Digital Storytelling - How to meditate in 7 simple steps

Hi everyone!

   Today, I will be talking about digital storytelling. This new task includes 3 options. Creating a PSA, a How To video, or a fictional story. All projects are for 2 or 3 people. I teamed up with Yaren Topçu and Oğuz Kaleş. We chose creating a How To video project. Our topic is meditation. Before creating the video, we divided the task into 3. Yaren wrote the script and find the gifs and pictures, I vocalised the script and Oğuz edited the pictures, gifs and finally created our video.

   I just used my phone's audio recorder to record my vocalisation. Oğuz used Adobe Premier Pro 2020 to edit the video. For me, the process wasn't too hard but I worked on the script at least 20 times before starting to record my voice. After 3rd or 4th trial, I did my best and we decided to use it.

   I enjoyed doing this task and I would definitely use this task to encourage my students to use the language to create inspiring projects. These projects are very useful to help them be more creative and use English as well.

   Here is our video and my teammates' blogs:

Oğuz's blog

Yaren's blog

Feel free to contact me if you have any ideas, questions, and comments.

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