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Karen’s Digital Literacy

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Disclaimer: No media was added because I didn’t know how to but will be fixed on the timeline. So, here is the timeline: http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/336102/Karens-Digital-Literacy/

When I started coming up with events for my digital literacy timeline, I couldn’t come up with anything. Then, I thought a little more and put down incidents that were not necessarily life-changing, but were quite meaningful in shaping who I am today. After having a concrete idea of what I would include in my timeline, I saw that there was a common theme between the stages of my digital literacy.  This theme pertained to my values, my global perspective and my most central interests. Essentially, these points represent me very well and I would have never thought that my use of writing, reading and technology would define me as much as it does.

Learning how to read and write around the age of five is a milestone that most people go through. However, I became literate in Spanish because I moved to Barcelona before I learned how to read and write. Already, my first written word was in a language that was not my mother tongue, as I am from Brazil and spoke Portuguese. This brings up an event that happens just a few years ago, in sophomore year of high school, when I read my first book in Portuguese. It was extremely ironic that I could read and write properly in English and Spanish but took much longer to do that in my first language.

The following steps, that still relate to the idea that I am a global citizen, is the fact that I started learning new languages such as Dutch and French. Therefore, I was exposed to new vocabulary through books and it made my literacy more holistic.  What is interesting is that I don’t remember how to speak in those languages as much as I am proficient at reading and understanding them. It is odd but learning it in class and not practicing it in conversation has made me frame my knowledge of the languages through texts. Moreover, studying Mandarin through tutoring while I lived in China was a whole new experience with my literacy because I delved into learning characters and it changed my prior perception of writing. The characters require a certain sequence to be written and are basically drawings.

Then I started exploring my religion/ethnicity by going to Sunday school to learn Hebrew and then went on to study for my Bar Mitzvah. Through that, I was able to start reading Hebrew but still don’t understand what I am reading, even though I somewhat understand the language.

Moving around and travelling brought me to buy an Amazon Kindle and then I could read as many books as I wanted without having to carry them around wherever I travelled, which proved inconvenient for long trips.

Later I moved back to Brazil, after eleven years abroad. This was a huge shock for me because I didn’t fully grasp my own culture. Then, protests started happening against the government all around Brazil. I only watched CNN and BBC, as my news sources, and felt that there wasn’t enough international coverage on the protests and so I got a Twitter account only to tweet about wanting more attention to be given to what was going on in Brazil. I was successful, as the next day I was emailed that CNN acknowledged my concern and was going to focus more on the protests. This moment of political advocacy led me to start writing about social justice issues on my school’s magazine The Talon, specifically about women’s rights. This ran along with participating in Model United Nations, and there I developed an ability to write resolutions and make them compelling.  I wasn’t just more political by using my literacy; I was using it creatively as well. I began to explore my more artistically literate side when I started writing scripts on Celtx for film class, but they were still quite politically driven.

Finally, my literacy has led me to the final stage of my life, in which I am in now. I got here by writing my college applications. Now that I am at NYU, I have subscribed to the New York Times online and home delivery, but I feel like I will just have the online version because paper takes up too much space and kills trees. To have some mental health, I have also started journaling to connect with my thoughts for only a few minutes and also record my time here.

Overall, my literacy demonstrates my background and has evolved to take me to where I am today.

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“The…” Digital Literacy Narrative- Kas Ghobad

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The story of my digital literacy dates back to preschool as far as I can recall. It all began with pencil and paper, as I became quite influenced by one of my teachers. She believed I was some sort of artistic genius just from looking at what I would draw and was my inspiration to begin painting (but that interest didn’t last long at all). It didn’t seem to matter much at the time, but drawing and painting were my first forms of expression and I feel that it makes them somewhat important for orienting the context of this timeline.

As I entered elementary school, I had already been acquainted with a computer at home and started playing videogames almost constantly in my free time, while at Wolftrap I learned how to read and write the alphabet. The importance of videogames and this area of technology was mostly magnified by my dad and his side of the family, who were really into a game called Diablo 2. It was odd actually, the entire family would gather together to play the game cooperatively at times and I think what I began to crave most was finding more games like this. Perhaps it was because I had some of my best memories during my early childhood just playing that game with my relatives and I realized it was more than just a game but a way to connect with people.

