Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Welcome and a literacy moment

So I'm keeping a blog. I tend to do this alot. In fact, I usually blog on a different site, under a different name--that's my personal blog. I keep my school stuff here, on blogger.com and I really like how it lets me build community among my students. One thing that I vowed to do this semester was to blog alongside my students. So I'm doing the blog assignments I've given them. And I'm sticking to the due dates as well.


I believe that literacy moments are constantly happening and whenver I try to pick just one, I always have a hard time doing so. There are so many different things that someone can be literate it. I think for me, a recent literacy moment was when I started to play the harp again. I went to the Harps International showroom in Brooklyn and as L. showed me different harps, it was like my fingers remembered how to play. It's been nearly ten years since I sat down at an instrument like this. That afternoon I decided, if my fingers could remember the basics, surely, with practice I'd be able to improve. Thus, I returned to the harp showroom two days later and I picked up my harp. She is a Camac Korrigan and I named her Niente. When I watch other more experienced harpers play, I don't feel at all literate, but I guess I am, because I can sit down, play a couple of tunes and I understand the musicality of playing the harp---but I'd still like to gain a better literacy at it.
try to practice for a few hours every day to quicken my literacy, but sadly, I don't always have time to practice with everything else I try to do.

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Welcome to my Blog

This blog is one that I've created to communicate with my English 101 students at LaGuardia Community College during our semester-long exploration of literacy and technology.