Program: Digital Stories - An Introduction

I appreciated the link to Rotary International on the UN. I also appreciated the comments from your Pakistani and Indian members.

I really liked the tutorial on Windows Movie Maker. 

The link on the Visitor's Help page to The Standard Rotary Club Constitution seems to be broken.

Nicely done.

I found the program extremely interesting and very informative. I would like to see it continue with a "lesson" about using video.

Well done!

Interesting and very educational-it got me interested in making Windows movies!

This was very interesting and helpful. I've been wanting to make videos but didn't know where to start. Thanks, Rushton!

Very helpful program

GREAT PROGRAM. i'LL TO TRY TO USE IT SOON.

how to create a video was entertaining and very easy to follow! I am certainly not comfortable with this type of process but the directions were even easy for me. Thank you so much! I will surely share with my fellow Rotarians.

This was great! I was able to put together a video in about ten minutes after reading this; now I have a whole new tool to play with!

Program introduces the audience to Microsoft's "Movie Maker" software which is an extra feature of many newer Windows products. Movie Maker enables virtually anyone, with the aid of the software, to make their own videos. Speaker Rushton Hurley provides an easy to follow step-by-step process for creating a simple video. He explains how each screen is displayed; and states how the various options can be executed. Using photographs already stored on one's personal computer, for instance, it is easy to lift and drag images to the software's "timeline" where transition effects, titles and audio can be added. Hurley's stated intention is not only to educate his audience about the software, but to encourage Rotarians to create videos as a means to sharing the good works of Rotary with the world. Video making, as it turns out, is easier than one might think. Excellent program!

I learned a great deal. Thanks for the step by step.

Excellent demonstration! I can't wait to try it out.

This program was very helpful. I am going to send it to our Web person, in case he needs it. A future program would also be useful on adding music and footage from videos (camcorders, etc.).

Great information. I am sharing this meeting with my husband. Thanks Rushton.

Excellent information on building digital stories. I downloaded the HurleyDigitalStories.pdf for future reference to build a story of my own for our club.

Thanks for this great how-to, Rushton!

Larry, great intro to why eClubs exist and my compliments on the invitation - like you say, it's important to us that we not pull folks away from traditional clubs, but rather to give a different option for those who otherwise would not join a club or would be looking to leave Rotary.

This was an excellent program. Thank you so much. I have Windows Movie Maker and did not even know it!! Really appreciate your ingenuity.

Great tutorial.

Great tutorial.

great stuff.....thanks

great stuff.....thanks

excellent idea about how to make estories

This was excellent and informative. L

Really excellent program!!!

It was a gret lerning tool

Very interesting. I wish I had the time to edit my own videos and put together a movie that others would enjoy.

Yes, excellent way to tell people how not to buy costly software and utilize something that windows provides you with. I use windows movie maker that comes with vista, I have vista ultimate SP2 and I find it really good.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I am a real dud when it comes to computer technology and am trying to learn to do different things on the computer. Creating digital videos is definitely one of the things I have wanted to become informed about. This program was extremely helpful to me - it was easy to follow and well explained. I know what I have learned today, will really help me when I go to make my first video.

Thanks for the Mac link. I watched it and it's similar, if not easier, and even adding music is a snap. Great job Rushton!

very useful! I appreciate the speaker's step by step approach that makes it easy to follow.

I enjoyed the program. It was interesting to learn that movie making could be so simple

Excellent, well written program. Thank you!

Your site for meetings is great. I almost want to try to make a movie.

Thanks Rushton for the quick tutorial. It certainly helps with the "fear factor" when thinking about processing a movie.

Awesome. I've never even tried iMovie and I have it on my MAc.

Excellent program Rushton ,I am certainly going to study it.

Joke was really cute...

This was great! It made me realize that making a movie is just as easy as creating a Powerpoint presentation, which I learned on my own. I may have not been inclined to try it before, thinking it would take too much time to learn. But not so!

I think this program may be beneficial for use in our business! Thank you.

A lot of information presented in an easy to follow manner. Thank you.

Very informatiive program on the digital stories.

Great Rotary internet capability.

Excellent.

Very informative

One of the more interesting programs I seen lately. I have a number of slide trays (from Viet Nam) with 40+ year old pictures I plan to try to use like those in the program. Thanks. Ron

Very interesting, I did not know that it is that easy to make movies. I will sure try it out.

Did this with my 8th graders last year. I am continually amazed at how creative some students are.

its nice to know new things and programs that are already on my computer. Nice work

Very interesting piece on the creation of a movie using slids of Rotary events to assist in spreading the goodwill and works of Rotary. I would add that perhaps use of one of the popular social networks like Facebook that can electronically be used to commnicate meetings across the globe but can incorporate movie activites on sight. Just a thought.

Interesting meeting, but I'm still intimidated about creating a video with MovieMaker.

This is very well done and easy to follow.

Great, very helpful program on the nitty-gritty showing how a fumble-fingered non-geek Rotarian can make a baisc video. Would be terrific as a session at the Canada RI Convention. Thanks! I even printed a copy for my daughter.

Hooray for Rushton. The tools to communicate are on everyone's computer, in some form. Since we are internet capable people, we can lead the way, the eClub technology is in our hands.

We shall try to attend the next Rotary UN Conference on 9 Nov 2010.

What is interesting is how this presentation overlaps what I teach about grant writing. Many non-profit organizations want to write a grant to get the money to do "good" and complete a project but they forget that the telling about how it was successful (or just what happened during the process) is an important part of future fund-gathering. This tutorial by Rushton is something that I see me incorporating into the process that I teach to arfs organizations when I go on Fulbright grants and work with them on fund-raising. A picture story is not just worth a thousand words but thousands in 'green stuff (money)' to an organization. It is not singing yout praise, either, but selling the future of other projects that are to come. Thanks, Rushton!

11-22-2009 Rushton Hurley’s “Digital Stories” is a truly valuable gift to all Rotarians. Here in a single, funny, and direct “nuts and bolts” presentation Rushton has walked us through all we really need to know to make a video slide show with narration. He leaves out all the technical stuff and just gives us the mechanical steps that we need to use our own photos to make a great looking slide show. This is an accurate and truly valuable presentation worth printing and holding onto for future reference. Rushton makes the point that Rotarians are frequently too busy doing good to tell the world about the good they’ve done. He’s right! But a little time and effort on the part of a few motivated Rotarians in each club around the world would do wonders for communicating what “Service Above Self” looks like up close and personal! Thank you, Rushton, for a treasure of a presentation! Brooks C. Sackett