Throughout the later years of elementary school, I still spent plenty of time on the computer, but meanwhile I became a fanatic of fantasy and fiction novels and would read straight through an entire series as fast as I could. Simultaneously, I was drawn to movies like the Lord of the Rings trilogy and Harry Potter of course (though I refrained from reading them until much later and I have no idea why).

In middle school and early high school, social media played a much bigger role in my life than I’m willing to admit. It was mostly Facebook that I wasted my time with (and still do) though I was never a fan of actually making posts. When I got my first smart phone in 9th grade, the amount of time I spent communicating digitally drastically increased and ever since I’ve felt less human for constantly retreating to the cyber domain to talk to people.

In my last two years of high school, I became much more aware of the intellectual importance of almost every art form, including literature, film, music, and even videogames. It began when I started listening to a much wider range of music and ended with the discovery that gaming has always been an art form in it’s own right, I just never took the time to realize why I played and what games meant to me.

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MY DIGITAL LITERACY NARRATIVE – SAKSHI AGARWAL

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So my story has a quite strange beginning: I could not speak until the age of 3. While I was doing speech therapy, my mom had the ingenious idea of reading to me every night as a way of communicating with me through books. My earliest memory is of me reading a Ladybird nursery book while my mom made strange noises (that was her way of trying to get me talking).  As you can see, I learned to read before I could even talk. Literature has ever since been a part of who I am. I read books like I breathe air.

Fast forward a few years, I had my first e-mail account. My dad created it for me and it was his ‘brilliant’ idea to fashion my e-mail id after his: sakshi_uae@hotmail.com. I used that account for 8 years until Microsoft transformed Hotmail into Outlook in 2012. As the years passed, I learned how to use Microsoft Word, which has since played a significant role in my writing process. I forayed into the world of social media for the first time when I (secretly) created a Facebook account in 2007. My childhood friend Asha introduced me to it and since I was just a neophyte (or plain stupid), my first Facebook post is this:

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Since then, Facebook has continued to be my predominant social media platform (I don’t like Twitter!)

I have also been an avid blogger since 2010, when I created my first Tumblr account (the Tumblr blog I use now is from 2011).  My love for blogging compelled me to create a short-lived WordPress blog about women’s rights and their contributions to society. Through blogging, I realized I could be an activist of social change. I became more active in this arena when I started working at NGOs and village schools where I taught poor children English.

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Embarrassingly, this was my version of being ‘cool’ when I was 15.

I became serious as a writer when I created my first (and probably only) digital magazine on teen health. It was an exciting experience that made me realize that I loved writing. I also wrote my first published article on personal care, which appeared in an independent magazine called one8one. But when I had to write a short story for my English class, I realized that I was more of a ‘non-fiction’ writer because I like writing about life and the world.

However, the year 2012 was a very hard time for me personally as I had to deal with the loss of a loved one. Thus emerged my phase of journal writing that started from the creation of an online journal, which changed to an art journal and finally became a paperback diary. It was an experience that transformed me as a person and a writer, because I was able to vent my anger and frustration and also reflect on my life. Journal-writing was my therapy and a way to cope with life.

It was interesting to condense my experience with media in this narrative because I could see the growing role that it played in every aspect of my life. Throughout the process, I realized that media has also had an overarching presence in my writing. It has challenged me as a writer and allowed me to explore my hidden depths. No matter how many people curse modern media, I am confident when I say that I have become a better writer because of technology.

And now I present my timeline:

http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/336107/My-Digital-Literacy-Narrative/

 

 

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Alex Hanson: A Digital Literacy Timeline

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Reading and writing have always been very influential parts of my life, and various forms of media and technology have played important roles in shaping the development of my literacy. I started learning how to read using the Hooked on Phonics program, which uses board games, card games, and videos to increase vocabulary and make learning to read fun. When my younger brother got old enough, he and I would play with Hooked on Phonics every day. Our favorite game was learning how to read. Our competition continued with computer games that were centered around puzzles and challenges related to reading, grammar, and sentence structure. My love of storytelling caught flame when I picked up a copy of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.

