Literacy Timeline
The
most logical part of my timeline was trying to place my literacy and writing in
chronological order. Basically, I tried to think from the past to the present.
I think for me it was very hard remembering details because it is to remember a
lot back when I was a child. Getting photographs was very hard because my
parent were never the type to take pictures or record things. They did not do
this because back when I was a child they were not good with technological
things and barely understood English.
I
noticed some things when I was doing my timeline. I realized that I do actually
like reading if it is something that I am interested in. Also, I learned that I
do actually like to write if it is an easy topic or subject to actually write
on. I also learned that read and writing is important now and in the future.
I
actually noticed a theme throughout my timeline. The theme was basically
magazines influenced my skills and hobbies. I focused on a variety of magazines
such as sports, health, and cars, etc. I learned many things from reading
magazines when I was a little kid. I learn many things about cars and
professional sport players.
I
decided to make my main focus on my narrative based on magazines. I decided to
pick magazines because I loved reading them as a little kid. I love magazines
because it is very easy to read and it is not boring. It actually has some
color to it unlike old-fashioned books. It was difficult for me to pick an
experience. I could not recall many experiences with magazines. I probably came
up with maybe 4 or 5 when I was writing it down on my paper. I do not know but
whenever I finish with a magazine I just do not recall what I did while I was reading
it, so it was very hard to find a lot of experiences.
Making
a timeline actually taught me that I can recall some parts of my reading life
if I think really hard or if I ask my parents. It also taught me that life goes
by really quick. It told me that I actually like to read and write on my own
time.
Literacy Narrative
I
narrowed down my area of focus based on magazines and some experiences I had
with some magazines that I have read. It was pretty difficult with trying to
center my ideas. It was hard because I can only write about magazines so much.
It was hard trying to write it in a straightforward story because I have had
other experiences with comic books, books, and others. I just narrowed it down
to magazines because it has influenced me a lot.
When
I started to begin my narrative, I tried to organize it in chronological order.
I tried to place which magazines I read first in order from the past to the
present. It started with kid magazines into adult magazines. It was pretty
difficult putting my thoughts onto a paper because it takes some time for me to
think. It takes me time to think of the past and other things. I like to take
my time and do not like to be rushed. Some strategies I took when writing the
draft was to take notes, put ideas into bullets, make a pre-timeline, and plot
out random thoughts onto paper.
After
the peer review editing, I change around some of the wording. I also changed
some verb tenses as well as spelling errors. I also omitted run-on sentences.
My partners were helpful because they spotted errors that I did not recognize
or missed. They helped me to improve my writing. They told me some of my
grammar errors and to omit some of my words. They were very helpful.
I
was not thinking of a video because I thought I thought it was going to be
another normal paper.
Animoto Slideshow
My
partner did choose some of my best sentences. They chose of my introductory
sentences to use and also some of the sentences of magazines that influenced
me. I used maybe around 6 or 7 of the sentences into my slideshow.
It
was pretty difficult editing my slides down into 52 words. I had to take some
words out or try to find the synonyms of some words. I also had to use the
& sign instead of saying and. I really had no strategy. I just tried to put
the words fit in there as much as possible or putting it into 2 slides.
My
images were a complimentary text to show some of the pictures of some magazines
I read. Some of it showed relationships such as my parents. It was also to
provide for details for my slides.
Some
images were from the web and some was some of my own pictures. I had to take a
picture of my picture because I do not have a scanner.
My
song I chose was Pursuit of Happiness. I chose this song because I like the
beat and instrumental too it. I would put the real song but it has too many
inappropriate quotes in it. It is like my pump up song. I tried tying it with
my literacy by making it for entertaining.
I
could have ended my animoto differently. I could have with a summary slide or something
else.
