Photo by Chris Benson on Unsplash Well, this is the cap on the 703 blog posts for my class on transliteracy. As a teacher, it's easy for me to steep in the world of academia, communicating in one sole fashion. Through this class, I've learned that the production and consumption of important messages can take many more shapes than written word. Not only can they, but they must take different shapes. In the world of academics, traditionally, messages were communicated by a filled page of text, but through this course I have learned that messages are even, and especially conveyed in the empty spaces!
Accessibility has been a key word for me this trimester. Is what I'm creating and trying to communicate accessible? Am I sticking to a familiar or traditional format when other formats would make my message accessible to a wider audience? By taking away from this course baby-step skills in video editing and...I don't want to say graphic design but maybe...visual element assemblage, I have begun to think about other areas of my career and life in which I'd like to use these skills to communicate a message in a meaningful and memorable way. Learning about the importance of making our messages accessible to our audience has made me think about how I emphasize this in my own classroom. If the visual, verbal, and auditory are all just as powerful in terms of clearly communicating a message, we should be designing instruction in the same way for kids from day one and teaching them transliteracy skills as they learn to communicate their own stories and thinking with the world.
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