Now that we have finished the personal narrative piece in ELA incorporating digital storytelling, please take a few minutes to answer the following questions.
- Do you think your writing improved as a result of this project? Give at least two reasons why or why not.
- How was this project different than if we simply wrote a personal narrative?
- Would you want to do something like this again?
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63 responses to “Reflecting on Our Digital Storytelling Project”
No, I dont think my writing has improved by doing this project because there wasn’t much to write and my parents always thought I was a good writer.
I do not think my writing imporved on this project because I am the same writer I am now. I am also the same thinker.
This project is simple because you do not have to edit or share. This is more personal.
I enjoyed this alot so I would enjow doing something similar again.
This project was different from a normal personal narritive because it had its own program that’s more technical then the Microsoft Word. It was also different because you needed pictures for it and to use your own voice.
1.I think that my writing skills stayed the same because we did not do revising or editing to make our writing skills better.
2.It is different from writing a personal narritive on a peice of paper because we could add pictures and sounds.
3.yes, I would like to something like that again because it’s tons of fun.
1. Yes I do think that my writing has improved because I have been trying my best and paying attention in class and pushing my self for writing.
2. It would be different because it is not on the computer and It would not be with ken burns affect and pictures of our times.
3. I would like to do something like this again because I like sharing my thoughts and feelings.
Yes, I would like to do something like this again, but not as a personal narritive. It was a fun and different way to tell/write a story.
I think my writing skills stayed the same because it was not really writing. It was more like reading. Also because it was not very revised. This project was different than if we had just written a personal narrative because there were pictures involved and instead of reading something you would be listening. I would like to do this again because it was fun using IMovie.
Q 1: I think that i improved in my writing because, ive been getting better grades in ela, so i think that this project might give me a good grade.
Q 2: I think that this project is different then a narritive because a nerritave is more of a formal peice of writing then the project im recently doing which is a journal entry that is more speaking wise.
Q 3: No. this is because I enjoy writing somthing that is about a interesting thing that is going to happen in either the past or the future. Not somthing about my weekend or the night before the entry because it is hard to think of how to explain.
I think my writing improved just a little because I had to speak it I could add a little more voice. Otherwise it did not improve my writing because it really didn’t focus in on any thing. I think it was different than just writing a personal narrative because it was more fun and we could use pictures to help a reader visualize. Yes, I would like to do something like this again because it is so much more fun than just writing.
1: Yes I do think my writing improved because of this project.This is because this made a physical overview of what you do write, and it enhanced it.
2: This project is different than just writing a personal narrative because this creates a visual of what your talking about, therefore, creates a better understanding.
3: Yes, I would want to do something like this again. This is because I think it is very cool that you can make you own movie, and that its your homework! I mean, come’on, FUN HOMEWORK!!This was a very fun project.
Ben Lieber
Yes: the writing improved as a result of my project because i felt more comfortable that not every body in the class was going to read it ,and because it was way easier than any other of the pieces of writing.
I don’t think my writing improved from this project because we didn’t critique. Also, we didn’t spend much time on writing the story.
This was different from just writing one because this was alot more more fun and interesting than writing which I think is really really really boring.
Yes, I would like to do this again sometime because a writing piece was actually fun for once.
Q1.) I think that I have become a better writer from this. The pictures, music, and titles gave me better ideas for my writing. My good grade also reminded me of the factual saying; “Their is always room for improvement”.
Q2.) I think that this is different than writing because the pictures, music, titles, and recorded voice really enhanced it.
Q3.)I would love to do something like this again. I just made a Christmas present for my grandma using Windows Movie Maker.
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#1yes i think my writing inproved because i felt more confident,and in spelling wise #2 this project is different beacuseits a journal #3 yes i would like to beacuse its a good experince
this project different than a personal narrative because this one is more personal.
1. I don’t thik my writing has improved. I think this because i don’t like to right and also i not very good at writing.
2. Its way more different because we used pictures and recorded our voices.
3. I wouldn’t wand to do something like this today because i’m not good at writing
Yes because it is really fun.
1.I don’t think that it improved my writing at all.I was really embarassed to use my pictures. I also don’t like hearing my voice recorded.
2.This is how it was different.I guess to some people it was alot more fun to do, but I think it was more fun to watch other people’s.
3.No. I would not want to do this again. Well, maybe if Gabbriella’s disk got stuck in our computer again so we didn’t have to present it.
