Planning for Digital Storytelling

My Movie Maker project is going to be about the Water Cycle, and the 4 different stages which contribute to this natural part of our life that we often don't take notice to often enough. My project is going to be as though I am the actual student doing this topic in the 3rd grade. I will be using audio, video, and pictures to help me understand all of the process in which I hope that my students will be doing as well later in the classroom. To help me understand what I was actually going to be doing I read over the Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling, and created my own document of Notes of what it actually is (if you go ahead and click "notes", you are able to read this and get another overview of what Digital Storytelling is and its benefits).

The planning required before actually starting is very important because it is giving an actual starting part of where I should begin rather then just rushing into something and getting stuck often because I didn't plan up to the next point. During the planning part after you have selected the topic in which you want to do your project on it is important to gather all your images you want to use right away and save these so you don't have to go searching later, and its a great idea to help keep yourself organized. To help myself get prepared and organized I put together a Storyboard that helped me outline what exactly what I was planning on doing.