Post 10

I feel that one change I have seen in literacy due to the computer is that people are acting more illiterate because online, they are not required to use grammar or punctuation.  On websites, people use many different abbreviations.  LOL is a common abbreviation used on the Internet.  Another is JK.  One that tends to pop up in students papers is the abbreviated version for night, which is nite.  I’m not going to lie, I have been guilty of this, but I always catch it when proof reading.  It is just so much easier to quickly write abbreviated words in informal situations such as facebook or a blog.  I really think that these informal websites and devices such as cell phones are decreasing literacy, but formal sites such as nytimes.com or magazine websites promote literacy.  I think it depends on what the technology user is interested in to decide if it is helping or hurting literacy.  I definitely agree with the authors of “The Future of Literacy” when they talk about how using other forms of technology such as videos, sound, and photographs to create meaning for literacy.  Personally, I like to compose by modeling for my friend’s photography shoots.  She is a photography major and I love being able to create the vision she has in her mind in order to get a point across.  If I am not modeling for her, I really enjoy going along with her and helping her think of new ideas.  I also really enjoy watching videos and looking at videos to trying to understand their meaning.  Even though I am not the one creating them, I am giving them meaning by thinking about it and creating my ideas about video or photograph