The literacy group could use the information it has collected on a particular
topic to create a bulletin board display in a public place. Then the whole
community can benefit from the group’s research.
Think of a place in the community that has a lot of people passing by – the
community centre, church, arena, the Northern or Coop. If you are working
with the school in some way, you may be able to create a display in their front
entrance.
Your group could cover the bulletin board with a large piece of plexiglass to
keep your display in good shape. Ask for donations or sponsors.
If the literacy group is working on a long-term oral history project in which
they are collecting information on different topics, you could change the
bulletin board regularly as you collect more information. Different small
groups from your literacy group could be responsible for creating a new
bulletin board each month.
The bulletin board could include writing from the literacy group, family trees,
digital photographs, photocopied pictures or text from books, old photographs,
maps, pictures and text showing the steps in performing a skill, clothing
patterns – whatever relates to the project.
The group could put up a display of old photographs from one of the archives.
Laminate the photos first and name as many of the people in the photos as
possible. Leave sticky notes and pencils near the bulletin board, so people
from the community can add other names of people they recognize.
Put traditional objects or pictures of objects in the display and ask people to
guess where they came from or what they were used for. Again, leave sticky
notes and pencils. Encourage a community discussion!
Write stories and summaries of the interviews you have done and add them to
the board.
The facilitator teaches mini-lessons on the writing process, syllabic
keyboarding, grammar and any other topics as they come up during the
progress of the writing and editing.
The literacy group could make a collage of different images and words to
make a certain point or inspire people to think about issues. A collage is a
form of art in which various images and words are arranged on a backing to
create an artistic design or a meaningful message. Here are some examples
of things that could go on a collage: drawings, pictures, photographs, fabric,
quotations or meaningful words.
Use the bulletin board as a stimulus for a radio show discussion. (See Radio
Shows in the Oral Projects section).
“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”