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Everybody has a literacy story EVENT: Call for participants
A friend of mine is inviting schools across the country to host an ""Everybody has a literacy story...tell us yours!" event sometime this Spring, and as part of the group that is organizing the event for Kent State, I would like to extend the invitation to you as well.
The local events are designed to supplement the "Every CCCC Member has a Literacy Story" booth and project that we are undertaking for the very first time in San Francisco this March (see http://everyccccmember.osu.edu/ for information about the CCCC event). The local campus events can be teeny (like in one class), medium (like a literacy storytelling day in a Writing Center or a Department), or huge (like a literacy storytelling day on a whole campus). They can be short (for an hour) or long (for an entire day)--the idea is to multiply the effort of collecting these stories and build a marvelous collective resource for our profession.
During an "Everybody Has a Literacy Story...Tell Us Yours!" Day, you (or your Writing Center, or a graduate student, etc.) could collect literacy stories from
• anyone (students, faculty, staff members, community members)
• in any form: writing/print (.rtf), video (,mov, .MP4), audio (.MP3, .WAV), and images (.jpg)
• in any location (writing center, library, classroom, coffee shop).
And these literacy stories can be any length and about any topic (see attached) that has to do with reading, writing, and composing (or the teaching of reading, writing, and composing):
• Literacy narratives can be sad or happy, poignant or funny, informative or incidental.
• Literacy narratives can be about times when you tried and succeeded or tried and failed; someone who gave you a chance or took one away; situations when someone taught you how to do something or when you taught someone else; churches and schools, contests and performances, plays and public presentations
• Literacy narratives can be about composing letters, Facebook pages, song lyrics,' zines, blogs, maps, essays in school—anything at all that you compose.
• Literacy narratives can include digitized photographs of letters or diaries or report cards, snapshots of family and friends, drawings and poems.
All you have to do is collect the stories (and the signed permission forms) and send them to us. We will upload the stories to the national Digital Archives of Literacy Narratives (DALN), where they will be made publicly available for eveyone's use" scholars, teachers, students, librarians, writing center staff members. Stories can be uploaded with or without people's names--so participants' stories can remain anonymous if they wish. All stories contributed to the DALN are voluntary submissions and must be accompanied by the author's consent.
If you prefer, you can have people upload their stories themselves at .
To assist in this process, we would send you
• a sample story,
• some suggestions about how to such an event,
• some prompts to give people an idea of what kinds of stories they could tell,
• a set of "informed consent" forms for folks to fill out so that we have permission to post their stories in the Digital Archives of Literacy Narratives.
So, If you folks are interested in participating in this project, just send me an e-mail reply to this message and I'll send you a packet of materials you can use and modify in any way you'd like.
Please, please consider helping us out on this one--the collection of literacy stories we hope to assemble will be a marvelous resource for classes and scholars and the public, a terrific historical record, and a rich source of information about literacy practices and values.
Besides, I can guarantee that an "Everybody Has a Literacy Story...Tell Us Yours!" Day would be great fun to host--meeting people through their stories is always a marvelous adventure for any teacher!
IF you are interested in participating with us at Kent State, let me know--or you can contact Cindy Selfe from OSU who is coordinating he entire event.
The local events are designed to supplement the "Every CCCC Member has a Literacy Story" booth and project that we are undertaking for the very first time in San Francisco this March (see http://everyccccmember.osu.edu/ for information about the CCCC event). The local campus events can be teeny (like in one class), medium (like a literacy storytelling day in a Writing Center or a Department), or huge (like a literacy storytelling day on a whole campus). They can be short (for an hour) or long (for an entire day)--the idea is to multiply the effort of collecting these stories and build a marvelous collective resource for our profession.
During an "Everybody Has a Literacy Story...Tell Us Yours!" Day, you (or your Writing Center, or a graduate student, etc.) could collect literacy stories from
• anyone (students, faculty, staff members, community members)
• in any form: writing/print (.rtf), video (,mov, .MP4), audio (.MP3, .WAV), and images (.jpg)
• in any location (writing center, library, classroom, coffee shop).
And these literacy stories can be any length and about any topic (see attached) that has to do with reading, writing, and composing (or the teaching of reading, writing, and composing):
• Literacy narratives can be sad or happy, poignant or funny, informative or incidental.
• Literacy narratives can be about times when you tried and succeeded or tried and failed; someone who gave you a chance or took one away; situations when someone taught you how to do something or when you taught someone else; churches and schools, contests and performances, plays and public presentations
• Literacy narratives can be about composing letters, Facebook pages, song lyrics,' zines, blogs, maps, essays in school—anything at all that you compose.
• Literacy narratives can include digitized photographs of letters or diaries or report cards, snapshots of family and friends, drawings and poems.
All you have to do is collect the stories (and the signed permission forms) and send them to us. We will upload the stories to the national Digital Archives of Literacy Narratives (DALN), where they will be made publicly available for eveyone's use" scholars, teachers, students, librarians, writing center staff members. Stories can be uploaded with or without people's names--so participants' stories can remain anonymous if they wish. All stories contributed to the DALN are voluntary submissions and must be accompanied by the author's consent.
If you prefer, you can have people upload their stories themselves at .
To assist in this process, we would send you
• a sample story,
• some suggestions about how to such an event,
• some prompts to give people an idea of what kinds of stories they could tell,
• a set of "informed consent" forms for folks to fill out so that we have permission to post their stories in the Digital Archives of Literacy Narratives.
So, If you folks are interested in participating in this project, just send me an e-mail reply to this message and I'll send you a packet of materials you can use and modify in any way you'd like.
Please, please consider helping us out on this one--the collection of literacy stories we hope to assemble will be a marvelous resource for classes and scholars and the public, a terrific historical record, and a rich source of information about literacy practices and values.
Besides, I can guarantee that an "Everybody Has a Literacy Story...Tell Us Yours!" Day would be great fun to host--meeting people through their stories is always a marvelous adventure for any teacher!
IF you are interested in participating with us at Kent State, let me know--or you can contact Cindy Selfe from OSU who is coordinating he entire event.
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Hi Mary
Thanks for sharing this wonderful project with our Flat Classrooms group. Is this open to international participants as well?
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