For January 22

Be sure to attend the Perloff presentation on Friday at 3:00.

Bring to class versions of all activities engaged in below.

Read the following:

1. Pratt http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/~stripp/2504/pratt.html

2. Dibbell http://www.juliandibbell.com/texts/alamodem.html

3. Pandey ereserves

4. Selfe and Hawisher, Introduction and Conclusion to Literate Lives ereserves.

5. Barrios, “Blogs: A Primer” http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/english/cconline/barrios3/barrios3.htm

6. Perloff ereserves

Do the following:

1. Sign on to Myspace. Prepare to discuss your “self” as it appears in that space and your feelings about it (myspace.com). One entry in your literacy narrative file will include what you know how to do and what you don’t know how to do in myspace.com. How did you approach this task. Bring all other heard or experienced ideas about what it means to be a presence on myspace.
2. As you read through the above articles on literacy narratives and autoethnographies, begin to define each genre: Pandey is a good example of a person who makes some pretty standard “moves” and who references key concepts in digital literacy studies. So note carefully what he chooses to include in his narrative and what he argues regarding “literacy.” This doesn’t mean disregard what other authors write!
3. Think about where/how we should do our blogs. There’s a blog space available on myspace, in WebCT, in open source. Come prepared to advise or weigh in. We’ll be using the blogs for reading journals and “connection” and interaction—one of or experiential activities.
4. Examine carefully the bibliographies for each article (I forgot to copy on the Selfe and Hawisher but will do so). Begin your list of books/articles/webplaces you may wish to consult.
5. Google the authors you’re reading. Note who they are, what they work on, what institutional affiliations they own.
6. Continue responding to the question we began in class about your literate life.