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This online project focuses on documenting and preserving the literacies
of communities through personal literacy narratives. In the project we
describe why first-hand narratives can serve very useful vehicles for documenting the
literacies of a community,
and we offer a blueprint for working with community members,
helping people record there first-hand accounts about reading and composing,
talking about the role such activities play in their lives, and preserving those
narratives in the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives, the DALN,
for the purposes of this site and project
we also offer an example at case study class
entitled the literacy narratives of black columbus
which was spotted a high state univeristy and focused on the literacy
practices and values and african-american communities and
churches in columbus ohio
from two thousand in ninety two thousand twelve this case study course was taught
as a second level writing class and ohio state university
one that was fashioned in collaboration with local leaders
community members
undergraduate and graduate students
and ohio state university's african and african studies community extension
center
this case study course was designed to document and preserve the literacy
narratives of black citizens
in columbus ohio
stories told in their own words based on their own experiences and histories and
documented for their own purposes we think this course offers an example that
other communities in groups can explore in preserving their stories
now the goal of this online project is to encourage a other people to take the
bones
and of course if we cut it off and state
univeristy and come modified the framework to suit other community
literacy projects
projects that are defined by local interests
local neighborhoods
towns and communities we also want to encourage others to use the digital
archive of literacy narratives to preserve these literacy stories
such projects are going to differ widely depending on the local context
within which they happen
the needs of the communities of which they are park
so we encourage you to use your
own talents and modified these materials
we encourage individuals to use a modified any of the materials in the
project for the purposes of your own projects
attributing this itunes course appropriately
in this section we will describe what uh... literacy narrative is
and will provide some examples of section artists
well also talk about the digital archive of literacy narratives the d_a_ elan
as concept percent narrative
well also explore the challenges of working with and for community partners
and will think about how to prepare volunteers
or students
undertake such a project
well also discussed the farms and the scheduling and logistics involved in
such a course
and will give some hints about uploading literacy narratives through the d_a_
land
so they can be preserved for history