blog#8

Golden Jackson, in her digital story “Outside the Glass”, describes her unforgettable experience of teaching a course to prepare students for services in Honduras. At the beginning, the author mentions that teaching abroad is a great challenge for her because she had to move out from her comfortable life，but in order to experience a different life and expand world view, she decided to take this task. However, during the teaching, she realized that not only the students received knowledge from teachers, the teachers also learned a lot from the community and students, for example, the hospitality, the abilities and the valuable community asserts. What’s more, she states that the service learning program is a good platform to introduce different cultures, life styles and social organizations. At the end, she encouraged people to go out and experience different life.

  Personally, I think the video is pretty good. Firstly, it has a clear topic about the experience of teaching in Honduras. Through the video, we can easily feel the changes of author, whether in her world view or her spirit. The life in Honduras not only influenced her a lot, but also gave us a new view of world-the world outside the glass. Moreover, it is an interesting story; it shows an unfamiliar world to us. The good environment and hardworking people leave me a deep impression, especially the loud cock crow. The quality of voice is good; the sound is clear but she spoke a little fast for international students, sometimes I could not understand what she talked about. The images of the story are good, but not outstanding. Some pictures could not express author’s real emotion and some pictures were not related to the topic closely. After the program, author has a new understanding of life, and she tried to deliver her new understanding to us through her digital story, and she did.