Kindergarden Science Fair Project: Quilt About Hedgehogs
In January 2006, Sarah (then age 5) created a quilt with Shelly about hedgehogs for the science fair at Murfee Elementary School in Lubbock, Texas. Sarah was in Shay Troutman’s kindergarten class that year. This six minute video was originally recorded and created with Apple’s GarageBand software as an “enhanced podcast,” which is a media format that has since gone the way of the dinosaur. Fortunately, the website www.mov.to/m4a-mov supports free conversation of small .m4A audio files like this into standard MOV formatted videos, which can be uploaded and shared on YouTube.
This weekend I was looking through the contents of an old hard drive backup from 2011 and ran across this enhanced podcast, which I don’t think was ever shared here on our family learning blog or as a video on YouTube. I’m excited to be able to “digitally resurrect” this media file which Sarah and I co-created, especially to preserve and share her wonderful 5 year old voice!
If you are interested in creating different kinds of media files like this, check out my website, “Show with Media: What Do You Want to Create Today?” Of the 14 different kinds of media projects featured on the site currently, I think this Hedgehog media project would fit best in the “Digital Story” category.
