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[|Reflections on Week 1 Multimedia and Video Tech Assignment]
Multimedia is fun! Creating even a short video is quite time-consuming, however, if the creator is as picky about details as I am. I didn't understand the interview part of the assignment until I read the article Digital Storytelling Cookbook (January 2010). Lambert explains the process of script writing and begins with the interview: "Have someone interview you, then transcribe the words and see what they tell you about the story you are trying to conceive." When I read that, the assignment made sense.

Planning a video using a storyboard is an important step, too, quite similar to creating an outline before writing a paper. It gives direction to the video and allows the creator to organize the pictures or scenes to give the video the best continuity.

Several authors of the articles we read this week emphasized that multimedia must be done well in order to be useful, and I agree. To us who are digital immigrants, multimedia is still a novelty and very cool. To our digital native students, multimedia is how things are--it is their world and it is commonplace. In a commonplace world, a multimedia presentation has to be excellent in order to be useful.

The process of creating a multimedia presentation requires higher order thinking skills, organizing and synthesizing skills, and a good dose of creativity. The value of multimedia in the classroom may not be so much in watching a good presentation as it is in creating one.