Digital Story Example: High School
- 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 – The story here was actually quite surprising. When I read the title “High School” I thought it would just be a boring summary of what this person did in high school.
- Content Understanding – There really isn’t a whole lot of content here for the author to understand or not understand. She does talk about her school in Brussels and her experience there with charity work.
- Originality, Voice, Creativity – The voice is what initially got me interested in this video. When the video started I thought it would be boring because of the title but I immediately noticed that the author had an accent. This got me interested to see why she was in the US.
- What these traits fail to capture about the selected story (that is, what other characteristics of the story are noteworthy, and why?)
- This story was quite surprising. It started out as a story about her high school experience but it actually ended up as a lesson to provide the resources to students that they need in order to become their best selves. She makes a point that she doesn’t know if the charity was because of her upbringing or if it was always there and the school just brought it out in her. I definitely think more experiences like these for our students would be very worthwhile.
- 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?
- I’m not sure she really needed to go into detail about how bad the US school was. That didn’t seem to have an impact on her point of the story. It seems like the point was that we need to provide everything we can to students in order to see them be successful. However, it seemed almost condescending the way it talked about US schools which immediately was a turnoff.
- I’m not sure she really needed to go into detail about how bad the US school was. That didn’t seem to have an impact on her point of the story. It seems like the point was that we need to provide everything we can to students in order to see them be successful. However, it seemed almost condescending the way it talked about US schools which immediately was a turnoff.