Emily Augustyniak
Lauren Rinke
WRT 150
October 12, 2012
Process
Memo
As
I sat down and began my literacy time line I started thinking about when I was
little and why I would read. It was pretty easy for me to remember because I
started reading at such a young age. I was always read to as a child and have
many memories of reading. I had never realized that I was surrounded with all
that reading background as a child.
Throughout my literacy time line I noticed a theme of
American Girls. I was obsessed with American Girls as a child and collected the
dolls, books and doll accessories. Since I noticed that theme I went with that
to focus my narrative literacy on. Since that was my main theme it was not hard
to determine that was what I was going to use for my narrative literacy. By
creating the time line I was able to reminisce all the good memories I had of
reading as a child.
Since I had my theme for my narrative literacy I was able
to just use that area of focus for my written narrative. I did not have to
think of an idea since I already had planned on using my love for American
Girls as a child. I organized it chronologically of how I came to love American
Girls. It was pretty much right when I was introduced to them I wanted to
continue reading the book and then start collecting the dolls also. It was not
difficult to organize my thoughts at all because it was easy to remember since
I was at an age where I could comprehend all of that and I was able to just
chronologically write everything down for my written narrative.
After the peer review I was able to chance some word tenses.
My two peer reviewers were a great help in telling me what I should keep and
what I should change in my paper. Yes, my mind I was already thinking how I
could change the written narrative into an effective Animoto video.
My peers picked out great sentences for me to use in my
Animoto video. Most all of the sentences they picked out were the ones I actually
used also. It was extremely difficult
and frustrating to get my sentences to fit in the Animoto characters limit. My
strategy was to take the most important words or phrases from the sentence and
try to reduce them to make a coherent phrase. It was very difficult at times
and felt like none of it would make sense to a viewer who had not read my
paper. I had some pictures that fit perfectly with the phrases of text that I
used so I placed those ones with each other and the phrases I did not have a picture
for I added a picture of one that I thought would be best and make the most
sense. I did not use any pictures from the web. They were all pictures that I
had taken or my parents had taken of me when I was a child. Some of the
pictures were even more recent when I visited the stores in New York and at
Mall of America. I wanted to put a song from an American Girl CD I had, but I
was unable to upload it and it play so I just used one that was already on
Animoto and made sense with my video. The song was gentle to listen to so it
went along perfectly with the video.
Overall I enjoyed the project and though it was a very
clever and cute project to do. All of the requirement were easy to meet and
capable to do. This should be a project all WRT 150 professors require of their
students to complete.
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