I am the Audience

I have been creating and writing assignment in writing class for different audiences. It is the time to take myself as an audience. Among the high tech-media, computer with internet could be the most persuasive media for me and it is also my favorite media of knowing the news and new knowledge. A small box contains everything!

If someone is going to make a project for me, I would like it to be an artwork. I like such things are non-verbal. There is no specific aspect of an artwork. Everybody has their own interpretation and their own words for it which are I find it interesting. I like to know and hear different perspective from people of a same work.

web design literacy

In my CSE101 class, I am done with all the common course and start to do web design in detail. I learned about the language of website. I have never learned anything about computer before. All I knew about computer were about chatting on messenger or browsing website. The TA taught us both how to us NVU, which is a web design program, and Cascading Style Sheets to create our own word of a website. This is the first time I wrote a complete “html” file, which is simple but interesting. I realized that even a website has its own language just like human. I was pleased in today’s course because my web design literacy has imporived.

Visual Literacy

I have always wondered how big the world is, how broad the sky is, and how colorful the life is. This image represents my literacy, a little girl full of curiosity. I open my eyes as wide as possible like I am observing things through the magnifying glass. I am so curious about every single thing happening under the beautiful blue sky. It is so big and wide that there is always something I do not know. All I can do is keeping learning through different stage. Now I am in the stage of studying abroad in the United States, which earns a lot of new information. The most significant difference is I meet many people from different country and know every country’s cultural background. Even though people come from different place, we all live under the same sky and share the pretty little things. I enjoy learning new things to satisfy my curiosity. Without pressure, I wander freely on lawn, enjoy the cozy atmosphere.

Disney Literacy

I went to Disney World with my boyfriend during spring break. I have always admired Walt Disney, who created the place where dreams come true. After we came back from Florida, we have started to search the information about him both through the internet online and books. We wondered why he is so successful and how every story was created. How come only three simple circles could become so popular? Afterwards, we have known a lot of his background and accomplishment through reading all the information. He was a guy full of imaginations. Mickey Mouse was the first character that Walt Disney created, and also its voice was from him. Walt Disney won about 22 Oscar Awards, which I guess was the highest records ever. We read the article about how he planned every theme park. The budget was extremely high and unaffordable, but he was lucky that his brother always helped him to find a way out. There are way too many information about him for us to dig out. In fact, I do not really like reading, especially reading in English. However, I enjoy learning all the information about Walt Disney. Because of the passion to Disney I have, no matter how long it takes me to read to understand its background, I will still do it. I consider this is Disney Literacy.

blog entry for literacy - language is part of the literacy in my life

Even though I am now in the United States, I had hung out with Taiwanese people a lot. Usually we talk to each other in Mandarin, so my English did not improve at all. Ever since I got a boyfriend who came from Thailand, English has become the main language use in my life. In order to communicate with my boyfriend, I have to learn English harder than I used to do. I have started to learn and remember vocabularies by reading some newspaper and magazines in my free time. Speaking is the primarily method which I learn. My boyfriend came to the United States when he was young, so he English is very good. He has taught me a lot, and my English has improved a lot, too. Now, I understand what professors are teaching in classes more than before. I am not afraid of talking with foreigners anymore. Learning second language is hard; however, it has become part of my literacy in my life.

Literacy blog 1 - March 7

Today is March/07/2009. I am here at Universal Studio Orlando, Florida. I came here for spring break and today was the first day being in the theme park. It is not my first time to go to Universal Studio, but I was still surprised from what I saw and observed today. One of the shows which I learned the most from it was the “Horror Movie Make-up Show.” I was the audience watching the people showing us how makeup works in Hollywood movies. They showed us through not only talking but performing and demonstrating. As far as I am concerned, it is more efficient and better for people to learn from using all these ways together. And then, I took a tour which showed how Hollywood movies make different kinds of scenes, such as tornado, fire, flood, and so on. After I watched those, I realized that all the scary scenes in the movies are all faked. I was cheated. From now on, I will not be afraid of the scenes anymore because I know they are all schemed and designed. I learned a lot from today’s experience through watching, listening, and feeling, which helped me learning. I have known more about movie literacy through these interesting shows.

Literacy

To me, literacy can be used in many ways. As we discussed, literacy can be meant by interpreting and understanding some kind of text. But since a definition of a text is somewhat not clear, anything could be a text. I think that literacy involves identifying, interpreting, understanding, and also feeling. When reading an article, book, or a story, not only you will be able to interpret and understand it, I think it creates an emotion. If it's sad, a sad emotion will be created though interpreting and understanding of it. Same goes with everything else such as a movie, photograph, music, or even an art piece. To me, literacy is not just the ability to interpret and understand, I think it is also the ability to feel an emotion from the "text."