Thursday, April 8, 2010

A post mortem-DST

       Yesterday's presentations made me realise the little amount of time we have spent to get to know one another. Everyone in the class has a unique story to tell; stories that have to do with their personal lives and their concerns about particular issues in general. That's the power of Digital story telling! It gives us the platform to tell the audience stories in our own perspectives in our own ways using various semiotic modes. Some of the beautiful things I have discovered include love for own children and the amount of time we have spent to treasure their childhood period with us, feelings we have towards our grandparents, leaders, our hometown and culture, aware of the dichotomies of perspectives we have for different issues or concepts, and  aware of the latitudes that we have to do through in order to achieve a particular goal. The whole process of authoring the DST  produce a sort of gestalt sense  to its owner. Memory plays as one of the semiotic modes to make sense of whatever that is going on in the DST.

    I'm going to miss this module! The approach taken by our two professors is certainly different from those that I have attended before.