Claire: Just Google It

For me I think digital literacy sponsorship comes from ourselves. I find it really rare that I have a friend ask me how to use Twitter or any social medias. It seems more of a self-taught lesson. Like open the app and fiddle around with it until you know what you’re doing. But worst comes to worst and you can just google how to do it. The other side of the self-taught agreement is if you are on twitter, you are digitally observing everyone else using it, so in a way they are sponsoring you. I can see both sides of it, but it depends on what you are learning or doing digitally that defines who the sponsor is.

My most recent new digital literacy would be Google Docs. I have never used it before and its used all over campus. It’s hard simply because it is completely foreign to my, but after I had to use it for the first time I knew what I was doing. And a few of the students in the English 30 class I observe in asked me how to upload documents and how to get into Google Docs, which was funny to me because I hardly figured it out for myself.

As far as a non-digital literacy goes, it would definitely be navigating my way around Chico. Clearly I am new in town, so sometimes it’s a struggle to find how to get places and then there’s a bunch of one way street (which I despise). The easiest part is that the streets are just numbers, but when I walk the other way when they have real names, I get lost. The coolest thing someone told me was that some spell out CHICO, so that was super helpful and I can successfully navigate that portion and I’m continually getting better at the rest.