Week Eight/Reel Works

I could not get the video to post in this post.

I chose Minds in the Closet

What do you like about the digital story?

I thought the video gave a lot of reasons why people support or are against homosexuality. I think that interviewing a lot of different people in the neighoborhood gave a lot of different views on the subject. The story seemed very professional and was put together well. It was informal, but seemed to take a lot of time and thought on the subject of homophobia.

What did you learn from the digital story?
I learned from watching all the different stories that anyone can make a digital story on any subject. The person needs to pick a subject and be organized in creating the project.

How can digital storytelling promote critical media literacy? I encourage you to Google digital storytelling and critical media literacy to answer this question.

When I Googled digital storytelling and critical media, I first went to this website and thought that it answered this question the best. jasonOhler.com" Digital storytelling provides a great means to teach media literacy. Both computer-based and green-screen performance-based storytelling "lift the hood" on media persuasion and show students how media makers use technique to influence what we think and how we feel. Media literacy has always carried the connotation of being wary of how media is persuading our perceptions. That is, beause media is so powerful, we need to be especially aware of its power to persuade." I think that allwoing students the chance to create a digital story will excite them and get them to want to do more activities in a media based class. Digital storytelling allows for creativity, but would also be a way to incorporate some of the core subjects into the project as well. English and writing would obviously be one of the main subjects incorporated, but depending on the subject all of the core curriculum could be easily integrated and taught as well.