Multimodal Fluency -- What does it mean?

The four literacies: visual, multicultural, media, and digital.

This 43-slide show wraps up neatly and concisely what a 21st century classroom should like, and why.

Multimodal Fluency: Classroom to the Cloud

View more presentations from Sean Cordes.
Sean Cordes is an Assistant Professor of Western Illinois University.

Thanks to Bobbi Newman of Librarian by Day, who shared this on her Libraries and Transliteracy page.
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Transliteracy -- an AHA! moment

"Now there's an official word for it!"

This is what is going through my mind as I learn this morning about the word transliteracy, which is defined as:

"...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." Transliteracy Research Group

History of the concept: "Since 2005, when Professor Sue Thomas introduced this concept in the UK, transliteracy has been taken up and explored by a broad range of academics and practitioners, from information scientists to literary theorists, artists and writers."

Here's a YouTube slideshow video on the concept, as it relates to libraries:

Libraries and Transliteracy by Bobbi L. Newman

Thanks to Joyce Valenza and Bobbi Newman, Librarians Extraordinaire, who keep stoking the fires of excitement for us school librarians!