Reading Harry Potter on the train with my dad one morning
Reading Harry Potter on the train with my dad one morning

In middle school I discovered a love for writing and explored it in every way I found possible. In sixth grade I started a newspaper for homeroom called “The Hazard Headlines” using the Pages program on my home computer. Journaling about my day-to-day life became an essential part of my weekly routine. At the end of eighth grade, I got to write a story about a third-grade student from my school and give it to her as a gift. This project, written on my Mac desktop at home, was my longest work of writing I had ever done at the time. It was very exciting to see my story be published and read by a younger student.

In high school I continued to find new ways to tell stories and work with different kinds of media. Through my high school’s video production program, I got to write and direct short films. Most of my projects, including “Doodle” and “Ursula,” were written on a script-formatting software called Celtx, shot on Sony cameras, and edited using either Final Cut Pro 7 or X. Some, like “Alex Hanson…In the Form of a Personal Essay” or “Creative People Are Drawn to Creative People: A Proof” were documentary style movies that didn’t utilize a script, but still involved forms of writing in the production. My personal essay was structured by a voiceover compiled of journal entries from my middle and high school journals. “Creative People” showcased the artistic endeavors of my friends, including their scripts and poetry, but was also accompanied by a related Storehouse blog made up of text, pictures, and short video clips from the documentary.

In addition to video production, I sought out more forms of writing and sharing my work. I continued journaling and started doing more creative writing outside of class. Each year of high school my writing and art was published in my school’s literary magazine, “Reflections.” In my senior year I became a co-editor-in-chief and utilized InDesign, Photoshop, and GoogleDocs to put together the publication. The summer before my junior year, I interned at Tone It Up!, a company that promotes women’s health and fitness through workout and nutrition programs. During my time there I got to see how media and business work together by managing Twitter feeds, Facebook pages, and blog posts to connect with the company’s large consumer base. I put those skills and my creative writing together when I started my own personal blog the summer before my senior year of high school. Alex in Wonderland is a Blogger site where I post my short stories, poetry, art, short movies, and ideas. All of this experience with reading, writing, and media came to be incredibly useful when I applied to colleges in the winter of my senior year. College applications, submitted through online application portals, require not only a significant amount of writing experience to speak of, but a tone that emits both personality and intelligence, which only comes by practicing often.

This picture was featured in my high school's newspaper when they ran an article about student bloggers.
This picture was featured in my high school’s newspaper when they ran an article about student bloggers.

I found a love of poetry through Poetry Out Loud, a national recitation contest in which contestants choose poems from an online data base and memorize them for recitation contests at their schools. I participated in this program my sophomore through senior year. At the tail end of my senior year I participated in open mic nights to practice my recitations and share my work.

A collage illustration for "Jupiter's Pink Balloons," a poem that is both featured on my blog and that I recited at Coffee Cartel and In-House Arts.
A collage illustration for “Jupiter’s Pink Balloons,” a poem that is both featured on my blog and that I recited at Coffee Cartel and In-House Arts.

Whether it be through VHS tapes, paperback books, handwritten journals, blogging platforms, or pure memorization, the technology that has influenced my relationship with reading and writing has varied throughout the years. Creating this timeline has been eye-opening to the wide variety of forms of reading writing I have experienced in my lifetime so far, and leaves me excited to see how technology will shape my applications of writing in the future. My digital literacy timeline showcases these important elements of my life, how they affected me, and the tools used to build and interact with them. Where applicable, the events include links to the short films, blogs, poems, and websites I refer to in my timeline.

http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/336098/Alex-Hanson-A-Digital-Literacy-Timeline/

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Digital Literacy History – Josh Melnick

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My digital history dates back to my earliest waking memories. It might have been video games that flipped a switch in my brain and triggered my consciousness. My mother brought home a computer from her work and set up a game from 1993 called Myst. I spent as much time as I possibly could playing Myst. I loved it. Looking back, I didn’t interact with it in any ways that the game considered meaningful, but those interactions were still deeply powerful to me. Exploring a desolate cryptic island opened my eyes to what could be done in digital media.

My next milestone was another simple program my parents installed in that computer, Kid Pix. For those unaware, Kid Pix was a very basic image editing program that was based on simple tools, primarily stamps. It was accessible and user friendly; It allowed kids to create things. While they rarely amounted to much more than refrigerator art, it was still creation.

