This document discusses information and transmedia fluency. It defines transmedia fluency as the ability to follow stories and information across multiple formats. Information and transmedia fluency is the ability to locate, organize, analyze, and apply information to problems across different formats while engaging in critical inquiry. The document also discusses challenges in assessing these skills in academics and with "knowmads," and provides examples of workshops and rubrics to help with assessment.

1. Information & Transmedia Fluency

2. Transmedia

4. Capacidade de acompanhar o fluxo
de histórias e informações em
várias modalidades.

6. Ability to follow the flow of stories
and information across multiple
modalities.

8. Information &Transmedia Fluency
– Defined
To reflectively locate, organize, analyze
and apply information to a defined
problem across multiple modalities.
Valuing critical inquiry to engage with the
knowledge and ethical practices of a
discipline or chosen profession.

9. •Information Literacy
• Finding and working with information.
•Technology (really Transmedia) Fluency
• Using technology to locate and manipulate
information.

10. Challenges

12. Academics

14. Common responses from faculty…
•“I lecture on what legitimate sources are
and then double check when they use
sources that they are legitimate.”
•“I assess students in this course in two
ways. One, through their presentation of
this material, through oral citations,
organization of evidence, type and variety
of evidence, reliable and credible sources.”

16.  Not enough time in the semester to
incorporate information literacy and core
curriculum.
 Students don’t “care about” good
research and Googling is the easy
way out.
 No clear definition of what students
should be capable of doing and what
instructors should be teaching.

17. Knowmads

20. •What methods do students use most when
searching for answers or material?
•“Google searches (or other search
engines) and I am always amazed how
many students solely use Wikipedia as a
source.“

23. Technology &
Information Transmedia
Fluency

25. Where do you find
information?

27. PLAY
the capacity to experiment with one’s
surroundings as a form of problem-solving

28. Multitasking
the ability to scan one’s environment and
shift focus as needed to
salient details

29. Judgment
the ability to evaluate the reliability and
credibility of different
information sources

30. Creation
shaping the flow of media such as video
and blogging

31. Curation
the ability to store, catalogue and display
information for future use

32. Confronting the
Challenges
of Participatory
Culture

34. How to assess
transmedia???

36. Work in progress
• 4 categories for Information and Technology
Literacy lot.
• Using a ranking system from 3 to 0.
• Creating a rubric for assessment.
• All is subject to change.

38. Badges

44. Assess-A-Palooza
• October 18, 2013
• For more info see frccslc.wordpress.com/
• Coming soon to a Front Range Community
College Campus near you!

46. “Life is a journey not a destination.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

47. The End
produced by Kae Novak and John Heisel
Front Range Community College

48. sources
• Confronting the Challenges of Participatory
Culture: Media Education for the 21st
Century, by Henry Jenkins
• Research from the Information and
Technology Literacy learning outcome team.
Front Range Community College.