My Ridiculous Recorded Voice

3 Stories I'd Never Put In My Autobiography

I really liked Animoto. It is incredibly easy to use and does not require that much work to make a cool looking slideshow to tell your story. I like that all you need to do is upload some pictures and a song to play over them. The only bad thing about Animoto is that you cannot really explain what's going on so you need to have obviously descriptive photos. In mine, you know it's about the 85 Bears because of the title, but as someone who knows nothing of football, you wouldn't be able to tell that they were the greatest team the NFL has ever seen, who each photo is of, and what the significance of each on is. But on the whole, I'll take this over the other two because of the incredible ease of use and lack of editing involved.

Scrapblog is the worst of the three. This is only because of the fact that you have to do everything yourself, i.e. backgrounds, borders, fonts, colors, angles, opaqueness, etc. For telling a couple minute story like we are, this is just too much work to put in compared to how much you get out of it. If I were making a scrapbook about a trip I just took on the other hand, Scrapblog would be by far the best because you can put everything on one slideshow, allow each viewer to advance at their own pace, and add descriptions of what's on each page. And as I said earlier, you can choose of everything will look, just like you would if you were making a real scrapbook. Overall though, Scrapbook just isn't good enough to make the 1-2 minute story we're telling in this assignment.

VoiceThread is pretty cool. I like how it's simple like Animoto and how you can add descriptions like Scrapblog. The only problem I had what that I forgot to make it public right away and couldn't figure out how to change it after it had been created. So I remade it, and it only took me a couple minutes because of the ease of use. Also, if I had a microphone, my story would be even better because you could hear it. People like listening a lot more than reading. In the future, this would be the one that I would use most often because it combines the best parts of Animoto and Scrapblog.