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Multimodal Literacy Narrative (by Scannell), 2)Digital Literacy Narrative (by Andfull), 3) Words, Magic (by Truaman), 4) Digital Litearcy Narrative (by Peyton), and 5)Literacy Narrative (by Wooten)


View the literacy narratives listed above and evaluate them (what do you like about them? what don't you like? why?). What criteria do you think we should use for evaluating these types of texts?


In the first one I liked the changes between the interviews, the stills, and the other clips, but the narrative didn't flow very well, and ran on about all her accomplishments. The introduction didn't really play in to being a thesis statement for the rest of the video, or any relevant introduction.


For the second, I felt the visual animation was interesting, but the graphics were poor, and the narrative was not formulated or spoken very well, and didn't seem to have a good point. Much like in the last narrative, I did enjoy the explanation of why the story was relevant to the author, but I think the childhood stories should be short.


In the third, the story was well told, and again the about the author (in this case the behind the scenes) was interesting. I do think the video could have benefited from transitions between his actual interview and some different visuals.


In the fourth, the fuzziness of the phone screen was incredibly frustrating, and took away from the story - the beginning and middle was too drawn out, but the conclusion was too short, and unfulfilling. 


In the fifth, the point of the story was sort of lost on me, and the lack of background of the author made the narrative uninteresting. The transitions between different visuals, and how the story was told with text and stills was interesting and successful in my opinion, but the classical music was an odd choice for background noise. 


I think what is important is to have a solid story within the narrative that flows well, interesting visuals, audio and movement, as well as something to 'take away' from it. If the narrative doesn't have a base to stand on, the majority of the content will not succeed.


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Analyzing the Analyses (Blog Post 5)

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Read the 3-students-whose-names-come-after-you-on-the-web-portal's Project 2s. If someone doesn't have their project done, skip ahead to the next person on the list. Do the following: Summarize what you learned about what makes an effective text in what situations and why. Refer specifically (cite them!) to the projects you looked at. Then, quickly explore every student's Project 2 (no need to read in depth, just poke around). Describe which web text is your favorite and why.

On Austin Robertson's page he analyzes what makes an effective wiki for certain games, including Minecraft, World of Warcraft, EVE Online, Star Fox, and Myst. To sum up his analysis, what makes a good game wiki is for the page to be easily navigable, in relatively the same format as other wikis, and to provide information both for newcomers and people who know the game and it's lingo very well.

For Kelsey Rock's page, I found there to be no definite answer to what makes the text for grilling pizza successful, but from her analysis I can conclude some things. For one, the page must be well organize from left to right, addressing the supposed audience of whoever wants to learn how to grill pizza. Secondly, the information itself must be clear and concise for ease of education.

On Adam Ward's page, he clearly defines what makes an effective text on how to build an acoustic guitar. He insists that the page/video must be specific and clear in instruction, have lots of visuals, and include as many resources as possible to make the process as smooth and clear as possible. 

My two favorite pages out of all of them are Cassie April's and Lauren Chavez's website. Their sites are not only clean, appealing, and navigable, but also address every element thoroughly and have a conclusion, or wrap up for the analysis.

Let's just say, after reading all these pages I feel like mine failed big time in addressing certain elements. Even though I feel like I could have done more, I didn't, and I'm tired of having so much work this week. Good job everyone.


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