Paper Idea: Students create a digital literacy narrative on Storify
Again, the paper idea comes from FSU's FYW site (the Teacher's Guide to First Year Comp -
Paper One: Digital-Media History Narrative, 4â6 pages
For the Instructor:
The cultural media history narrative should be a way for students to explore their own varied experiences with visio-cultural âtexts and the ways in which these texts âinstructed them on which behaviors and values their culture would expect, tolerate, or condemn. The parameters for the paper are necessarily broad because you want to encourage students to examine the many factors that together have influenced who theyâve become and want to be.
Prompt for the Students:
This assignment is a multimedia version of a literary history with an emphasis on media such as computer games, online video, social networking programs, and other web content. The limits of our experience are the limits of our world, but in a technological age where Wii games engage millions and YouTube videos sway voters, that experience might be indirectly broad. Reexamine your Digital-Media History, identifying and exploring some of the first and most influential digital texts you ever encountered. Did these texts show you much of what your culture would expect, tolerate, or condemn in your behavior? Examining these games, videos, personal sites, even ads, lets us examine, even define, ourselves to some extent. How do you understand the world youâve come to know? How has this digital progression fostered or restricted your knowledge of the world? Consider your digital culture today: how has it evolved from the one you knew when you were young?
Revisit and examine the visio-cultural âtextsâ (i.e. sitcoms, cartoons, movies, music/music videos, even ads) that have influenced or shaped your character. Analyze the ways in which these texts appealed to you (Which tools of language, aesthetic, plot, or image did they use?). Think about how these texts have fostered your understanding of the world as youâve come to know it. Also, examine how your most influential texts have changed over time and how these changes have influenced your personality and your knowledge of the world.
Here are some possible ways of approaching paper one:
ď§ You might create a movies narrative
discoholicmusic
romaincrisis
annaxmalina
turnnoffyourmind
gummygunk
snowghoul
titsay
origamiaround
