Technology Blog - Thursday

I think my most profound encounter with technology today came in class when we began to create digital stories. We use so much technology in our daily lives that anytime I am exposed to something new, I am always intrigued. The program we used to create digital stories was Photo Story 3. I would say this technology definitely helped me. The format of the program was pretty straight forward and easy to use. It almost was like a tutorial in its set up. Pictures, titles, narration, and music are all easy to add. The only frustrating thing was the size of the screen. I was unable to work on my project in any sort of full-screen mode. Instead I had to try and add titles to my work while looking at this tiny little picture. You would think the people at Microsoft could come up with an easy solution to this, or maybe there is and I just couldn’t figure it out. To further add to my encounter with technology, the fact that I was working on a computer meant I could multi-task (or multi-process according to one of the readings). So while I was working on this project I was looking at stuff online and listening to music. We had talked a little about how kids today are really good multi-taskers and have short attention spans. I guess I fit that category. I’m one of the younger people in the class and still tend to think of myself as a kid. I was able to use many other different forms of technology and still manage to get a good start on my digital story project.