Teacher librarians are in a position to provide students with opportunities to work across different platforms in order to help them learn and communicate in schools and the world. The idea of being ‘transliterate’ is a term I believe we will continue to hear more and more about and as information providers it is important that teacher librarians have a strong understanding of this. We can work collaboratively with classroom teachers to ensure students are exposed to this and have an understanding of how a range of different platforms work.

Seesaw is an app which definitely helps with literary learning.  This app allows staff to upload information which could be a video, text, spoken language or a picture and a task can be allocated to this.  Students are able to respond in a range of ways which includes typing, writing on the screen, speaking, taking a video and uploading this and taking a photo and uploading this with a written or spoken description.  Staff and students are able to respond with a comment and record a message. This app provides so many different ways that students can receive information and present this as well which is what is so great about it.  It is great for collaboration between teaching staff and library staff as library staff can access teachers’ pages and classes to assist them with their students’ learning.