My
new literacy project is creating a website using Weebly about emotional
literacy with Cristyn. As I began
working with my partner on our Weebly website, I discover that we needed to go
through many different layouts and designs before we could move on to the
actual content. Finding a layout
to fit the topics we wanted to cover took some time, but we were able to find a
format where the information was easily accessible. As soon as we found a fitting lay out, we needed to do
research and find out exactly what we wanted to talk about in our website. We went and read in-depth the various
readings given to us on the wiki about emotional literacy. We found a great amount of information
that would aid us in to finding the definitions of literacy and emotional
literacy. When dealing with
emotional literacy, I found many definitions that had many components.
From
what I read on many websites, I found that in the simplest terms possible,
emotional literacy is being able to recognize, monitor, and express one’s
emotions while being able to empathize with other’s emotions. As I began reading deeper, I kept
thinking of different issues I could talk about in the website. Questions kept popping in my head
through the various readings, such as:
How
do children deal with literature that is emotional?
When
do children get exposed to emotional literacy?
As
teachers, what should we include in the classroom to get students to understand
the concept of emotional literacy?
We
decided to split these types of questions into more general subjects, so we
could include as much information about each topic as possible. Our subjects (tabs) that we have
included on our website are the definitions and different aspects of emotional
literacy and literacy, how emotional literacy can be used in the classroom, the
importance of emotional literacy, emotional intelligence, resources, and a pop
quiz for people who have read our web site and want to test what they know
about emotional literacy. We
briefly began looking for material for each topic and discovered that we were
going to need to be really detailed in each section on our website. In order to do so, we have planned to
use scholarly articles, YouTube videos, websites, and other sources in order to
be as successful as we possibly can be on this website.
Thus
far, reading and writing have been our main sources of ways we have explored
this kind of new technology.
Figuring out what types of information and topics to include on our web
site is going to be a challenge, because we do not want people to get lost in
the information nor do we want people not to have enough to read about. Watching movies for information has
been a new skill that I have not really used and appreciated in the past. While watching videos online, I noticed
that I have been paying more attention to exactly what the speaker may be
saying in order to be as accurate as possible with this project as possible. I really enjoy discovering a new
technology and being able to research a new topic. While learning about both of these different topics, I
thought including this kind of activity in the classroom would be very
beneficial to students. If
we worked on a web site as a class, I think students would be able to learn how
to use an online tool, while also discover methods for researching a certain
topic. Both of these topics are
very important to the growth of students and each student could benefit to a
great extent through this type of activity.
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