If a picture is worth a thousand words...how many words is a digital story worth??

I have to admit, before today's class I had about as much experience with digital narratives as I had with blogs a month ago...zero.  As I listened and learned how to use the software and perform all the actions required to physically construct the narrative, I couldn't help but think about Hull's article, and the deeper impact such a multimedia production.  Considering  the written word's ability to evoke incredibly powerful and lasting emotions, the possibilities of a digital narrative to affect an audience are incredible.  This combination of rhetoric, music, and image can simultaneously and even to some degree subconsciously facilitate an audience's thought process from multiple directions, similarly to how the human mind reacts when experiencing something first hand. 

While this is somewhat of a digression from the article, I found it refreshing for a movement to support and implement the use of such technological features as those discussed, into secondary education.  While surely there has been a push for higher technology in classrooms and more online-based courses, the use of a digital story is something I was never previously aware of.  In a society where many older generations look unfavorably upon the uses of advanced technology, I personally find this a very naive outlook.  While yes a certain balance must be met, and many are simply turned off from "our generation's" use of facebook and texting, there is an uncharted amount of good and social interaction that is made possible.  The ability to post something on the internet, that can be immediately viewed by someone half way around the world, cannot be underestimated.  This ability, for one person, to impact a million, is the key to a globalized world.  Social movements which in previous times might never have the resources to enact change, can now be started with the click of a button.