Adapting to a New Culture
- Indicate what assessment/evaluation traits you selected and why (in other words, what's your rationale as a critic of these stories?)
- Story – This is a digital story so story should be the most important.
- Content Understanding – If the person is taking a stance or educating, I want to know that they know what they’re talking about.
- Originality, Voice, Creativity – I am interested in how these stories use creativity to help our generation stay engaged.
- The extent to which these traits are successfully present and utilized in the given stories
- Story – It was a pretty good story. I found it boring at parts but this might have been because it was hard to understand her. She told a good story about why she came to the United States and the impacts that it had on her.
- Content Understanding – She did a good job at content. I understood the differences between Japanese and American culture very well. She seemed very concerned with what people thought about her.
- Originality, Voice, Creativity – The author uses her own voice. This is both a pro and con. I like hearing her voice because she’s talking about coming from Japan. However, it is very difficult to understand her sometimes.
- What these traits fail to capture about the selected story (that is, what other characteristics of the story are noteworthy, and why?)
- The author did a great job at citing her sources at the bottom of the slides. I liked seeing these because I could tell what she had searched for and what the point of that slide was.
- Based upon your trait evaluation, what modifications and changes to this digital story might improve aspects of narrative, production, media usage, and/or audience engagement?
- She might use more words on the bottom of the screen because she’s very hard to understand sometimes.
- She might use more words on the bottom of the screen because she’s very hard to understand sometimes.