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Literacy Narratives: Key Features

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Literacy Narratives: Key Features

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  1. Literacy Narratives: Key Features Awell-told story. As with most narratives, those about literacy often set up some sort of situation that needs to be resolved. This makes readers want to keep reading. Some literacy narratives simply explore the role that information technology played at some time in someone's life. Vivid detail. Details can bring a narrative to life for readers by giving them vivid mental images of the world in which your story takes place. Some indication of the narrative's significance. By definition, a literacy narrative tells something the writer remembers about learning about information technology. And why the incident matters to him or her.

  2. Some guidelines Choosing a Topic In general, it's a good idea to focus on a single event that took place during a relatively brief period of time. For example: • any early memory about IT that you recall vividly • someone who taught you about IT • an aspect of IT that has been significant for you in some way • an event at school that was interesting, humorous, or embarrassing • an IT task that you found (or still find) difficult or challenging • a memento that represents an important moment in your IT literacy development • the origins of your current attitudes about IT • perhaps more recent challenges: learning to use a new programme, learning to construct a Web page

  3. Considering the Rhetorical Situation PURPOSE • Why do you want to tell this story? To share a memory with others? To fulfill an assignment? To teach a lesson? To explore your past learning? Think about the reasons for your choice and how they will shape what you write. AUDIENCE • Are your readers likely to have had similar experiences? Would they tell similar stories? How much explaining will you have to do to help them understand your narrative? Will they share your attitudes toward your story, or will you have to work at making them see your perspective? How much detail are you willing to share with this audience? STANCE • What attitude do you want to project? Do you wish to be sincere? serious? humorously detached? self-critical? self-effacing? something else? How do you want your readers to see you? MEDIA / DESIGN • Will your narrative be in print? presented orally? on a Web site? Will photos or other illustrations help you present your subject? Is there a typeface that conveys the right tone?

  4. Generating ideas and text • Describe the setting. Where does your narrative take place? • Think about the key people. Narratives include people whose actions play an important role in the story. In your literacy narrative, you are probably one of those people. A good way to develop your own understanding of the people in your narrative is to write about them. • Write about "what happened.“ A good story dramatizes the action. Try summarisingthe action in your narrative in a paragraph. • Consider the significance of the narrative. You need to make clear the ways in which any event you are writing about is significant for you now. Write a page or so about the meaning it has for you. How did it affect you? What aspects of your life now can you trace to that event? How might your life have been different if this event had not happened or had turned out differently? Why does this story matter to you?

  5. Basic elements of literacy Practices and Events (Barton & Hamilton 2000; Hamilton 2000)

  6. Guidelines and requirements: Your narrative Title: ‘The story of how I became a(n) __________ student Media: The PowerPoint slides should contain at least photographs & text, but you are encouraged to also include other modes of presentation. Planning: Draw a timeline of your IT literacy history. Content • The story you tell by using multimedia should be a chronological series of events told in a narrative style. • Pay particular attention to the people & circumstancesthat have played important roles in assisting you to develop IT literacy, the domains in which the events took place (e.g. home, school, community), as well as the challenges you faced in acquiring this literacy & possible turning points. • Do more than merely inform the audience (= render the facts in chronological order); your assignment should reflect your own insight into your IT literacy history & your IT identity, particularly in the conclusion.

  7. Guidelines and requirements: Your narrative Structure • Your multimodal narrative should at least have an introduction, body and conclusion. The body may be further subdivided into different phases or you may single out significant events, which you narrate in a chronological order.  • Creativity: Be inventive, creative & insightful.  • Referencing: All sources that you have used must be acknowledged on the last slide • Submission: Your lecturer will provide you with a G-Mail address to which you should e-mail your completed multimodal assignment. (Another option you could pursue would be to upload this assignment on YouTube & send the link to your lecturer). Please upload the presentation, or an appropriate link, to your group Wiki. Also submit a printed version of the PowerPoint slides in class to enable the lecturer (&fellow students) to provide feedback on your presentation.

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