List of Resources on Information Literacy and Transliteracy

As I'm preparing to present at the School Library Journal Leadership Summit 2011, I'm thinking a lot about transliteracy and how I can create experiences and opportunities for students to "read, write, and interact across a range of platforms." Fifth grade approached me a few weeks ago about collaborating on a day of September 11th...

Our 4th grade is studying Native Americans and Explorers. When I met with the 4th grade team to plan, one of the main topics of our conversation was how we wanted our students to really think about perspective. We didn't want them to come away looking at the explorers as only a group of heroes,...

In our lesson, fifth graders at a Montgomery County elementary school will learn the facets of digital storytelling and research a foreign country. At the end of the lessons, we hope to change the student's perception of narrative writing to show that technology can be used to enhance the standard text and pictures in a story.

An introduction to information

What is Transliteracy? 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. - www.transliteracy.com What does it have to do with libraries?

At 3Ts 2013: Transliteracy from Cradle to Career in Saratoga Springs this week I learned some new things about transliteracy. 1. In What I Want, When I Want to Watch It: Brief Thoughts on Television Literacy in the Streaming World with Hollie Miller & Michele Forte, Hollie aka @theotherinside showed us a feature on Hulu Plus which allows you to choose between adverts.