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Case Study: commercial/high-quality digital story

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https://www.pbs.org/video/pov-hyphen-nation-armando/ Hyphen-Nation is a critical, personal, collection of digital stories. The compilation of 30+ stories is centered around the question: "The time I felt most American was..." Most of the stories both negative and positive focus on Americans that come from different backgrounds other than "White" Americans (although a few are showcased). The thing that I found important, that INTE 5340 was lacking a bit, in regards to another narrative, is the story and positioning of digital stories, opportunities, access, and identity for people of color. For me, being brown and viewed as the “other” a person not seen as “American” who will be teaching students much like me in background and physical characteristics teaching history…. I find it to be my obligation and duty to be mindful and consistent in the content I choose to teach and how I incorporate a marginalized narrative. Literally, the stories of “others” in American...