The next few pieces of my timeline involve writing. Writing has always been an important means of communication and expression for me, and it all started with self-expression about games. Almost all of my important moments of writing and digital interaction are in some way traceable to games.

In high school, I started writing for fun. Mostly in a blog that no longer exists, but also largely on Twitter. Twitter became a very large part of my professional networking, and I quickly built a digital rolodex. Once I started speedrunning and playing competitive fighting games, Twitter became even more important in staying connected with distant friends.

In late 2013, I started doing a little PR in independent games for friends who were showing their work off at festivals and conventions. It’s unclear exactly where this history is leading, in terms of a future career in writing or in PR or one of a number of other options, but the influence of games on my life has been dramatic and it seems unlikely that is going to change.

Not only has digital media become my passion, but it also frames my interactions with other people, both professionally and personally. Twitter has forced me to make my writing public and encouraged brevity. I have spent my whole life trying to find my voice in my writing, and Twitter has perhaps done more than any other singular writing tool to help me develop it.

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This is my Timeline. You can find it by following the link.

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Making this timeline was like cooking in the middle of the night. You wake up at 2 am and want some pizza, throw a frozen one you got at CVS 3 days ago, accidentally fall asleep, wake up an hour later in a panic because you remember the pizza, and then you realize you never turned on the oven. The reason I say this is because going through my day I would just remember super important stuff that I forgot to put in there. Stuff that clearly had an impact on me that I just sort of forgot. Like the fact that I have to relate everything to frozen pizza.

Like with all presentations, I had to make it fun. Not necessarily while working on it, but for the future when I’m presenting it. Everyone in class is required to listen to me talk for 5 minutes, so I may as well make it fun. I realized through this timeline that everything I have done prepares me for delivering information in an entertaining way. My brother and dad both have ADHD, and are also the most hilarious people I know. So I had to keep their attention, through jokes and being interesting. An uninteresting person can only fake being interesting for so long. I’ve grown up in an environment where being entertaining is a survival skill. I don’t really have the physique of someone who can afford to not have a personality. I hope the presentation reflects that.

Here is a link. I bet it will take you somewhere, preferably on the interenet: http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/336105/This-Is-a-Good-Timeline-Worthy-of-an-A/

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Timeline Reflection

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My experience in reading and writing could best be described as minimal. Growing up I was never too fond of reading anything. The books that I enjoyed the most were the ones filled with pictures instead of text. This is especially embarrassing because my older sister was a bookworm. She was the one reading the Harry Potter series as early as elementary school. I, of course, still read classic children’s books ranging from The Very Hungry Caterpillar  to The Berenstain Bears, but those books were nothing to write home about. 8611956520_65fa21be0a_z

 

Reading is always easier when you are interested in the content of the book. As a child I loved dinosaurs. I would always spend my time drawing and learning more about the reptilian giants. This lead to me buying a number of dinosaur-related books. Most of them were written in a factual, informative and formal manner.

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I did not have much exposure to storytelling until Bionicle was released. This was a story-driven toy line that released story serials in an episodic manner on their website. Eventually broadening my horizons, I began to try and read for fun during middle school. I enjoyed the Alex Rider series as well as And Then There Were None. Having been bogged down by the boring school-required novels, it was refreshing to read something suspenseful. 6929939578_6328691eea

I was exposed to the internet early in my childhood. Even before getting my own I was allowed to use my father’s computer. My time on the machine was only limited by when he had to use it. As you can imagine, once I received my own I was using it non-stop. Despite being slow to pick up on social media websites I can say that I have been on Youtube ever since its conception. Bouncing back and forth between a multitude of websites, I not only enjoyed the content but also the comments people made. Behind all of the stupidity, there were some insightful and hilarious remarks to be made. YouTube-logo-seit-Dezember-2013

Wanting to challenge myself, I decided to take a number of AP English courses in high school. Dozens of books and essays later, I had to take the ultimate writing test: my common application. Writing this essay took away my entire summer. I went through five different rough drafts as well as editing the final one several times.  Looking back at my reading and writing history it is easy to see why I was so worried about applying to college. I cannot say with complete honesty that reading and writing are my best friends, but what has changed is that I am excited to build upon those very skills. Months after my submission, I now sit here writing about my experience thinking of what literary challenges lie ahead of me.

