M4 AR

What is your official problem statement?

If I used digital storytelling with the after-school students, then will the digital storytelling keep the students attending after-school regularly?

How did your research end up shaping this?

With the EBSOCOHOST search, I found quite a few articles about how digital storytelling has been used with students.  The articles seem to be adaptive to what my project entails.  I was surprised that so many articles were available.  However, I had to make sure that these articles used the research for how digital storytelling affected student and not just a “how to do” article on DS.

What outcomes are you expecting?

To be truthful, I did not know what to expect.  I had contacted Kathy Craven from Full Sail University and she said that she didn’t know of much research with digital storytelling.  I was afraid that I would not find any articles about DS and research.  But, the EBSOCOHOST search yielded a good number.  Plus, I want to describe my after-school experience with the students.

How are your critical friends helping in this process?

My Critical Friends, except for one, are also involved with their projects.  I haven’t been able to contact all of them.  I think that Diigo group will certainly help in that regard.  I feel that once I write the first draft of the Literature Review and start writing the description of the project, my friends will have more to review and offering constructive criticism.

How is this month’s course helped in shaping your ARP?

This month’s ETC course has been a challenge for me.  I have never blogged before, to anyone, anywhere.  I have learned from this experience of how to communicate with blogging.  Also, this month’s course has helped in refining and posting the literature/articles to the AR site and blogsite.  This has helped in completing the task of reviewing the articles and choosing the articles that relate to the Action Research.