EACH REFLECTION HAS TO BE IN A SEPARATE WORD DOCUMENT SEPARATE FROM THE FINAL PR

EACH REFLECTION HAS TO BE IN A SEPARATE WORD DOCUMENT SEPARATE FROM THE FINAL PROJECT:
FINAL PROJECT INSTRUCTIONS AND RUBRIC: Project Descriiption
This project is intended to create an opportunity for you to share experiences “regarding stories about how — and in what circumstances — [you] read, write, and compose meaning, and how[you] learned to do so (or helped others learn)” (Digital Literacy Archives).
Your project should include both narration and reflection: the story itself and your thoughts exploring the significance of your literacy journey. The main purpose of this project is to help you understand how complex and fraught with tensions and triumphs all of our literacy narratives are. It is meant to help you understand how context, access, and culture influence our paths to learning. In other words, your first priority is to select rich moments in your journey and weave them together to tell a relevant story about your literacy experiences, but you should also reflect on the story.
In reflecting on the experiences you describe, you should discuss why these experiences are meaningful and significant both to you individually and to a broader audience. It is important that you make sure that this significance comes out through your story.
As you begin your project, please take some time to review the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives: http://www.thedaln.org/#/homeLinks to an external site.
Then, consider the following questions:
Why do you focus on some memories from your literacy past and leave others out.
Why is this story worth telling? Or more importantly, why do you want this particular story told?
How might it inform your readers about the value, struggle, reward, aspirations, failures, success etc. that accompany learning and literacy?
Additionally, this project cannot be a traditional essay. This means that I’m asking you to create something besides a traditional essay. You can choose to design a video, a blog, a multimedia piece, or whatever digital form you believe to be an appropriate genre. You will use the DLN reflection assignments to both generate material for your narrative and consider which medium will work best for your story.
Project Goals
Clear Rhetorical Situation
Audience: Select an audience. Note: The professor is NOT the audience; they are a reader.
Purpose: Write to reflect on experiences as a means of becoming more effective as a peer tutor.
Genre/Medium: Based on the audience, select an appropriate genre in a medium that supports the genre.
Voice/Tone: Select appropriate voice and tone based on audience.
Critical Thinking, Reading and Writing
Engage in critical thinking and reflection about your literacy experiences and how they have impacted you. What larger meaning about the role of literacy in our social and cultural worlds can you derive?
Use a variety of organizational strategies (such as, for example, organizing main ideas chronologically, sequentially, deductively, and inductively).
Clearly develop a central point about the significance of your literacy experiences throughout your narrative.
Provide evidence in the form of examples and rich details to support your main point. You should incorporate examples and details from more than one media (for example, images, audio, video, etc.).
Process
Each student will generate more than one draft for this project and integrate feedback from peers and professor.
Each students will work collaboratively to provide feedback to their peers.
Engage in creative invention practices and processes throughout text production.
Conventions
Adhere to format of selected genre.
Control surface features by revising and proofreading.
Document sources in APA/MLA as necessary
Helpful Hints
You might find it useful to talk to family members or friends that have knowledge of your literacy journey because they can offer multiple perspectives on the concept. They can also help you remember details that may have slipped from your memory, and help provide artifacts from your learning that might be incorporated into your project.
Timeline
Please see the Course Calendar for deadlines.
Project Requirements
Genre: Digital Literacy Narrative
Medium: As chosen by the author to best present their narrative (CANNOT be a traditional textual essay).
Audience: An external audience (i.e., NOT the instructor and/or your classmates) identified by the author.
Content: Your DLN should have a clear purpose/meaningful takeaway, include both narrative and reflective elements, and make use of strong examples and sensory details in support of the meaningful takeaway.
Process: You will develop your DLN through multiple reflections, drafts, and consideration of instructor and peer feedback. Your revised DLN submission should be polished, well designed/composed, and free of error.
Project Rubric
1 point – Project submitted on time
1 point – Project demonstrates deep reflection, personal insight, and meaningful engagement in meeting all project requirements
1 point – Project demonstrates consideration of instructor and peer feedback
DLN Reflection 1: Stretching the Meaning of Your Literacy Life
In this reflection, you will begin to develop your Digital Literacy Narrative. In order to get started, spend some time reflecting on the connection between the Digital Literacy Narrative assignment and the Writing Mentor practice you are building.
Reflection Questions
Reflect on each of the following questions as a guide:
What past learning experiences related to literacy inform your practice as a Writing Mentor?
What positive experiences have you had in the past related to literacy? What negative experiences have you had?
How have those experiences impacted how you define your role as a student? How do they define how you view teaching and teachers?
How might your relationship to literacy impact your relationship with students?
How will your own struggles with literacy influence how you explain students’ struggles or work with students who are struggling?
Requirements
Your reflection should be at least 500 words.
Make sure to include at least one multimodal element that enhances your reflection.
Use an APA title page with 1″ margins and a 12-pt font. Your paragraphs should be double-spaced and indented 1/2″.
DLN Reflection 2: Outlining the “Main Events” of Your Literacy Experiences
This week you will expand on last week’s reflection by considering the “main events” that will structure your literacy narrative. In order to begin to outline your DLN, you will be reflecting on the experiences you have had with literacy and learning both positive and negative. Spend some time reflecting on the connection between the digital literacy narrative assignment and the writing mentor practice you are building.
Reflection Questions
Reflect on each of the following questions as a guide.
Choose 3-4 important experiences or events in your literacy journey and describe those events in detail.
Then, discuss why they are important to how you define yourself and your relationship to literacy.
How have these events shaped your identity in relation to your learning? That is, how does your experiences with and view of literacy impact your sense of self?
What impact have these events had on how you approach your work as a Writing Mentor?
What medium/platform/format do you envision using to create your DLN? How will you be able to best communicate these events, knowing that your DLN cannot be a traditional textual essay?
Requirements
Your reflection should be at least 500 words.
Make sure to include at least two multimodal elements that enhance your reflection.
Use an APA title page with 1″ margins and a 12-pt font. Your paragraphs should be double-spaced and indented 1/2″.
DLN Reflection 3: Developing the Multimodal Elements of Your Literacy Narrative
This week, you will continue to develop your DLN. In order to begin to outline your narrative, you will be reflecting on how you will develop the multimodal component of your literacy narrative. Consider the main events you outlined last week and what media might best help you to enhance, personalize, and/or broaden your readers’ understanding of those experiences. Spend some time reflecting on the connection between your experiences and how you might best present them.
Be sure to read the text on multimodal project design. Note this reading is also on the Learning Materials page in this module.
Reflection Questions
Reflect on each of the following questions as a guide:
What multimodal elements will you use in your DLN?
Why did you choose those multimodal elements? What will they add to your narrative?
How will they help readers to engage with your story?
How will they change, enhance, and/or compliment the meaning of your narrative?
How will you incorporate these multimodal elements into the medium/platform/format you have chosen for your DLN?
Requirements
Your reflection should be at least 500 words.
Make sure to include at least 3-4 multimodal elements that enhance your reflection.
Use an APA title page with 1″ margins and a 12-pt font. Your paragraphs should be double-spaced and indented 1/2″.