All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque
http://voicethread.com/?#u204354.b1442424.i7618168
The voice thread was the choice I did for the project. The jist of it was to try to show the theme which were the horrors of war through the presentation, and i thought that using a cartoonish type of web 2.0 tool wouldnt have portrayed what i wanted well enough. I think the talking about Pauls time at home was the most important and his return back to war the second most.
I have never been to fond of voicethread, however for what I wanted to do it was the most appropriate choice. Though I think that I could have done better if I had thought about a different web 2.0 tool. Though I think the voicethread is pretty good, I do not think it did the book justice in how important its message is.
Overall I enjoyed my novel. It was interesting and having read it previously for a different message, it was a interesting change to read it to discern meaning out of the text. For the next marking period I may chose another war novel, or a novel relating to or during the time period of a war.
You definitely made the right choice of media in trying to portray the darker, more somber tone associated with war. The melancholy color scheme helps your case. It's interesting that you read this book once but now find deeper meaning.
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