Blog 8

The workshop presentations have been great ways for me to gain ideas about ways I can incorporate different forms of literacy into my future classroom practices. I really enjoyed the Gaming and Literacy presentation because it incorporated a little bit of identity into it as well (my group is Literacy and Adolescent Identity). For example, I am a pop culture junky so obviously I rocked that table, but at the video game table I completely failed. Allowing students to choose which table their interests are is awesome because they get to incorporate the things they do for entertainment in a way that teaches them something in the end. I thought it was really cool how everyone from our group was sent to different tables to win different things and that each table had a different subject.

I also really enjoyed the Hip-Hop and Literacy presentation because I think it is applicable to Junior High and High School English classes where different literary devices are being taught. Allowing students to bring in songs, whether it is Hip-Hop or any other genre, is a great way to teach students about the different literary devices in a way that allows them to choose a song that they love and enjoy while also teaching them what we need to. I also think it would be interesting as a teacher to find out what our students are listening to. During the presentation we had to make our own little rap which I thought was really fun because we got to use a digital resource. This is something I would definitely love to incorporate into the classroom.