I decided to take a break from the DQ stuff and write about transliteracy today instead. “Transliteracy is the ability to read, listen to, synthesize and apply what we gather across different platforms” (1). When I think about students demonstrating transliteracy, I think of a specific example that applied to me when I was in school. I think about all of the film and video production classes that I took in high school and college. Video production requires effectively writing a script, working a camera, choosing what shots/visuals to include, and considering when to incorporate titles, dialogue or possible captions. There is a ton of creative freedom in video production, but one must be sufficiently transliterate to pull it off. It makes me wonder about what is offered in NVUSD – Do we have video production classes for or students in high school? (I genuinely don’t know, but I can tell you we did not at my old school.)
I was a video production/media studies major in college (back when I was still trying to find my path in this world), but I think the skills I cultivated then contribute to my teaching and my general technical abilities today. That’s because making videos helped me become more transliterate! I hope for NVUSD students who are passionate about video production, we can provide them with this ever-so-important opportunity in education.
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