In a University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts online spotlight on teaching, I\u27m deemed to be The Open-Door Storyteller. The article notes: One of Jacobs\u27 goals is to teach his students media literacy—analyzing critically what they read, hear, and see—without reducing their enjoyment of the media. He encourages his students to learn how to tell their own stories as a way of influencing how the media in turn portrays them. Technology has been a key part of this process ever since I first stepped into the classroom as an instructor in my third year of graduate school, in 1995. I\u27ll still be using technology in the classroom when I retire, around 2035..
