Community Literacy

What is a community?

What is literacy?

What is Community Literacy?

How do we obtain such information?

In just viewing the words that I have typed above, I am sure that I can come up with serveral answers to my questions. What is community?: To me community is a group of people that share most of the same ideas regarding the physical, emotional, mental well beings of other within the same area. This would include a radius of about 10 or 15 blocks of your home or the many apartments in your apartment building or dorm. What is literacy?: I believe that literacy is the combined effort to understand and reiterate information recieved. So what does that mean to community literacy. To me this means that a group of diverse individual take stock in helping and providing information to each other and outside sources and keeping a records of how to continue to help their fellow man. To continue community literacy you must not be afraid to give and receive information and be able to share that information.In my opinion to obtain community literacy, you yourself must be abreast of your neigborhood news, city news, school news, state news and global news, because if you don't have that information you could be left out of the loop. Also how can you promote community literacy if you don't care about your community? Libraries, town meeting, voting..............

Pancakes and Technology

As she stands in the kitchen with a black house dress trimmed with flowers on the bottom, I spin around in my chair. She turns around to pick up her pancake batter and pours a bit in the hot skillet.Mom….I want to ask you a few questions, I want to know your opinion about technology.In her usual response honey, I am sure you already know the answers to those questions. I know she has an opinion to she finally sits down to talk with me about technology. I like the kitchen, not only because I like to eat but it is a haven for human interaction. The first question asked her was compared to the technological advances of your day and the technological advances of today, what’s the worst and the best technology…in your day and today?In a very thoughtful voice she repliedwell, in my day the “block sized cell phone was a good piece of technology. It was just nice to know that you didn’t have to wait to call someone. But it is a double edge sword because no one talks to each other anymore. What happened to actually hearing some ones voice. Now it is all about text messaging and waiting. In my day I hated the answering machine. I think that if I call you and speak to you that means you heard what I need to say, but if I leave a message then unless you call me back I don’t know if you got my message or you are trying to ignore me. Ok, mom if that is true then what do you do if you are on the other end. That’s the thing…sometimes you just don’t want to talk or be found, like I said it is double edged. But I will say I do love the computer. It is quick and easy. It is good and strange at the same time that so many people are using and exploring the computer. The second question I asked was how do you use your favorite technology in your everyday use? Well like I said I love that computer. It helps me do my secretary job so much easier. And because I learned on typewriters the quickness of every thing is fascinating. As you notice the world changing do you think it will go to total technology or stay divide between technology run and man run. There will always be a divide. The man created the machine, man has to watch the machine and man has to fix that machine when it is broken so I don’t think the world can or will be total technology. Mom as I watched you come into your technological soundness you seem to have moved very effortlessly, with the right education do you think other people like yourself can transition smoothly? It is not just the education; it is all about the want to. If you don’t want to learn you can’t learn. Is there anything that you want to say about technology? I like it and I deal with it. Just like this stove it went from a fire pit to a wood burning to gas and electric but they all make good pancakes, it is all about convenience

AS I WAS READING MY PEER REVIEWS I NOTICED THAT IN MY MIND THAT THE CONNECTION OF  OLDER GENERATIONS AND TECHNOLOGY WAS CLEARLY EVIDENT-THE INTERVIEW DID NOT TIES INTO THE ROUGH DRAFT. IT IS MY GOAL TO CLARIFY THAT TRANSITION.

I D E A

Create a Wiki friendly website for a bowling league.

P R O P O S A L

I propose a website for the St. Petersburg Bowling Senate because it is extremely important that the league be connected to other senates and a way to connect league members.

http://www.tnbainc.org/ (click here for more info on TNBA)

B U S I N E S S P L A N

1. Make sure that we find a website provider that is (free).

2.Make sure that space is user friendly

R O U G H D R A F T

After conducting an interview with my mother who is the senate secretary of the St. Pete senate, I learned that our league has not moved into teh technology age. After learning this I felt that the leage was doing an injustice to itself. knowing this I felt that as the older generations leave the league and it moves to a younger generation it will be behind the times and ris loosing the younger crowd due to lock of technology.

The St. Pete Senate spawns from The National Bowling Association formely known as The Negro Bowling Association. Since we are on the dawn of change as African Americans we need to be on the forefront of technology as other races. I find that this(website) is a good way to explore, expand, and exchange information. This will be a way to introduce the older generations to the younger generations. With this new found educationof technology and its many uses I think that it is my obligation to bring it to the league and others.

H O P E, D R E A M S, AND A S P I R A T I O N S

My hope for this project is that I teach somone the goods of technology, the few bumps that may occur, and how beneficial technology is.

My dream for this project is that we are a good example to other senates, also to each other, as African Americans we need to prove we are getting better. Also my dream is that this project helps me figure out what I want to do for the rest of my life.

My aspiration after this project is to have a better understanding of technology and my life in general. I want to somehow be better...

Project Progress Comments

Felesha's Final Draft

Grading Module

Felesha's Memo

Children Savers Inc

2nd version of childrens inc 

Felesha Final Project and Work Progress

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