We met in our peer writing groups today and discussed our visual narrative projects. I ran my idea past my group members and they seemed to really like it. They think it is a good idea that I have a theme for my collage. It makes it more organized this way and keeps the audience’s […]
The theme for my visual narrative is going to be “Literacy Through the Years.” I plan on making a collage of images I print off of the computer and pictures of myself. I plan on incorporating elements of literacy from my childhood all the way up until my adult life now. I think by incorporating […]
We looked at a lot of movie examples in class. I noticed that the length doesn’t have to be extremely long to be a good visual narrative. These narratives are basically about expressing yourself and how you have progressed on your journey toliteracy. Some of the bad examples had a lot of grammatical errors. We really […]
When I was reading “What is CC,” I noticed that it gave an option for people who wanted to opt out of the copyright all together. My question is why would someone not want to copyright their own work?
Visuals are a very important part of communication. For me, I am a visual learner so visuals are a very important part of helping me understand material. Visuals help connect what a writer is trying to communicate in words in a visual way, such as using pictures and charts. Visuals are very important because they […]
Text messaging Reading Newspaper Reading magazines Reading street signs Reading instrutions on food labels Reading price tags Reading books Communicating with the people around me Writing papers Sending an email Writing notes and cards Writing in my assignment book Probably many many more!!
I think that in today’s world literacy means more than just knowing how to read. I think that you have to possess a certain skill level of reading to be considered literate. For example, just because a kindergartner has just learned how to read, I don’t think that this necessarily makes him or her […]