Reflection

By changing the medium of my print essay, I ultimately changed the way it would be received. The paper was transformed by taking the flashback dialogue and changing it to pictures of my family and I during the time the fights took place. I also recorded a reading of the conversation in my paper to the slide-show of pictures. This new medium gives the reader the ability to hear me talk as well as see what my family and I looked like ten years ago. The visual and audible aspects of the remediation draws the reader closer to the situation and makes the concept of my paper more ratable. The experience is different as well instead of reading the essay, which could take some one five to 10 minutes; they can watch it in less than 2 minutes. By changing the medium the genre of the project was also changed from print to a multimedia classification. Though the overall medium genre changed the light-heartedness and funny aspect of my story still remained.

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The Reflection

Remediation

This is the remediation portion of my Digital Literacy Narrative. I recreated my story by reading it to old pictures. This was a different experiences for me, but I think the final product turned out okay.


My First Youtube Video

Print Essay

There we were again, the three of us, my brother, sister and I, all crying, yelling, and fighting with each other. There were probably several different reasons for all the commotion, but the main one is definitely over who was going to use the computer first. We were all in our own rooms. My brother, Max, in his room and my sister, Lucy, and I in the one we shared. Lucy and I almost always took each other’s side. Us girls had to stick together against our bully of a brother. One of us had already called our dad crying.

“Norfolk Public Schools Communication Skills Office, this is Cathy how can I help you?” Our dad’s secretary would answer.

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