LLED 7420: Teaching Writing: Digital Storytelling Question #2: As a writer, what appeals to you about writing across modes and media (in digital storytelling)? Or, what do you find particularly challeng...
I find very little appealing about writing across modes and media. I have no interest in the approach, as I find the greatest oxymoron to date to be the term "personal computer." What's personal about THAT? Also, what about kids from improverished households? How are they supposed to have access to these forms of "technology?" I, indeed, am not sanguine about sharing my intimate life moments with strangers. Therefore, I find this medium to be very problematic. Yes, I get it that kids today use this stuff to communicate and what not. Fine. I am not opposed to their doing such. However, I see my calling in English as one to inspire the students to love the best in literature and emulate the best works in their own writing (while finding their own "voice" at the same time). When it comes to making my own storytelling video, that will be a problem. My family didn't have the luxury of owning home video cameras, since we were more concerned with just getting food on the table, shoes on our feet, clothes on our backs, and a roof over our heads. Also, I have few photographs of family memories, and even those are difficult to obtain since members of the family are scattered here and there in the country and often hard to reach. Therefore, shouldn't something like this approach be within the realm of the theater teacher or technology education expert?
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