of this trip, the process of managing the order of the images and matching the voice and the images accurately are still complicated and time- consuming. The last difficulty is to add music into the video. I spent a whole night to find glorious and bright music to express the emotion and atmosphere of the travel. The most exciting and cheerful moment would be the first time of watching through the video after finishing it. At that moment, I felt successful and satisfied to get the achievement and touched by experiencing trip with my parents again. Compared with academic writing, digital story is a way to show personal experiences and feelings instead of formal specific academic work. The main purpose of digital story is to convey and deliver the emotions of the author to the audience. Meanwhile, academic writing aims at expressing academic and specific views in a formal and strict expression for scientific use. As a result of different purposes of them, they have different characteristics of writing type. In digital story, the author could use delicate descriptions, particular framework, tortuous and vivid plot, lively characters to make the audience feel as if they were personally on the scene. On the other hand, academic writing should have clear thesis, specific and formal words, rigorous logic and exactly proper citation and quotation.
After finishing the video, I started to write the credits which focuses on the citation of the resources used in my digital story. I downloaded several images and music from Internet to diversify and perfect my story. With the learning of this course, I have had a sense of intellectual property which contains various types such as words, ideas protected by regulations and laws. When using others’ own ideas, words and even music and images, we have to cite them. Otherwise, the work may be accused of plagiarism. Thus, at the end of my video, I made a reference list to cite the sources of the downloaded images and music I used in my digital story. It is not only a way to conform to the norms but also a way to show the respect of the original author.

Blog 8 by Aman Patel

When I heard we are going to make a DST I was excited to make a DST. But as the quarter passed we were told to make a script of our Digital Story. Firstly I was very confused which topic I need to choose. Considering it as a long time first I thought I would describe my hometown. But I did not have the enough pictures to describe it. So I chose I would choose my topic as my life and life experience, which I have experienced. After submitting the script of the digital story we were told to record our digital story in our voice. I had some problem with the recording because I usually speak English very fast so the length of the voice was very short so I re-recorded my voice. And then we were told to make a digital story by combining our pictures and our voice. In this class I learned new software named imovie. It was a good experience to learn new software. And at the end of the quarter we had a presentation of showing out DST to our class. And with the DST project going on we used to write blogs and also used to summarize the article given by the professor.

We need to be careful to use the material, which I used to make my DST. I downloaded picture, and I cited them to protect the intellectual property. Thus I would say we need to fulfill our responsibility of citing the sources. As the material is available from the Internet, we need to cite the source so the author gets proper credits for his work.

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I made my digital story by following steps: selecting what kind of topic to write down, writing the script to recite, collect the pictures and music which suit to my story, combining the pictures, music and the recited story to form the video clip, then put the reference list in the end of the story. I found that selecting the picture for DST is the most interesting step because I remembered some portion of my trip to Philippine, while reciting the story script is the most difficult part for me because of the hardness to pronounce English in the right way. I spend almost an hour to record it.

When the video clip is created to provide the idea or experience, it is very important to ponder the purpose of the products the creator has. For example, a student is about to use a music which was composed for commercial, or to earn money, s/he must purchase it to use in the story. If s/he used the music without paying money, it should be punished even if the reference list was shown. In this course, I got not only how to make a simple video clip and the website providing copy right free materials, but also how to use intellectual property in a right way.

Blog #8 Digital Storytelling and Academic Writing

    I can not believe this quarter is going to end so soon. And I can not believe that I can make a video about a period of my life by myself. This is a very reason I like this class, more challengeable but interesting. Firstly, at the beginning of the whole process of making my digital story telling, it was not easy to pick a topic. Because what I was going to do was not just a writting but wrtting and speaking combined with pictures. That means I need to choose a topic which has more than 20 pictures to support it and to make it unique. Those pictures are more meaningful if they originate from myself. I choosed "Bridges International" as my topic because of I am involved in this orgnization and I have time to take pictures about it. The entire story was wrote like a conclusion of my life experience in OSU with Bridges, so it was not very difficult. The most memorable time during making the digital story telling was the voice recording part. It was the first time for me do record my voice in such a professional condition—— whisper room. I was very excited about it and tried to do my best. For me, the most challenge part was the making video part. I've never used audacity and moive maker before, so it took me a lot of time to figure it out and combined my voice and background music and the pictures together. Compare with the normal writting, digital story telling has one more step of collecting and showing the pictures. They are similar in most of the place, such as using correct gramma, attracting reader and audience at the very beginning, connecting every paragraphs and making a reference list.
    One of the similarity of digital story telling and writting is being careful about the intellectual property usage.
Cite the resouces of all the pictures which does not belong to you and make a reference list to show the original resource. I downloaded several pictures from the internet, and I gave each picture a website to let the audience know the source I used, in order to protect the intellectual property of the picture. The process of making this video let me learn that anything which helps to support your idea is free to use only when you cite the source.

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In this quarter we’ve been working on the digital story telling for a really long time. My DST starts with searching the proper idea for the story. The first thought came to my mind is the place I spent my childhood in. so I didn’t take me so much time to make this decision. After this, the second step was to structure my story. This took me a bit long time because there are so many things I want to put in my story. So the process of screening the content which is most attractive to the audience might be a challenge for me. Then according to my draft I search the related photos online or find out from my own pictures. During this process credits of other people’s pictures caused me a little trouble too. The process of recording my story actually went quite well, there is not big problem came out when I editing my MP3 file. And the final move is to combine everything together to a movie file. In this whole process I don’t feel too many obstacles, but still it needs to be done with enough patient and care. Some parts of DST are similar to the academic writing because proper citation is needed for any reference material. But still it is different as it is your own story. So for me there is less restriction when doing the DST.

About the intellectual property in the DST i believe the things that we need to care are the resource of your picture and music. The link or addresses of those things are necessary as for the reference list in the end. I learned from this that we need to we have to show our respect to the original owner during at anytime.