The Journey of A Digital Story :)

 Hi everyone:) This time, our assignment was to create a digital story. We were given three options and these options were creating a PSA, a how to project or a fictional story. My group, which consists of my dear friends Yaren and Buğra, chose to do the how to projects because we thought it would be fun to do it together and easier to manage. 

First we decided on which type of how to video we were going to do, and after some research and brainstorming we selected the video as a cooking recipe for a vegetable noodle. Then we assigned the roles. My duty was to film the video. According to the recipe, I gathered the ingredients and started to shoot the video. After finishing the drafts, I sent the video to my dear Yaren. She did the reading of the transcript we wrote collectively. Buğra did the editing part where he added music which Yaren chose and aligned Yaren's voice with my video shootings and our final work was ready ! 

Overall, I enjoyed working on a project with my friends once again. Hence, I would not recommend this assignment to my future students because I believe that without having a proper technological information background, this assignment is hard to achieve by yourself or with a group accurately. Also, my opinion towards the efficiency of this assignment with language learning is pretty negative. I think the other assignments were more useful and effective to language learning practice. 

Thank you for reading :) 

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