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 * Roles:** Group Leader, Archivist 1, Archivist 2, Wordle-er,Timekeeper, Idea Contributors

//Preface:// After freewriting facilitated by Dr. Young in seminar 2, each group member should have sent their Individual Literacy Definitions & New Literacy Definitions to the Group Leader for your group. Also, your group should have created a collaborative definition for New Literacies. This too should have been saved by your Group Leader.

With this information in hand, we will proceed as follows with seminar 3 as follows:

1. Group Leader should review directions and make sure everyone has a role (perhaps more than one role depending on numbers). 2. Group Leader should pull up Word doc with definitions and sign into the wiki. To prevent overwriting on the wiki, the group should work from the Group Leader's laptop. 3. Archivist 1should review the individual definitions with the group and then copy and paste them in the appropriate categories below. Make sure names are included with the definitions. Post, click save, and then edit again. 4. Archivist 2 should review the collaborative definition with the group, make any revisions, and then copy and paste it in the appropriate section below. Post and then click save. 5. Next, the Wordle-er should open a new tab on the browser to create a New Literacies Wordle ([|http://wordle.net]) by copying and pasting your group definition into the tool. Include your group # in the title to distinguish your particular New Literacies Wordle (e.g., DV-F10 Group 1 New Lit Definition). 6. Once your Wordle is created, I encourage you to copy the URL and save it on your wiki page. 7. Next, copy the embed code from your Wordle page. Then click on the Widget button from the edit menu on your group's wiki page. From the menu on the left of the Widget options, choose the Other HTML option and paste in the embed code from your Wordle page into the text box. Click save and you will see a box that says Other Widget. Click save to save the wiki page, and you should see the Wordle you created! 8. Should you want to make the Wordle image appear larger, click on the Edit tab for your wiki page, then click on the Other Widget box -- this will give you an alignment editing box where you can increase the size by clicking the + button. Save your changes. [Note: The image can also be saved as a jpg and then inserted as an image file.] 9. At this point, we will begin the next step -- planning a short digital video, so let Dr. Y know when you're ready!
 * Directions:**


 * OUR INDIVIDUAL INITIAL LITERACY DEFINITIONS**
 * **Jessie**: Traditionally, the word literacy would be referred to as the ability to read and comprehend a text, bringing about new knowledge or understanding of a piece of writing or literature.
 * **Jesse**: Literacy is the ability to read, comprehend, and analyze information. A person that is literate has the ability to read and then use the information he or she read in order to apply it to a real world situation.
 * **Morgan**: Literacy is being able to understand a language and replicating the language. But, to be literate in different things, let’s see, like auto mechanics. That is different than being literate in a language. So, literacy can change based on the “language” of a certain thing. When people say literacy as it refers to a spoken language, I think they are meaning the ability to understand. Can you read this story and tell someone what it says?
 * **Emily**: The word literacy means being able to understand what is being read on the page and apply that to one's every day life. Literacy goes beyond simply reading a book, it involves everything to magazines to technology and involves what we create. It means taking what we see all around us and making it applicable to our individual selves.
 * **Ron**: Literacy to me is the ability to create, sustain, analyze, and receive language from other people. Being literate means that you can read and write but also communicate ideas and share knowledge.


 * OUR INDIVIDUAL DEFINITIONS OF NEW LITERACIES**
 * **Jessie**: Today, however, because of constantly emerging technologies, it is important to keep the public and our students updated on basic knowledge of how to effectively use and implement technology within the classroom. Just as reading literacy is an important and empowering technique, technological literacy is equally important in our fast-paced society. New literacies can be defined as be ability to effectively use technology.
 * **Jesse**: In terms of new literacies, I think the ability to use technology is very important for literacy. The new literacy that we will be talking about is being technologically literate. Being able to use the Internet, find the information that you desire, using a new type of computer that isn’t even a Mac or a PC and being able to navigate successfully with the new technology.
 * **Morgan**: Perhaps the new literacy aspect deals with more than just understanding a language and replicating it with understanding. I think there is a technological aspect that Dr. Young is hinting at here. Perhaps being technologically literate is a huge thing now. It is the technology age so there is more to know about and learn about than before. Being able to traverse the web and satellite world is a new stage in literacy.
 * **Emily**: Literacy is evolving as our society evolves. It is now including technology in a way that did not exist 10, 20, or 30 years ago. Now being literate involves being about to read and access information online as well as post, create, and utilize technology to create your own literature.
 * **Ron**: Newer forms of being literate include, but are not limited to: surfing the Internet, blogging, eBooking, creating online profiles, texting, video chatting, Skypeing, twittering, and more. New literacy as its basic meaning means to be able to take technology and use it to share knowledge in the world today.


 * OUR COLLABORATIVE DEFINITION OF NEW LITERACIES**
 * New literacy is an extension of old literacy as it contains, but is not limited to, the intricate use of ever-changing technology both in the personal world and in the societal context.


 * OUR NEW LITERACIES WORDLE URL:**

http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/2405453/DV-F10_Group_1


 * OUR NEW LITERACIES WORDLE:**

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 * OUR INITITIAL NEW LITERACIES DV SOUND BITE:**

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