Photostory

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Creating this photostory about the place where I grew up was very enjoyable. I found that I had a ton of pictures that I wanted to share, but was unable to do so due to time limits. I felt that the photo's in the story really helped to provide details of the story I was trying to tell. Pictures really do say a thousand words. It makes the story so much easier to tell because I do not have to try and verbalize all of the details. Instead of painting a picture in your head. I was able to show you an actual picture of what I was trying to convey. I think this also helps with getting your point or message across and makes the story much easier to remember. I enjoyed creating the photostory and may introduce this concept to my students as an introduction at the beginning of the year. I did not however enjoy uploading this file. I had multiple problems in uploading this file to both the wiki site as well as Youtube. That definitely took away from the appeal of using these sites in my class more. I do see the value in it, but it took me over three hours just to get this to upload. In the end I didn't really do anything different. It was simply not loading correctly. After struggling with the internet all day with my students, and then coming home to similar problems I definitely value the importance of a solid infrastructure in schools. I am glad that I use multimedia in my classroom already and that it does not require internet access in order for it to work.

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