Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Blog #5 Using pictures in your digital story


The video, “Choosing images for you digital story”, points out how to use the image in digital story well. The video claims that images should interact and explain my digital story well. Moreover, the video describes three different usages of images to put in the digital story. First, image can be associated with the contents of digital story directly. Second, images can contain the meanings of text in symbolic way. Third, different images can be used to explain different situation. Also, the video shows the source to find the images for the digital story. The video examines that your own picture and picture downloaded from web sites such as ‘google’ is fine to use. The video mentions that downloading picture for educational purpose is not related to the legal issue, as purpose of using picture is not with making money. However, the video assert that citing sources of the images at the end of the digital story is crucial.

 The image illustrates the girl covering her face with her hands. The girl doesn’t want to show her face to others. The image shows that she feels shy in symbolic way. It is not associated with the girl. With her motion, covering her face with her hands, people can figure out the girl in the image feels shy. I will explain my personal character with the image. I think the image can emphasize my shy personal character. So, I want to put the image into my digital story. This picture is downloaded from the web site, ‘google’. I will put the image in my digital story when I talk about my shy personal character.

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