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According to my mother, when I was not even two years old she caught me “reading” a book. It was a book she read to me all the time and I was mimicking the sounds as I followed along with the words. Even though I was not technically sounding out words, she claims that moment was when she saw my love of reading begin. When I was three I began actually reading. The first book I read was a Sesame Street book I found in the reading corner at preschool. I clearly remember how excited I was that I could now read myself books and would not have to rely on adults. As time went on I continued reading any book I could get my hands on (except the Magic Treehouse series, I hated those). Second grade came along and it was time to learn how to type. I was excited until we actually started learning and I realized how difficult it was for me. While all of the other students were on levels five and six, I was stuck on level two trying to type the alphabet in two minutes. Fortunately, in the next few years my parents allowed me to have an email account. I communicated with friends this way and it let me practice my typing skills. Around this time I was still reading a ton, but I was reading the same books over and over again. My parents wanted me to explore more than a few books, so I was bribed. I had to read one new book every week for a year and I would receive a laptop. After struggling for a year, I received my first macbook and created an iChat account. iChat improved my typing speed immensely because I felt bad that people had to wait so long for me to respond. Middle school arrived and I decided to join the book club my favorite english teacher was starting. A few months in, we read a book entitled A Mango Shaped Space. The entire story is centered around a girl with synesthesia, a neurological condition in which the senses are cross wired. This was when I realized that to an average human “A” was not red and my name did not look like cotton candy. To this day, a book meant for 12 year olds is one of the books I find most relatable. I began researching synesthesia and trying to find any information I could on it, however it is rather uncommon and there has been very few studies done. After experimenting with research for my own personal use, I was assigned a research paper on Hollywood in the 1920s. This was the first time I used the internet for proper research and when I realized I may be interested in working in the entertainment/media industry. 7134RcBdj5L In 2011 I was at a high school where I was extremely unhappy, so I turned to blogging as an outlet. I wrote about fashion, beauty, makeup, and sometimes baking. I loved having writing as a creative outlet but I also wanted the blog to be more personal, so I created a YouTube channel. YouTube brought more writing into the equation through comments and other interactions, like tweeting, with viewers. This sort of writing was much quicker and less formal than blog posts, but just as enjoyable. Even though I stopped blogging and making videos after a couple of years, the experience made me realize what a great advertising platform the internet can be. Screen Shot 2014-09-18 at 5.01.09 PM In my junior year AP Literature class, we read The Great Gatsby. I had never actually looked forward to reading a novel in high school so I was incredibly excited by this. I wrote multiple papers on the novel and kept finding new things to discuss as I kept rereading it. It is the only book I have ever had fun writing a paper on and continually enjoy rereading without getting bored. As junior year came to a close I was nominated to apply for National Art Honor Society. This was a huge deal because only a few students were nominated each year and even fewer were accepted. I spent many hours perfecting my application so that my photography could be displayed in the coveted NAHS show and after all my hard work, I got accepted into the prestigious society. Also at the end of my junior year, I was assigned a final project in my AP US History course. We had to make a short film of any sort as long as it pertained to US history. My friends and I worked together on writing the script for what we called “The Real Housewives of United States History.” The writing process was interesting because we were taking history as far back as the 15th century and modernizing it with today’s media. Screen Shot 2014-09-17 at 5.07.43 PM My final high school assignment completely encapsulated everything I had learned about media since the beginning of high school. I wrote a research paper explaining how social media has changed advertising and marketing by making the consumer more central to the process. I focused on three industries: new media, sports, and fashion. Months after turning the paper in, I received it in the mail with feedback from my teacher. His feedback said that of all of my writing he had read in the past two years, the portion of my paper on social media marketing in the fashion industry was the strongest. Because I want to work in this field, his comments assured me that all of the media trends I have paid attention to and all of the ways I personally have used media are stepping stones to get me there. Before creating this timeline, I believed that my focus on media had only come about in the past few years, however now I see my entire life has lead up to my still growing interest in new media.

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Timeline Reflection

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The year 2000 was an emerging time for the technological world. As I was growing into myself, I had the opportunity to grow with the media surrounding me. At the beginning of my life I was unknown to the wonders that technology would bring me, but I was surprised at the large sense of independence I found.