NO, don’t think that my writeing impoved. I think that my writeing is no better that anyone eals in this class. I think I’m not that great of a writer. I think this because I was never a good writer so I thiink that no one wants to hear a bad story. This is why I think that my writeing has not improved.
I think that this project is different because we can write something that no one but Mrs.Narde will read so you can write something personal.
I think i would wont to do something like this agian. I think this because you can write what ever you wont and you can write your thoughts and fealings in your wriyeing.
1.) No I do not think my writning improved I think it stayed the same but it is not bad
2.)The project was different because I got to talk about something that I did and I got to show pictures of my cousin Ben, my friend Christina and I donating money to childrens hospital
3.) Yes I would like to do this project again. It was a very creative and fun project and I liked watching friends projects aswell
1. no I don’t think It help my writeing skilks I think it impoved the way I can speak out loud and I think the result of the project made me emberssed.
2.It is different than writeing it because you can use pictures than just writeong it.
3. No I don’t think I would do something like this agian because it made me feel emberssed.
1. Yes, I think my writing improved by doing this project. My writing improved by having to write it out first. Also it helped me choose better words by hearing my voice.
2. I think that it is different than writing on a piece of paper because it was more interesting and fun. Also it helped by visualizing with the pictures that other people brought in while you were watching their I Movie.
3. I would love to do something like this again. Plus you don’t get any homework because you can only do it in school!
1.)I think that this project has improved my writing because this shows me a different veiw of writing. Also, I got to say use different words instead of saying always he/she said you can say he/she replied,yelled ect… Another thing is that Igot to learn how to use voice in my writing and that helped me out!
2.) It is different than a personal narrative because you had to use in your personal narrative proper words and not apriveations but in the new project it was o.k. to do that.
3.)I would like something like this again because it was very fun to do. Also,I liked writing informal.
1. I think it did help me improve my writing because it is now esier to understand how to write more YES!
2. This is a bit harrder to write this one because you have to write more YES!
3. No I dont want to do this becuse I need to write an thing that is that long YES!
1.no becuse we dident really write a lot it was mostly on the computar
2. its diffrent from a personal naritive becuse its on the cuputar and its like a slide show with your voice.
3.yes it was a really fun project
1. I think my has improved because i want to write more
2.its alot different then writing because you use pictures
3. I want to do this again but not with persanol naritive
1. No because I did’nt write anything while doing my Imovie.
2. It was different than writing because it was your own vocie and you get to add pictures and music.
3. yes it was fun and I would like to do it again.
1.I think my writing skills stayed the same because we did not revise at all.
2.This project was different from writing a personal narrative because we used technology.
3.I would like to do this again because it was fun.
1.yes, because I feel more confident with my writing and I’m more fluent.
2.Its different because its a movie and you can see whats going on on the screen in stead of just in your head.
3.yes because it was more fun than just writing a personal narrative and it gave me a bigger challlenge than just writing
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1. I think my writing improved because we were writing about something that really happined and not something that wwe had to make up.
2.This project was diffrent because we used technolgy and not just a borring old pencil and paper. We got to put pictures.
3.yes i would want to do this again because it was more fun than just wrirtng.!!!!!!!!!!
1.i think that my writing sorta inproved by doing this project because i got more discriptive in my witing.
2.i think that even if we did do a personal narrative it would’en thave been that fun for us.
3.yes. i would love to do this again it was alot of fun.
I dont really think that my writing improved,
i am the sam writer i was, befor this
project.
It was different then just writing it down on
a pice of paper. Well you did that frist but then
you got to talk, and get pictures for the project.
Yeah, i guess i would like to do something like
this agin.
1.Yes because I know more adjective words that can give a better description in my writing.
2. The project wasn’t that personal because everyone in our class got to see a little bit more about us and our lives.
3. I would deffantly want to do something just like this!! It was soo muchh funn!!!
1) I think my writing has improved a lot when doing this project. We have to do a lot of writnig in class but i still think that it has helped.
2) I think it was a lot different then a writen out narritive. You have more affects and people are more intrested.
3) i would love to do something like that again
1.)Yes.Because 1, When you recorded it and then you listen to it you would find some mistakes and you change it.2,you have to make sure everything is correct to show your parents.
2.)It is different because if you just write a personal narritive you won’t be able to do the cool things we did with our imovies.
