Hey everyone:) I had this project due in my TE 401 class for the literacy portion of it. The project entailed training myself on a new form of digital literacy and then to use that literacy to teach another kind of literacy...if that makes sense. Anyways, I chose to make a digital scrapbook, or a "Scrapblog," on cultural literacy. Based on a lot of things we've been talking about in this class I thought it would be a good way to relate the two. I chose to focus a lot on the Insider vs. Outsider debate. I explained what it was and offered questions and ideas and put my opinion into it as well. I decided to reference the TE 448 blog and went over a lot of your responses to the Insider/Outsider articles and ended up devoting a whole page to some of your opinions. I referenced 4-5 blogs and gave those I used credit;-)
I'm posting the link to my project below as well as a few other resources I found in my research. I actually found some really great references and opinions of what quality multicultural literature is. It was really kind of interesting to take what I learned in this class and apply to another one.
ScrapBlog:
A really great source for multicultural literature:
The site above is basically a site made for teachers with a question and answer section with author's such as Joseph Bruchac, Gary Soto, Patricia Polacco, etc. They all share their advice, ideas, and opinions on how to judge and pick out quality multicultural literature. Each of the site's featured author's provides a list of Top 10 Books for their particular culture group which I thought was really cool considering a lot of us always have the question "What would be good in my classroom?" running through our heads.
Another thing that may be fun is playing around with the Digital Scrapbook idea. It may be a fun alternative to Facebook posting. You can also print the pages you make if you choose to make one.
Just something I though you would all enjoy:-)
2 comments:
For some reason I was not able to view your scrapblog :( but the idea sounds really cool. I love that you were able to incorporate TE 448 and that we were also able to help! I think that the insider/ousider debate was (of course) our most intense but the most beneficial. There really is no right or wrong to this discussion but instead helps to develop strong opinions! I am going to try to access your scrapblog some other way. Hope you get 100% on your project!!
Oh yea sorry:) I realized that the following afternoon and fixed it:) You should be able to view it now.
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