The story “Outside the Glass”, by Golden Jackson, mainly talks about one of her life-changing stories. According to the video, Golden Jackson was invited by one of her former students to teach a community service class. As she believed that the service could intensify students’ learning, she encouraged the students to challenge themselves, and broaden their horizons. She also put the ideas into action on her own. She and her colleagues developed a course specially tailored for preparation purposes. During the education process, she actively interacted with the students and the local community. This opened up new sources of knowledge and allowed her to embrace new ideology. While from students’ write-ups, she also discovered a rich knowledge of local community. In the end, the author concluded that such learning method is effective and should be promoted.
In general, the story is well developed. It is interesting to use the “Glass” as a metaphor to express the author’s emotional changes upon her experience. Her voice is clear and easy to listen for international students, but it may be a little slow when it comes to the local students. It is good to add others’ voice to make the video vivid, but it is too much, and the story becomes unorganized to some extent. Besides, the story is a little boring without any music during narrating. I recommend that she could add some parts of music to animate the video. The pictures are good. They are helpful to express the author’s idea, especially implicit images, such as the notebook indicating the writing. However, some of them are not match to the story in the end of the video. She could probably change these pictures. She also needs more work on the transitions. It would be more coherent and flowing.
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