Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story

While completing my Digital Storytelling assignment, I explored several different applications. Among these were Xtranormal, Pixton, and Slideroll.

Of all of these, I found that Xtranormal was the coolest! It was really cool to explore the different options offered between different scenes, actors, voices, sound effects, and camera angles. I felt that I had a lot of room to be very creative! Plus, it was really cool to see my videos that I had created. It was fairly easy to navigate and to understand. The only problem that I ran into was sharing the video on my blog or any other website. It seems as if I needed to pay to "Publish" the video.

Pixton was really different from the rest of the presentation applications. I was able to explore the creation of my own comic book. It had many different options that was available, and even more if you were willing to upgrade. I did find that due to the copious amounts of options, it was very time-consuming and hard to navigate. I finished one frame in the time of two hours!

Lastly, I had settled with Slideroll to present my Digital Storytelling lab. I thought that this was a very cool way to create a presentation. The feature that I enjoyed most was the effects and transitions. Also being able to overlay the captions was a cool feature. I did find it hard to create a timeline with a picture order that I thought fit best.