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Using the feedback during class, I will be able to develop my theme within my visual narrative more thoroughly. Since I have a pretty good start on my assignment, I was able to consider my group member’s feedback better than if I had not started. I have only a few finishing touches in order to complete my visual narrative assignment. My group members liked the ideas I had for my visual narrative and the creative things I am planning on using to complete my project. We also dicussed citations during our group conversation. We brought up issues that we were unsure of and asked Brittany for instruction. After the feedback I received during our writing group discussion, I realized I am going to have to revise my visual narrative assignment in the area of citation, because I was not aware of everything that needed to be cited. I will have to review my assignment before completion and include a citation according to the appropriate sources. Talking with my writing group members gave me more ideas and creative insight to my project and I may be able to include citations to compliment my theme, rather than just including a Works Cited page. Hearing what Danielle and Jilian are planning for their visual narratives helped me reaffirm whether or not I was headed in the right direction. While Danielle plans to use her visual narrative to show progression, I plan to present a common theme. Using the criterion for the visual narrative assignment on the sheet Brittany gave each group was also very beneficial.

I have already started my visual narrative project. I decided to focus on something I not only enjoy, but want to pursue as a career. My visual narrative focuses on the types of literacy I perform at the library I work at. The main idea or theme of my visual narrative encompasses my daily abilities that include literacy that are unique to the job. I have chose to present the visual in collage form and in a way that also represents a few literacy elements within the job description.

How does being mutli-lingual positively or negatively effect one’s literacy capabilities?

We use visuals to help learn. Some find it easier to retain information visually rather than by hearing it read to them. Visuals play a huge role in communication because being able to interpret symbols, draw diagrams, and read maps indicates whether you are visually literate and thus assists you in part of your ability to communicate. Visuals are important to my education because it helps me associate and relate what I am seeing and learning with aspects in my personal life. Using visuals in my future career as a teacher will be vital as each student is an individual and requires different strategies to effectively learn. As a teacher, if I choose to use only one set of tools to teach, I will be limiting my students’ literacy.

Txting

Phone Conversations

Submitting applications

E-mails

Face-to-face conversations

Searching the Internet, checking and reading e-mail, Facebook, or Myspace

Taking notes in class or folowing along with the textbook, overhead, or Powerpoint

Reading novels

I expect to learn about multiple literacies from this class and how they relate to or will benefit my ILA/AYA major. I understand literacy to be the ability to read and write a language. We write to be able to communicate and understand one another. Writing is important in learning about our history, as well as our present and future.