According to Fields and Diaz’s Community Through Digital Storytelling, the main seven elements of
a digital story are point of view, dramatic question, emotional content, the
gift of your voice, the power of the soundtrack, economy, and pacing. Although digital stories are not a type of
writing, they are extremely great ways to tell stories. Digital stories are great ways for
academia. They allow their viewers to
use the same analytical thinking as papers or any type of text do, they just
include images. In addition to images,
they have soundtracks and voice narration which create a strong sense of pathos
to lure the viewer in more and feel a part of the story. Digital stories not only are useful for
academic purposes, but according to Fields and Diaz’s piece, they exhibit many
different characteristics as well. Many
corporations and large companies use digital stories in order to create their
image. They are also used to send
messages to their viewers, or even just for entertainment. A digital story is just another way for
humans to express a message and reach out to its viewers.
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Group Projects
Group projects are
extremely bittersweet for me. I love
that you can get so many ideas from different angles which are great for
brainstorming and collaborating ideas. I
also love the intrapersonal aspect of working in a group. It is also great when you are grouped with
people who are easy to work with (my group!!). It is sometimes challenging to
all agree on how things should work or making schedules overlap. Also, it is hard often to compromise; there
were no serious issues with this project but with some previous experiences in
my life it is a struggle for everyone to agree sometimes. For this project, it was great working in a
group. Individually, it would have been
a much harder project. There would have
been a lot more research for each person to do, and less variety because it
would be a one-minded project. Overall,
I am extremely happy we got to work in groups and bring our resources and
information from all different types and groups of people together to create a
strong paper.
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