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This is my podcast entitled: How to Make a Great Movie This one minute podcast is a brief tutorial on using Windows Movie Maker to make great home movies.

Reflecting back over my work for this week's assignment, I realize how much I have learned about audio recording through Audacity and making quality videos through the easy-to-use software Windows Movie Maker. I compared the features and ease of use of Windows Movie Maker with that of Photo Story 3 that I worked with in Week 1 and with that of Wax.

Creating the podcast for the Week 2 assignment was not as daunting a task as the Week 1 personal digital story assignment. I had experienced recording audio in the Week 1 assignment and had worked with Audacity a little bit on my own prior to this class. The challenge was in writing a script that was short enough to meet the time restraints of this assignment, yet detailed enough to cover the important points of Windows Movie Maker software. I had to keep in mind the fact that I was producing a podcast to promote this software and to convince others to try it out. The next challenge was to read the script without making mistakes while recording. I practiced my narration several times before I did the actual recording. Overall, this project was effective in teaching me about the production of podcasts, and about the variety of video editing software that is available. I can see where this knowledge will be very useful in my role as an educational technology leader.