Transliteracy

What is transliteracy? And what does it mean to school librarians? In this Slideshare, Buffy Hamilton, school librarian at Creekview High School in Canton, Georgia, looks at multiple definitions of transliteracy during a panel discussion at the SLJ Summit 2011: The New World of Reading–Digital, Networked, Transliterate. She poses questions of what this “convergence of literacies” means both in classrooms and school libraries. Transliteracy requires active participation with multiple platforms and methods of delivery, as well as the ability to adapt to the ever growing types of media and messages. It isn’t about teaching one type of literacy in isolation. A group of LPS school librarians were able to attend the SLJ Summit and will be able to share more information on this topic.