Live tweeting was a little difficult for me. I felt like it kept pulling me out of the day, perhaps because I was with children or maybe I am just not a huge Twitter person. Doing an Instagram post after the fact as a reflection or sharing the story of my day feels more manageable to me. I can organize my thoughts better, but I also use Instagram outside of this course and Twitter is brand new to me. Live tweeting felt a little chaotic and while I did remember the hashtags and got the right number of tweets it was difficult to get a lot of the good elements of storytelling properly tied in, or strong grammar and writing.
There is a beginning, middle, and end to the story but sharing videos and photos of our day was really the key in helping bring the story to life. It was my first attempt at a Twitter thread, perhaps live tweeting most of a day was too long a time to continuously tweet about it. Next time I will try live tweeting something exciting that takes a shorter time frame, like 45 minutes to an hour.
The synopsis of my Twitter thread is that I took a day trip to Musreau lake with a few close friends (Stefanie, Megan, and Jordon) and my goddaughters (Megan’s girls Ryley and Devynn). While I assumed that the story’s major conflict would have been my godchildren’s behavior, it turned out to be some less cooperative weather in the morning.
I am starting to get the hang of Twitter threads, and have been working to apply the basic principles of storytelling to get a more complete story.
Beginning: Preparing for the trip, picking up Stefanie, and the Journey out.
Middle- Climax or Conflict: Our arrival – we ate lunch, but the weather was not improving, and at this point, I was pretty convinced we were going to have to pack the kids up and head back into town.
End: The weather got better, and we ended up having a really wonderful afternoon of bonding time.
EXSM 3989 - Digital Storytelling Class Blog 