Memo faces the challenges of a demanding school and dealing with the death of his sister. He reflects on a time of crisis, treat them as problems or challenges to try to learn from.
Gustavo finds that all educational institutions are not created equal and decides to take action that he hopes will change his future and, who knows, maybe the planet's.
I took the digital story workshop model and worked it into an elective English course at EARTH University (Costa Rica), where I was a visiting professor from the U.S. My objective was to allow students to tell a story that they felt was important to them. We met for about one hour and 40 minutes a week for about 14 weeks.