Transliteracy refers to the ability to read, write, and interact across various platforms and media. It involves skills beyond traditional literacy, including competency with digital tools and multimedia. Transliteracy emphasizes fluidity between different modes of communication and active participation in online spaces. For young learners, being transliterate means engaging with stories through immersive digital experiences, user-generated content, and collaboration across multiple platforms. Educators should provide opportunities for students to experience and create information using various puzzle pieces of media.

1. Transliteracy and the Young Child SLJ Summit 2011: The New World of Reading—Digital, Networked, Transliterate Moderator Buffy Hamilton, School Librarian, Creekview High School, GAPanelist Laura Fleming, School Library Media Specialist, Cherry Hill School, NJPanelist Andy Plemmons, Media Specialist, David C. Barrow Elementary, GA Image used under a CC license from http://www.flickr.com/photos/courosa/3605504536/sizes/o/

2. Transliteracy… A brief compilation of perspectives and definitions by Buffy J. Hamilton | The Unquiet Librarian Design Inspiration by Helene Blowers http://www.slideshare.net/hblowers/a-library-9169446

3. how are we creating conversations about multiple ways of reading and writing today’s world?

4. Transliteracy is the ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio and film, to digital social networks. Source: http://nlabnetworks.typepad.com/transliteracy/

5. but what does that really mean?

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7. Transliteracy is an umbrella term encompassing different literacies and multiple communication channels that require active participation with and across a range of platforms, and embracing both linear and non-linear messages Dr. Susie AndrettaLondon Metropolitan University Source: http://nlabnetworks.typepad.com/transliteracy/Andretta_Transliteracy.pdf

8. Transliteracy is a “a convergence of literacies” (Lippincott, 2007: 17) as the boundaries between medial literacy, digital literacy, technology literacy and information literacy become blurred when individuals evolve from consumers of information to producers of content. Dr. Susie AndrettaLondon Metropolitan University Source: http://nlabnetworks.typepad.com/transliteracy/Andretta_Transliteracy.pdf and http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ERM07610.pdf

9. “The most fundamental notion of transliteracy is the ability to adapt. It’s creating a literacy and fluidity between mediums that’s not tied to space or modality.” Ryan Nadelfounder of 8 Leaf Digital Productions and an instructor at the Vancouver Film School Source: http://spotlight.macfound.org/featured-stories/entry/what-is-this-buzz-word-transliteracy-a-qa-with-ryan-nadel/

10. Transliteracy is concerned with mapping meaning across different media and not with developing particular literacies about various media. It is not about learning text literacy and visual literacy and digital literacy in isolation from one another but about the interactionamong all these literacies. Tom Ipri Liaison Librarian to the College of Media Arts and Design atW. W. Hagerty Library at Drexel University Source: http://crln.acrl.org/content/71/10/532.full

11. “…transliteracy is a shape-shifting eco-system of behaviours and it is probably neither possible nor desirable for anyone to understand enough to know the whole elephant. The vital thing is to remember it is always there and in constant motion. This means recognising the limits of your own knowledge and accepting a degree of messiness and uncertainty.” Professor Sue ThomasDe Montfort University, Leicester, UK Source: http://nlabnetworks.typepad.com/transliteracy/2010/12/argue.html

12. …thinking linearly about literacy is seldom a good idea. Literacy should be thought of as a holistic ecology, not a linear series of events and changes… Professor Sue ThomasDe Montfort University, Leicester, UK Source: http://bit.ly/p4g9YJ

13. “the process of being transliterate does not have an end point. Instead, I like to think of the transliteracy process as being like a nautilus that is constantly growing and adding chambers to its shell.” Jamie Hollier Project Coordinator for Public Computing Centers at Colorado State Library Source: http://www.jamiehollier.com/2011/07/supporting-transliteracy-part-1/ CC image via http://www.flickr.com/photos/donlonphoto/2721385316/

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18. what does a transliterate young learner look like?

19. TransmediaLearningWorldsLaura Fleming, School Library Media Specialist, Cherry Hill School, NJ

20. New reading experiences Innovative possibilities of online books Immersion - the importance of ‘you’ Digital reading creates relevance Sharing, participating, re-discovering Personalizing the experience Storytelling with multimedia, gaming, social media

21. from StoryWorld.... ....to LearningWorld

22. Pedagogy Participative Constructivist Connectivist Transformative ....creating LearningWorlds

23. Immersive StoryWorlds + Pedagogy

24. Alice Leads the Way

25. ...born digital...

26. User-Generated Content

27. “....helping students construct knowledge and convey complex messages through meaningful, challenging, technology-enhanced experiences.”

28. Transliterate Collaboration Andy Plemmons, Media Specialist, David C. Barrow Elementary, GA

29. What are the puzzle pieces that our students need to experienceandcreate story and information? CC Image: http://www.fotopedia.com/items/flickr-3261364899

30. Print vs. Digital http://www.flickr.com/photos/nhn_2009/5416794944/

31. How can students experiencean event or story across multiple platforms, tools, and media?

32. How can students create and share across multiple platforms, tools & media?

33. What puzzle pieces are hidden from our students? http://www.flickr.com/photos/kristina06/6130255931/sizes/l/in/photostream/

34. Q&A

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