While traditionally literacy has meant reading and writing, we have begun to discuss math literacy, digital literacy, and research literacy.
Assignment:
The first composition in one of the fyc classes I am teaching culminates in a personal literacy digital narrative. Students are allowed to choose to present on anything they remember learning, though I recommend having it be something that they learned vocabulary for as well.
These can be quite well done. I have received excellent videos on such diverse topics as learning to sight-read music and moving to a new country. One student did one on how she learned to enjoy reading and another did one on how to train Pokemon (which you would have to have learned how to do in order to provide an instructional video).
Problem:
While I had quite an interesting collection of examples to show, I somehow managed to misplace the main USB file the digital narratives were in. Because of that, and time constraints, I only showed three examples before asking the students to think about topics for their own videos. Unfortunately, the topics they have come up with all follow the examples fairly closely. That means they won’t be particularly good or varied, I think.
Resolutions:
I am trying to find the other videos and sending emails to last semester’s students, asking if they would mind sharing their videos again.
I am also going to put up a list of potential topics, including the two that I considered for my own video last semester.