Friday, March 13, 2009

Explanation of Spanish Grammar Rule- Digital Story

I really had a lot of fun making this digital story, which explains how one category of irregular verbs works in the preterit tense of Spanish. My fear, however, is that without having a lesson based on how these irregular verbs work, and a general understanding of Spanish, you will not be able to understand it very well. I do think that it could be used as an anticipatory set for the lesson on how this class of irregular verbs works.

While I enjoyed the entire process of making the story map, writing the script, and creating the illustrations, I was frustrated by the technology and I am still not completely satisfied with my final product. When I uploaded the narration Windows Movie Maker did not want to accept the file format and it took me a number of hours and numerous phone calls to my technological savvy friends to get it figured out. Then I noticed that the recording device I used picked up all sorts of background noise. I have since lost my voice due to illness and cannot fix it at this point. I see why the final 20% of production takes 80% of the preparation time.

Please check out my video here, my story map (which ended up getting a bit twisted) and script here, and my rubric here.

I hope you enjoy it.