Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote: A Migrant’s Tale
Projects by Miranda Brown
Digital Storytelling
Using one of the many webpages provided to guide our work, I chose to create a digital story that told the book from another character’s point of view. This seemed natural because the story was about Pancho Rabbit’s journey to America to find his father. In order to attend to author’s craft and provide a meaningful interpretation of the story, I used images to demonstrate sections of the story that I was narrating with text slides to suggest transitions. Sound effects were used at crucial parts of the story, such as the party and the journey. The digital story format naturally lends itself to story retellings of many forms. It would have been much more difficult to complete this using an infographic. The medium that I used to create the project, Windows MovieMaker, was one that I had used in high school. I had to reacclimate myself to the tools on the site, which took some time. Additionally, it took a bit longer than expected to receive an invitation to edit Weebly, which resulted in a few hours of troubleshooting! Eventually I decided to publish and upload the project to UW Box. Then, after granted access to edit the site, I discovered that the file size of my story was too large to be uploaded to the site, and I was required to republish the video with a lower image quality so as to reduce the size of the file. Fortunately, it all turned out, and the project is now more widely accessible on this site!
pancho_rabbit_digital_story.mp4 |
Infographic
I compiled the information in a layout that was suggested by Piktochart, a website that I only recently learned about and became accustomed to. Rather than creating an entirely new format on the new tool, I chose instead to focus on a color scheme and images that reflected that of my mentor text. The purpose statement suggested on the site that I chose was “Create an infographic that uses research to enhance understanding of an important issue raised in the book”. The infographic is designed to both help readers understand the story and understand the significance of the primary topic in the story, immigration. I attempted to use Piktochart to adopt Duncan Tonatiuh’s color scheme into my own project, and played with the images provided on the site to depict a compassionate and (hopefully) accurate display of images pertaining to the text. The infographic format proved to be effective at displaying information, but I was not sure what information to use, how many sources to cite from, or how complex the language should be. I did not want to overcrowd the poster and make it difficult to read, which I believe was my biggest challenge. Because the “situation” and “audience” (referring to the MMAPS guidelines) is specifically our college classroom, I chose to write the captions in a manner that felt natural to me. I did encounter challenges embedding it into the site, due to the provided instructional link denying me access to the URL. I troubleshooted with Piktochart's help guide.
Below is the link to my publicly published infographic, along with the JPEG image.
Below is the link to my publicly published infographic, along with the JPEG image.
https://magic.piktochart.com/output/16862025-pancho-rabbit-infographic