Literacy for the iGeneration

Hi everyone, here is a summary of what we did in class.

Tuesday, Sept 4th
*First the professor introduced herself and than we got to know each other better.
*After that, we wrote introductory letters to bilingual students at Monroe High School.
*We were told about the professor’s expectations about our personal and class blogs and how they were going to be a type of portfolio for us. The professor is going to use wiki in place of blackboard to post homework assignements.
*After that was a class discussion along the lines of effective communication and teamwork.

Thursday, Sept 6th
*We started off class by going over the syllabus, just a reminder everyone, personal blog entries are due by 8 am every Tuesday.
*We talked about how literacy is the backbone of course content
*Later, we practiced a literacy skill that the professor modeled for us. It involved asking questions of the text which was part of the Striving Readers Act
*Towards the end of class, we came up with our own working definitions of literacy.

I think that covers what we did. Hope you enjoyed this summary, happy blogging.