The document discusses transliteracy, defined as the ability to read, write, and interact across various media and technologies, emphasizing its importance in the 21st century. It highlights the need for individuals to adapt their literacy skills to navigate the increasing complexities of communication technologies. Ultimately, the text argues that success in today's world depends on the capability to learn, unlearn, and relearn across different platforms.

1. This Transliterate Life
All Tech Considered: Navigating through
multiliteracies
Houston Community College Faculty
Conference
February 2, 2013
Bobbi L. Newman
@librarianbyday
librarianbyday.net
http://www.flickr.com/photos/xctmx/500076762/

2. Exploring Transliteracy:
- What is transliteracy?
- Why does it matter?
- How do we get there?

3. Transliteracy -
a rose
by any
other name

4. Transliteracy is 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.
-Thomas, et al

5. change of perspective away from
the battles over print versus digital
-Thomas et al.

6. Skills that
transfer

8. …what it means to be literate in the
21st century. It analyzes the
relationship between people and
technology…. It focuses more on the
social uses of technology, whatever
that technology
may be.
– Ipri, 2010

9. The most fundamental notion of
transliteracy is the ability to adapt.
It’s creating a literacy and fluidity
between mediums that’s not tied to
space or
modality.
- Karp, 2010

10. Why does it matter?

11. The 21st century is
when everything
changes.
And we have to be
ready.
-Captain Jack Harkness, Torchwood

12. Acceleration of
Communication
Technologies

13. The future is here it is just
not evenly distributed
-William Gibson

14. Myth of the Digital Native

15. It is about far more
than access to
technology, it is
about using
technology well.

16. We are floating (or
sinking) in a sea of
technology.

17. We are exposed to more mediated
messages in one day than our great-
grandparents were exposed to in a year.
-Center for Media Literacy

18. …much of what
gets posted on any
given day is in
public but not for
the public.
- Shirky, 2009

19. You already have
zero privacy.
Get over it.
McNealy ,1999

20. The illiterate of the 21st century will not
be those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot
learn, unlearn, and relearn.
- Alvin Toffler

21. If anyone can claim
to be an
Expert,
What is an expert?

22. How?

23. … all communication types
across time and culture. It
does not privilege one above
the other but treats all as of
equal value and moves
between and across them.
-Thomas, et al

24. Remember technology is
only a
tool

25. Transliteracy happens in the places
where different things meet, mix, and
rub together.
-Thomas, et al
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gribley/1518211292/

27. Own your weaknesses

28. Play

29. Take
risks

30. Fail

31. Questions
Bobbi L. Newman
@librarianbyday
www.librarianbyday.net
bobbi@librarianbyday.net

32. Photo Credits
1. http://www.flickr.com/photos/xctmx/500076762/ 16. http://www.flickr.com/photos/phineasgage/31185159
2. http://www.flickr.com/photos/untitlism/2603959306/ 33/
3. http://www.flickr.com/photos/maureendidde/4644336 17. http://www.flickr.com/photos/barb/83108156/
779/ 18. http://www.flickr.com/photos/soyiro/272463226/
4. http://www.flickr.com/photos/squinza/2827340185/ 19. http://www.flickr.com/photos/96dpi/1159324763/
5. http://www.flickr.com/photos/aidanl/518139527 20. http://www.flickr.com/photos/meredithharris/2129929
6. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jdhancock/4284555396/ 046/
7. Wordle 21. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jdhancock/4083295771
8. http://www.flickr.com/photos/darwinbell/2933618283/ 22. http://www.flickr.com/photos/midnightglory/24817697
9. http://www.flickr.com/photos/brainless- 77/
angel/120509366/ 23. http://www.flickr.com/photos/daunphilipp/477185363/
10. http://www.flickr.com/photos/sahlgoode/5185095492 24. http://www.flickr.com/photos/baboon/13260830/
/ 25. http://www.flickr.com/photos/gribley/1518211292/
11. Captain Jack Harkness 26. Endlessorigami.com
12. http://www.flickr.com/photos/nesster/2165873106/ 27. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jhayat/4526204795/
13. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jdhancock/5587313307/ 28. http://www.flickr.com/photos/96dpi/1159324763/
14. http://www.flickr.com/photos/nesster/2165079081/ 29. http://www.flickr.com/photos/herby_fr/172443603/
15. http://www.flickr.com/photos/rbochet/6130218020/ 30. http://www.flickr.com/photos/zooboing/4538568321/
31. http://www.flickr.com/photos/miyukiutada/428153221
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33. References
• Andretta, S. (2009). Transliteracy: Take a walk on the wild side. In World Library and Information Congress: 75 th
IFLA Genreal Conference and Assembly, Milan, Italy: 23-27. http://eprints.rclis.org/handle/10760/14868
• Ipri, T. (2010) Introducing Transliteracy. College & Research Libraries News, 71(10), 532-567.
• Karp, J. (2010, Oct 25). What is this buzz word “transliteracy”? (Blog) Retrieved from
http://spotlight.macfound.org
• Newman, B., et al. (2011). Beginner’s guide to transliteracy. Available online at
http://librariesandtransliteracy.wordpress.com/beginner’s-guide-to-transliteracy/
• Saveri, A., Rheingold, H., & Vian, K. (2005). Technologies of cooperation. Palo Alto CA. Retrieved from
http://www.rheingold.com/cooperation/Technology_of_cooperation.pdf
• Shirky, C. (2008). Here comes everybody: The power of organizing without organizations. New York: Penguin
Press.
• Thomas, S., et al. (2007). Transliteracy: crossing divides. First Monday, 12(12). Online.