Technical writing is hard to do, especially when every little detail counts.  For the most part, I got a lot of the little details down, but even so, I still missed some details that were crucial.  It was hard to express how to do something in terms that seem easy for you, but are not for others.

Tan's teachers steered her towards math and science due to test results showing better scores in those subjects.  Her English abilities were miscalculated due to her "broken" or "limited" English from being Asian American. Tan's point of the story is, no matter how much someone tries to push something on you, follow what you want to do.  This point fits into Mother Tongue by showing that even though people wanted Tan to explore math and science, she went with her heart and decided to go into English.

My digital story is either going to be about my woods, hunting, or hunting stories.  I plan to record video clips of my property and narrate.

Digital Storytelling can revolutionize the narrative experience by helping to create a more personal way of telling a story.  Instead of the old fashion verbal or written ways of telling stories, they can be told by movies, slides, and other digital ways.

 "Student Metaphors of Themselves as Writers" is an excerpt about a teacher assigning students to write metaphors about themselves.  He has see many kinds of metaphors such as, fear and courage, control, and silence.  The article is organized by telling about the students assignments, explaining how some metaphors are conceived and paced out, gives the different types of metaphors, and shows that metaphors can be a way of observing diverse people.  Each section of the article gives an example of a specific kind of metaphor and then gives examples.  The sections help provide the reader with the idea that when people create metaphors about themselves, and someone else reads it to get familiar with the writer's personality.

I agree with Middlebury College's policy because Wikipedia is not a creditable source.  It can be changed and altered by it's readers.  Students need to realize this and if the college's policy works, then so be it.  Faculty could also suggest academic journals to students for them to use, this will help students use creditable sources and not Wikipedia.

Personally, I like the movie better.  It gives me a better look at who Chris really was and his views on life.  However, the book shows how his parents really were better, the movie has a bias point of view with them.  I do think that when we watch movies, it has a greater impact on us because we are visual creatures.  We rely on sight quite a bit and this makes us prefer a version of something if we watch it rather than reading it.