Discussing interactive digital stories
During the workshop session this week, we each shared our stories about HOPE. I shared my story about how I had bad feelings about a previous date and then had the courage to stop the date. This story gave me the feeling that it is important to have the courage to face up to your thoughts in emotions and to pay attention to and respect the flow of your emotions.
As the group gathered around to share stories, I found that I really enjoyed listening, learning about experiences I had never experienced before and discovering new things from other people’s experiences as I listened to them talk about their own. Especially being in an international class, surrounded by students from different countries.
What struck me was the story Renu shared about how her family was infected one after another during the global epidemic, and how one desperate night, when the anxiety and fear reached its peak, she finally saw the new world again at sunrise the next day. As she recounted it, it was as if she was back in the story of that time, emotions and sadness welled up and she cried out. Such genuine sharing and emotional outpouring infected every student as well. The atmosphere was so sincere that it must be a moment I will remember and cherish for a long time.
Everyone was immersed in the workshop with the most sincere attitude of communication, and it was the most touching moment to be the most trusting person to each other, not just as classmates in the classroom. Therefore, I think that apart from the external presentation of sound and video, digital storytelling should be exquisite, the content of the story must be one’s true feelings, even if the language is plain, it can still make the audience feel genuine.
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