Giles post on Galster's 3-22

Lauren and I both seemed to have the same basic understanding of Literacy as a definiteion reduced to reading, writing, and ability to read. Now that our group has gotten more in depth into enviornmental literacy, and after we looked at other peers’ literacy definitons, we now have a more depth and understanding of the topic, and I can see that Lauren sees the same way when it comes to this in her blog. Lauren still agrees with the definition, but would add onto it now after all that we have covered. There are so many more aspects to literacy that do not simply have to do with reading, and lauren discusses those when she states that she would include literacy can in many other aspects, such as environmental, emotional, social, cultural and many more.into her definition of literacy. I agree with Lauren when she discussed that the research on enviornmental literacy helped her to think in a new way about literacy. I enjoyed her points she made throughout her blog, but the one that stuck out to me was when she said, “This definition (of enviornmental literacy) encompasses so many different aspects of environmental literacy and really illustrates how complex each topic of literacy really is. This makes me think more about the importance of my future teaching and how difficult, yet important it will be to incorporate all the different types of literacy into my lesson plans.” I feel a bit weary of all the information I have available to include in the lesson plan. I am afraid that perhaps I will not get it all in. There is not enough time in the day to teach all of these useful topics. It is a bit overwhelming knowing that I am responsible for teaching all of these important topics. Using the prezi makes me feel a bit better because I have a fun, newer way of presenting it.