Transliteracy: Making a Meaningful Story

1. Transliteracy
Making a Meaningful Message
Hope A. S. Harms
June 2014

2. Literacy
To read and write

3. Digital Literacy
To use information and
communication technologies

4. Information Literacy
To locate, evaluate, and use
effectively the information

5. Transliteracy
The ability to read, write and
interact across a range of
platforms, tools and media

6. Transliteracy
Mapping skills to move from
one medium to another

7. Transliteracy
Participating in the social
nature of communication

8. So what?

9. “The illiterate of the 21st
Century will not be those who
cannot read or write,
~Alvin Toffler, futurist

10. “The illiterate of the 21st
Century will not be those who
cannot read or write,
but those who cannot
learn, unlearn and relearn.”
~Alvin Toffler, futurist

11. Understanding
from the context of the
medium

12. Adaptability
to learn to use one format
to another

13. So what about us?

14. VISION

15. The library creates an
environment for people
to learn, to explore,
to enjoy, to create, to
connect…

16. And
to learn, to explore,
to enjoy, to create, to
connect…
is the essence of transliteracy!

17. How?

18. Make a story

19. Your story starts here.

20. Inference
Identify similarities
Use Analogy

21. Abstraction
Understand the how
Use Analogy

22. Re-representation
Play and create
Use Analogy

23. Be interactive
Engage the Audience

24. Be human
Engage the Audience

25. Make a
meaningful
message.

26. Resources
Gentner, D., & Colhoun, J. (2010). Analogical processes in human thinking and
learning. In B. Glatzeder, V. Goel, & A. von Muller (Vol. Eds.), On Thinking: Vol.
2. Towards a Theory of Thinking, pp 35-48. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
Ipri, T. (2010, November). Introducing transliteracy: What does it mean to
academic libraries?. College & Research Libraries News, 71(10), 532-533, 567.
Retrieved from http://crln.acrl.org/content/71/10/532.full
Thomas, S., Joseph, C., Laccetti, J., Mason, B., Mills, S., Perril, S., & Pullinger, K.
(2007, December 3). Transliteracy: Crossing divides. First Monday, 12(12). Retrieved
from http://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2060/1908
Toffler, Alvin. (n.d.). Toffler quotes. Retrieved from
http://www.alvintoffler.net/?fa=galleryquotes

27. Image credits
“Abstract Backgrounds” by NichoDesign, via
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nichodesign/10612749605/in/set-72157637197047226
“Intranet Advanced Search” by Noodle Vialect, via
https://www.flickr.com/photos/75397150@N07/8436611054
“Local Call” by gfpeck, via https://www.flickr.com/photos/wespeck/4960579336
“Mobile Worker” by Michael Coghlan, via
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mikecogh/7348035690
“Storytelling, Concord Library” by Local Studies NSU, via
https://www.flickr.com/photos/local_studies_nsw/6518792855
“Writing” by jeffrey james pacres, via
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jjpacres/3293117576
“Writing” by jeffrey james pacres, via
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jjpacres/3293117576