New Literacy Exploration Notes

Emotional Literacy told through Scrapblog

New Literacy
1. Especially important while online because we cannot convey emotions as well through typing or print, but yet with Instant Messaging or blogging, it is easy to feel more susceptible.
2. Emotional literacy includes how empathetic or emotional you will be or can be towards others
3. I found a definition that believes emotional literacy is the ability to express your feelings in three word sentences usually using the phrase, “I feel”. I’m wondering if you would be fluent in this literacy when you master this ability.
4. There are different types of messages that you can send when talking about feelings. There are I messages and you messages. I still have to research and find exactly how they differ and what the importance is of them.
5. Apparently not many of us are skilled at sharing our feelings because we often say things with “I feel like”. This is a form of indirect communication.
6. Teaching and focusing on emotional literacy can be especially helpful for students with special needs.

New Technology
1. Will be using www.scrapblog.com
2. It seems as though pictures will be especially important in this type of project which should be good since I am working with emotions, and they can be conveyed well through visuals.
3. There are previously created themes that you can choose from if you like, but I find them kind of hindering in the creativity sector, even though you are able to move the elements around.
4. It seems easy to import sources such as pictures from outside sources, including photobucket and blogger. It also seems easy to post your scrapblog on these outside sources.
5. As I started importing some pictures, I found that it will not import GIF. Images. It comes up blank rather than with the picture.