My Literacy is Cultural

My Digital Literacy Narrative

So I've been checking back on the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives, and I found that mine has been posted. It's like 14 mins long--didn't realize I did so much talking--but watching it, I remember why I posted on this earlier. The DALN project at Ohio State is an interesting project for all of the different ways that it can provide examples for Literacy Narratives in digital form; although, as someone who's participated and contributed to the archive, I really feel like it was just an amazing opportunity to speak about literacy in an intimate way--yes, technology and new media can allow for intimate, mediated experiences that might not have been possible if it were not for the presence and potential permanence that new media objects offer.

If you're interested in seeing me rattle on for 14 mins about the impact of culture on my literacy, click on the link, and then click on the view/open link of the page.
http://daln.osu.edu/handle/2374.DALN/1381

Literacy Archive On-line

Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives

While I was at 4Cs in Louisville, Kentucky, I had the opportunity to take part in a digital literacy archive project put together by the Ohio State.
A description of DALN from the website:

"The DALN invites people of all ages, races, communities, backgrounds, and interests to contribute stories about how — and in what circumstances — they read, write, and compose meaning, and how they learned to do so (or helped others learn)."

I did mine on a computer's webcam, so I imagine you might be able to do the same & I encourage anyone to register and submit. It's a really interesting project and something that's designed to be used in classrooms, as a part of helping students to understand that the acquisition of literacy varies.