Reflection of lesson 3

In session of the module, it main concentrated in digital story telling. By definition, digital storytelling reflects both a broad reference to the emergent new forms of digital narratives (web-based stories, interactive stories, hypertexts, and narrative computer games) as well as the specific approach of creating short digital films developed by the Center for Digital Storytelling. As an emerging area of creative work, the definition of digital storytelling is still the subject of much debate. Typically, digital stories are produced in intensive workshops. The product is a 2-5 minute film that combines a narrated piece of personal writing, photographic images and a musical soundtrack. The philosophy behind this type of digital storytelling is one of using technology to enable those without a technical background to produce works that tell a story using moving images and sound.
We also discuss about the power of new media. In the new information era, the media of sharing information not only by using TV and radio broadcasting, it also makes use of new media such as internet (you-tube or google video). We should remind that the new media may consist a lot of problems such as web bullying.
For digital story, we can make use of BBC story telling. http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/digitalstorytelling/
In the task of this week, we learnt how to use MS photo story 3 to make our own story to share with the others. It is a very user friendly application which is free of charge and it is very easy to use and we can produce a photo story easily and presented into different machine and media such as DVD, VCD and even to mobile phone.