 

At the beginning of my life my intake of technology was minimal. The most important stepping-stone into the technological world was my learning to read in junior kindergarten. My increasing confidence in my ability to read books was the basis for an interest in furthering my education as well as fostering a creative mindset from an early age.

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As time progressed, modern day technology was incorporated with educational activities in school. I was exposed to Macintosh computers with educational math games. Similar to the confidence I gained by my increasing ability to read, my skills with math and with this Macintosh desktop enabled me to engage with media giving me a greater confidence and thirst for knowledge.

 

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My next major stepping stone in my soon-to-be media filled life was my first cell phone. My world had opened up due to this extra mode of communication. Suddenly, from talking to my friends first hand, I was able to talk to them without actually being with them.  What followed was the world of MSN, and iChat where the functions of my cell phone were matched and my methods of communication doubled. My cell phone usage has changed over the years but its core use of communicating with those I am not with still remains. This revolutionized the way I communicated from a very early age and is a constant form of communication I use on a daily basis.

 

Lastly, and perhaps the most notable of my media advancements, was my confidence with additional computer programs on my laptop. In 2012 and 2013 I was taught how to use Photoshop and Final Cut Pro to edit my pictures and movies. I was able to reach a previously inaccessible part of technology which enabled my to have more control over my media. I had wanted to learn something so when I had accomplished this I felt comfortable with advanced technology, thus making me feel more in tune with my technological world around me. I used all of my new media knowledge to make a small web series that spoofed the popular reality show The Hills. I created these short videos over a few years and I was extremely proud of the final product. I was able to write, produce, and edit these episodes. This project was a true culmination of my confidence and skills in new media.

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Overall, my journey to discovering new media has helped me gain confidence. Not only in the world of media but creatively, academically, and socially. The creation of this timeline was the method of helping me realize this. I had thought the media I used was because I had enjoyed it, but it was much more. I had started to use a cell phone, laptop, Facebook, social media etc. because it was the ‘norm’ around me but each method of communication and technology had helped me develop in a different way. The world of developing media still excites me today, as I am eager to see what each new piece of technology will teach me.

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Digital Literacy Narrative

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Starting from the first book I ever read to the first social media platform I managed, my life has been greatly affected by technological advancements. After I read my first book, Frog and Toad, I went on to write a book about my travels as a horseback rider in Kindergarten. I remember being extremely proud of my book because it was the first time I had ever conveyed an idea through writing.  Improving my use of language, I took to spelling in order to increase my vocabulary and grammatical abilities. I took delight whenever I spelled a difficult word correctly because it represented a concrete challenge that I could overcome.  With my newfound appreciate for the English language, I started to create more in-depth stories and in second grade one story, Disaster Girl, won an award. Using words like “pandemonium,” “catastrophe,” “calamity,” and “cataclysm,” I channeled my love for words into a more succinct end product- a story.

Once I could express my thoughts on paper, I moved into a more digital world. From learning to type, creating a PowerPoint, and making my first e-mail address I brought in an array of digital tools to convey my ideas through technology. Finally my parents had enough confidence in my technological skills that they allowed me to get my own laptop in seventh grade. The silver shine of the apple brought with it the promise of so much; the world was at my fingertips. Catalyzing the use of online media, my computer superseded everything that came before it. Then came Facebook and Twitter, revolutionizing the way I communicated with the world around me. Once I learned the impact that an online presence could have, I began to question the limits of what one could do with this presence.

Following my Bat Mitzvah in 2009 where I read from the Torah for the first time, I began to feel more connected to the Jewish community around me. Through this connection, I volunteered to work at my temple café on Sundays.  Yael, who, at the time, owned an online bakery, was selling the baked goods at the café. We began chatting and she realized the need for an increased online presence for her business. In February of 2013 I began to work with Baked By Yael on a revitalized social media initiative and by June of 2013 we had raised $74,000 through a social media and public relations campaign that I spearheaded.  I think that my work with Yael taught me the importance of new digital technologies and how they can impact the everyday person.

Through the creation of my digital literacy timeline, I learned how to use another digital tool to convey a point. Much like Facebook, Twitter, or a PowerPoint, my digital literacy timeline conveys a message through a digital platform.

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