Digital Advocacy

As part of my ongoing quest to learn new digital skills I have created my first ever YouTube video that I posted myself.

I feel that the skills I have learned as part of this process are essential literacy abilities that are often over looked. I had to go through an intense learning process in order to be able to learn the skills needed to create this video. I found that just like traditional literacy I started to be able to make connections to past knowledge that guided my learning process.

Students who grow up in this technological generation thrive with the use of technology. One of the reasons that I continue to push myself to learn more and be able to create this sort of production is for the benifit of my learners. You never know when you may have an opportunity to utilize these skills and what impact that this form of literacy may have on our students understanding. This is why I continue to strive to learn more.



This video was created based on the Centre for Dreams in Markham Ontario. My brother David is a member at the centre for Dreams. In my Adult Education class we had to create an organization and some form of digital artifact to represent this fictious place. I changed Dreams into Hope and tried to capture how important having a place like the Centre for Dreams is to a community.