3.)nO because it took really long and when I presented it I felt really embaressed.
1. i did think that this will improve my writing because it was a helpful way to make a story and to tell things. you cannot tell things that you are reading in a story, but with a personal narritive, you can do all of the things like: making sound affects, doing or saying some funny things and you can act out the things that you want to do.
2. this project would be different from a personal narritive because it can do dhings that a stroy cannot do. it can tell what a person is feeling better that a story can. it can also make things that are different in alot of ways.
3. i think that i would do something like this again because it was VERY fun, and i think that everybody should have a chance to do this as a way of telling a story better than no one else can tell it.
1.yes i do think my writing skills have improved.I think i am more organized and it shows me a different point of writing and it makes me feel like i can express my self and i enjoy it very much!!!
2.its alott different because its more fun.its really kool watching other peoples video.and you can show somthing that means alott to u and u can express your self more than you can on a sheet of paper.
3.I would love to do this again!its so fun messing up and making fun of your self.Its funny when your showing yours and you feel so embaressed.its really creative and interesting because you can acutally show your self haveing fun doing something you love to do!!!!!!
1) i do think that my writing improoved by that project because i learned that i needed to write it out first.it also helped me by hearing my voice and what i needed to improove.
2)it would of been different because you can use pictures and music,and you also can make your voice sound.
3)i would love to do something like this again because it would be realy fun and exciting to do it again and it will be better than the last one.
1.No, because I wright just as normally as i did before the project and i don’t feel any different about wrighting.
2.It was different because it was more fun then a normal project.
3.Yes i would because it was something at school that was out of the ordinary.
1. no. I do not think that my writing has improved because we did not do alot of writting. Most of it was recording are story instead of writing
2. it was different than writing it because we recorded it and we got to put pictures instead of writing the story.
3. No !!! I would not want to do this agian because my family does not take enough pictures and we never take vactions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
imovies are soo funn to make. Even tho it takes time to make I would do ne thing to do another one during the whole school year!! I loved it!
Question Uno: No, I don’t think my writing has improved from this because A.) I only wrote what I was going to say, so the spelling, grammer ectera didn’t really count and B.) Talking isn’t writing, and writing isn’t talking, it’s a whole different world!
Question Dos: It was different because instead of typing, spell check, track changes and all that ‘good’ stuff, we spoke what we wanted to say, you could say it would have emotion to it, but on paper things change.
Question Tres: Yah, I’d like to do something like this again…it was pretty fun.
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1.Yes my writing has improved and i am better at it.
2.The project is differnt from a personal narrative because they can hear my voice and i dont have to write.
3. Yes because it was a fun project and i would like to do it again.
1. I think my writing has improved a little. I think so because I can hear what I wrote and see what I need to improve on and I can choose better words by hearing my voice.
2. It is different because you can record your voice and put in pictures to go with what you say so it is more interesting.
3. Yes I would like to this again! I had alot fun working on it.
1. No, I don’t think it improved my writing because I write a story like this a lot.
2. It’s different because your voice shows expression about how you feel. Pictures also go with it so the person who is viewing it knows how it was.
3. I had a lot of fun working on it. If I can find pictures, I would love to do it again.
1. I think my writing has not improved because now that i hear my voice my writing has not improved that much.
2.This project is different because it is fun and its definitley not like weiting on a peice of paper.i like to do different things when i write storys or tell a story.
3.yes, i would really like to do something like this again….its a good way to write or tell a story.
1.I think that my writing has improved in many ways like, my writing is more organized and clear.
2.It was different because i got to hear my voice during it.
3.i would want to do something like this again because mine got messed up and i didnt get to see it.
1.Yes it let me write more freely and alowed me to say what hapend with every dietail.
2.You can add sounds and life to it.
3.Yes it was fun and I look forward to doing somthing like it more often.
1. I think that I didn’t really improve my writing because I don’t see how you can improve writing by making an iMovie. Making an iMovie is just writing the way I alyas write. I think I write this same. There wasn’t even alot of writing to do.
2. The project was different because it was alot funner than just writing a essay about somthing you did.
3.Yeah I would! It was intencley fun! =]
1.I don’t think my writing has improved because there was not much writing to do. Also because I am the same writer.
2.This project was differnt than a personal naritve because you can add pictures
3.yes I would!:) It was much more fun!