During the passed a couple of weeks' of hard work, finally I have finished the literacy assignment, which includes five blog entry and a group map. In this self-reflection essay, I would like to give a brief recall of how works has been done as well as explain my role in our group map creation.
Remember at the first time I heard about the assignment, I completely had no idea what I should write about. The word "literacy" was unfamiliar to me, and it seems that at the level we are talking about, it even has a wider meaning besides "the ability to read and write". I was not sure what is the exactly meaning of it, thus could not decide what literacy I should write about. To solve the problem, I went to Google and Wikipedia. Typing in the word ''literacy", it gave me the idea that the modern literacy is no longer confined to "read" and "write", everything associate to helping us "understand" and "communicate" with outside world can be treated as a literacy. There is also a list of example, such as computer literacy, multimedia literacy, etc. This search helped me a lot when brain storming my own literacy encountered in life, and finally I have choose computer, emotion, multimedia, music and reading as my own life literacy in my blog entry writing.
As for our group map creation, the first thing we considered was what should be on the map. Since the concept of literacy is so broad, it is hard to decide what aspect we should use. so I suggested that we may first draw our own literacy map individually. Since each one has different assets and there also must be some common point between us, we may then get our individual map connected to draw a bigger one by showing these common point as well as differences. However, when this idea went to practical operation, problem comes out. For one may list general literacy such as "sports", "music" while others may concentrate in the extreme detail in a specific field, we find it was difficult to combine each person's map. To solve this problem, we write a temple in the Lab class indicating what type we are about to use, thus every one should follow this type when thinking of his or her own map.
The next problem coming to us is the how to draw the map. I have done a research on internet trying to find some good map temple we could use. The search proved difficult, for the temple I found was either too complex or too simple. I then remembered the map of Disney world which I was traveling during spring break. There are five big theme parks in magic kingdom, each one show its own characters and also have connection with others. Isn't it a good temple we could use? The idea then got totally approved by other members in my group.
In one of the lab classes, we collected each one's individual map and made a comparison to them. After overall considered the landscape of the Disney world map, we finally decided which literacy we should indicate in the map and where to mark them in the map. I am the person in charged of the final drawing of the map. It was not hard, since the blueprint has already in my mind after the group discussion.
During this assignment working, not only have I got a deeper understanding of literacy, but also learned the importance of team work. It is by the contribution of each group members that we finally finish this map assignment!
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