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Diversified Expression
I believe that these new methods will bring diversified expression to the classroom. No longer will writing seem to be a nerdy English teacher form of torture, but something that students see valuable to them. One teacher who experimented in this field, having students create power points in an illuminated text fashion for their own poetry. A student from her class wrote in a reflection of the project,
"It makes it more real. Like, you could read [the poem] and it'd be 'Okay, this person's feeling this, and like that.' But in powerpoint, when you see the pictures and the movement...[i]t actually shows you what's going on, and it makes you feel, even if you don't realize it..It's kind of like school...so many things collide together to learn one thing. And I guess that's what the music and the colors and the stuff do" (Bailey 224).
What this student has begun to see is how much text is full of dimension. New literacies showed her how text can come alive and create new meaning when used in various mediums. The relationship between the text and vehicle was successful in making it "more real." This is what we as English teachers should always strive to build with our students: writing that is real.
Diversified Expression
I believe that these new methods will bring diversified expression to the classroom. No longer will writing seem to be a nerdy English teacher form of torture, but something that students see valuable to them. One teacher who experimented in this field, having students create power points in an illuminated text fashion for their own poetry. A student from her class wrote in a reflection of the project,
"It makes it more real. Like, you could read [the poem] and it'd be 'Okay, this person's feeling this, and like that.' But in powerpoint, when you see the pictures and the movement...[i]t actually shows you what's going on, and it makes you feel, even if you don't realize it..It's kind of like school...so many things collide together to learn one thing. And I guess that's what the music and the colors and the stuff do" (Bailey 224).
What this student has begun to see is how much text is full of dimension. New literacies showed her how text can come alive and create new meaning when used in various mediums. The relationship between the text and vehicle was successful in making it "more real." This is what we as English teachers should always strive to build with our students: writing that is real.