My view about “Outside the Glass” Zebin Chen

Golden Jackson, in the digital story “Outside the Glass” (http://digitalstory.osu.edu/stories/community/) presents the importance of survey through the experience which her friends and she educate students the courses about surveys in Honduras. Although it is challenging for them to move from familiar, comfortable condition to poverty area, they contribute to improve learning skills of students with aids by guiding them doing surveys and provide them courses such as community development and transmission of HIV. Meanwhile, they enlarge their scope of views from information showing by students and local citizens. At the end of the story, she maintains that survey play an important role for people to have a deep understanding of community and it is valuable experience to do surveys in varied areas.
As far as I am concerned, the digital story shows us the experience Jackson had in Honduras and then come up with the main idea. I believe it is better to present the purpose at the start and prove it by her experience about teaching students survey courses because it is easier for audiences to grasp the main point of the story. However, it is still an excellent story because of its engaging content which stimulates us to develop thoughts about the significance of doing surveys from different perspectives. The point impressing me most is the different voice provided by her students, which is more vivid to show the knowledge they got from their students and makes it interesting to listeners at the same time. Proper amount of details were offered to support it. Furthermore, it is smooth through the whole story with clear voice. But I recommend her to add some soft music when narrative her experience in Honduras. Both explicit and implicit images are used and these images match well with content, which helps to involve audiences in the story.