For my first experience with blogging for a class, I had to read "Situated Literacies" by Barton and Hamilton. Barton and Hamilton express what literacy practices mean to them, and it allowed me to personally think about what literacy practices are. Barton and Hamilton provide a pretty straight forward explanation in terms of what a literacy practice is when they state that, "in the simplest sense it is what people do with literacy (reading and writing)/ the general cultural ways of utilizing written language." (7) I agree with Barton and Hamilton that literacy practices are based upon individuals beliefs, attitudes, values etc. One literacy practice that I thought of in my own life is taking my own personal beliefs and writing it for a story for class here at Rowan. What I have never taken into account until reading this article was that literacy is a form of a social practice, which is incredibility significant as well. It is quite amazing to me that when literacy is seen as a social practice, it "connects people with one another" (8)Literacy as a social practice are driven together by people, and this is where literacy interlocks with how we communicate and relate with others in our daily lives in multiple forms of domains in life. One social practice of sharing a recipe for example in my house happens constantly with me and my sister because she loves to cook. From learning more about technology in this class, I feel that this can also help individuals to communicate and interact with one another in a social, literacy form too. Literacy is not just based upon reading/writing, but also about the interaction of communicating, reaching, and educating others who have a common goal in life. This ties into how discourse communities and how they personally shape literacy practices in their own social way. As discussed by Barton and Hamilton, a discourse community is, "groups of people held together by characteristics ways of talking, acting, valuing, interrupting, and using written language." (11) . What I have noticed since coming to Rowan is that people who talk/interact in Northern Jersey (where I am from) act differently in terms of talking than South Jersey too. This ties into a literacy practice that is online, such as Facebook. Individuals who come from different areas would defiantly write in different ways online because of their common language and similar form of communication. Also, a discourse community of individuals/friends who value a certain type of music will revolve around communicating about this, and may discuss this in different forms of social media, such as twitter. However, a discourse community of individuals ( coworkers) who truly value and have an interest in education will use literacy practices in an educational way. They will focus on using the social aspect to do things like email about how to improve a classroom too. There is a specific social group /discourse community that I am a part of that defiantly mixes print and digital literacy. When thinking about this for a few moments, the social group that came to my mind is my job that I work in the student center here at school called Rowan After Hours. At my job that I have developed a very social community with, I have noticed that we do use a mixture of print and digital literacy to reach a common goal of being successful in the workplace since we value the student center. For example, my boss will set up different tasks for us to do during the night in a print, paper form sometimes. Other times, she has her job descriptions for us on her ipad that she uses, and we are allowed to look at them. Going along with this, we embrace digital literacy a lot at this job, and I love that we do this. At my job, we have a Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/rowanafterhours/ where we deliver important information about the job, and we interact with one another with this form of technology. Emails are also sent out on a daily basis about staff bondings that we are having. I feel that I would not be successful at my job without the mixture of print and digital literacy here. Just as Barton and Hamilton explain, different domains have their own practices and they are not random. My job decided to have these specific practices of literacy to develop success in this wonderful discourse community that I am part of.
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