The DALN is pleased to offer users the the following resources.
DALN Forms (Informed Consent, Release, Deed of Gift, Creative Commons Licences)
Basic Literacy Questions
Conducting an Interview
DALN Assignment Ideas for Teachers
Formative Assessment ideas for Teachers
Hosting an "Everybody Has a Literacy Story" Event
Recording in Public Place Tips Recording in Public Places Notice
Recording Tips and Recomendations
Setiing Up a Simple Story Recording Booth
Simple Recording Directions (for onsite, online recording)
What is a Literacy Narrative?
Why We Need the Forms
DALN Flier
Everybody Has a Literacy Story Event Flier
Everybody Has a Literacy Story Event Sample Press/Radio Release
Public Service Announcements (ZIP Archive of 4 audio PSAs, 1.83 MB)
Anonymous "Memory Work" (Audio, 1.86 MB)
Valerie Lee "My Literacy Narrative" (Video, 550 KB)
Susan Miller "A Story about Reading in School" (Video, 3.67 MB)
Yusuf "Everyone Has a Gift" (Video, College)
Katie Piper "Literacy Story" (Print, College)
Rebecca Lowe "Different Roads to Literacy" (Print, College)
Gwyn Casey "My Literacy Story" (Print, College)
Anonymous "How I learned to Read" (Print, 4th Grade)
Anonymous "My First Email" (Audio, 4th Grade)
Sheridan Blau "Discovering My Intellectual Identity in Reading Norman Mailer" (Video, 7.8 MB)
Glen Armstrong "Music Narrative" (Audio, 4.6 MB)
Teachers' Resources (assignments, samples, workshops, formative assessment ideas)
Angrosino, Michael. "Conducting a Life History Interview"
Fleischer, Cathy. "Literacy Narratives"
King, Julie. "Literacy Narratives: Working with Parents"
Truesdell, Barbara. "Oral History Techniques: How to Organize and Conduct Oral History Interviews"
Shopes, Linda. "What is Oral History?"
Walsh, Jennifer. "Literacy Narratives, Knowing Students"
Williams, Bronwyn. "Heros, Rebels, and Victims: Student Identitites in Literacy Narratives"
IRB Application
Original Approval 2006
Updated Approval 2008-2010
