Blog 8: Digital Story Summary and Critique

The digital story “Outside the Glass” made by Golden Jackson, which retired from digitalstory.osu.edu/stories/community, explores on the experiences she has gotten from service mission to Honduras. Golden in the beginning explains that she used to encourage her students to visit another places. However, that was one of the reasons which made her accepted the invitation for teaching a course and then been a part in this trip. She notices that while they went to visit Montana de Luz, they developed a course about cultures awareness, poverty, and the rise of Aids in this small town. She points out that working with students and children, add many experiences to her record and showed her how warm and friendly culture in Honduras. Golden agrees that students from this service learned to build a strong self-confidence, and developed their understanding of Honduras economy, culture, and living conditions on collaborating with community. In the end of the story she recommends that an experience like this should not be missed, because it was a different experience than what she used to have in Ohio. 

I thoroughly enjoyed watching this story. It got me thinking about having a trip to Honduras. I think the story made a point that people should not be stayed “behind the glass” and they should start thinking about having a trip to other places where other people need their help. The story’s title is great. And I like the order which takes the readers from a simple trip in the beginning to a developed mission full of learning and helping. The switch from Golden experiences to her students was amazing.  I was really surprised when she said that she learned many things from Honduras’s children. Golden’s voice was heard and understood. Words are spoken clearly, and her accent was catchy. The pictures she did pick are matching with the story script and her voice. Most of the pictures were symbolism and real. The rhythm and the voice punctuation fit in the story, which made me got into it. The story is told with a good right amount of information and explanation. As a viewer I think the end of this story was like a beginning to another story.