Multiple Literacies

My current multiple literacies include text messages, television, MySpace, textbooks, children’s books, Facebook, and emails. I utilize all of these multiple literacies at least once a day. With access to these multiple literacies, I can communicate with others, learn new information, and entertain myself or my children. MySpace and Facebook are two multiple literacies in my life that I have a relationship with others. I can communicate with my friends and family, or I can observe information about my friends by reading their profiles. I am addicted to MySpace because it allows me to keep up with many people without calling or seeing them. I love to log in Facebook to read all the comments and messages that all my friends post. I use Facebook and MySpace as a way of communicating with others, keeping up with others, and finding old friends that I lost contact with after high school.
Television is a multiple literacy that I have in common with my friends and family. I can communicate with them about television shows that we like to watch. I enjoy watching a movie or a cartoon show with my kids. I can communicate with them about the show. My kids love to talk about what is happening on a cartoon show. I believe that television enhances a closer communication bond between my family and me. Textbooks are one of my multiple literacies because I have to read the text in the books and discuss the information with classmates and my teachers. I have a relationship with my classmates and my teachers when we discuss the information that we read in our textbooks. Another one of my multiple literacies is reading children’s books. When I read my kids a book, there is a bonding relationship between us. As a way to say goodnight, I will read them a bedtime story, and they love to hear that story before they go to sleep.
I use Email as a way to communicate with my teachers, classmates, friends, and miscellaneous people about business issues. I can Email my teachers if I have a question or concern about the class. My teachers send Emails that include power points or other information needed for their class. I send Emails to my classmates about school issues or assignments. I mainly use Email as a way to correspond to my teachers and classmates. I communicate with friends and family through text messaging as one of my multiple literacies. I am able to send a question or comment to my friends in a rapid method. All of the multiple literacies in my life allow me to communicate daily with my friends, family, classmates, teachers, and others.