Visual skills are a necessary foundation for later speech and reading skills. In a highly visual world, the ability to understand visual imagery is a key information gathering ability.
3. I See What You Mean handout
“Hand” by mnsc http://www.flickr.com/photos/mnsc/2768392379/
4. Visual literacy
is the ability to understand and produce
visual messages
“My kid could draw that” by erin m http://www.flickr.com/photos/erin_m/4358534470/
5. Visual skills
are a necessary foundation
for later speech and reading
skills
“Reading with Daddy” by bolinhanyc
http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidheller/4367937673/
7. News photos and videos
http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/elist/eListRead/could_we_return_to_the_original_earth_day/
via Earth Island Journal
10. Maps and charts
Question from the August 2012 NYS Regents Exam
in Global History and Geography
http://www.nysedregents.org/GlobalHistoryGeography/812/glhg82012-examw.pdf
11. Blueprints,
schematics,
directions
“nick following pictographic lego instructions” by sean dreilinger
http://www.flickr.com/photos/seandreilinger/294259537/
“LEGO Instructions, Kindergarten Style” by eilonwy77
http://www.flickr.com/photos/eilonwy77/8094673988/
12. Social networking sites
and photo sharing apps
“That’s Polish girls for you” by Michal Huniewicz http://www.flickr.com/photos/m1key-me/9148965155/
14. Visual literacy in education
“Art teacher” by Mario Glambattista http://www.flickr.com/photos/mariogiambattista/8445168579/
15. Infographic from Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/12/3-awesome-visuals-on-todays-education.html
Active Learning, Columbia University
(http://www.columbia.edu/cu/tat/pdfs/active%20learning.pdf
16. Standards for Visual Literacy
NCTE http://www.ncte.org/standards/ncte-ira
ISTE http://www.iste.org/docs/excerpts/MEDLIT-excerpt.pdf
ACRL http://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/visualliteracy:
identifies need
finds & accesses
interprets & analyzes
evaluates
uses effectively
designs & creates
practices ethical use
“Abstract abstract of an abstract” by kevin dooley http://www.flickr.com/photos/pagedooley/2853368756/
18. CAVEAT for educators
“Multiple Intelligences” by pabeaufait http://www.flickr.com/photos/pabeaufait/2675722269/
“...rather than concern ourselves with the preferred learning
style of an audience member we should think about the
modality that best suits the content.”
-Olivia Mitchell, Speaking About Presenting
http://www.speakingaboutpresenting.com/presentation-myths/learning-styles/
20. Finds and Accesses
Creative Commons
http://search.creativecommons.org/
Wikimedia Commons
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/index.html
21. Finds and Accesses
Creative Commons
http://search.creativecommons.org/
Wikimedia Commons
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/index.html
25. Designs and Creates
“Architect” http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Architect.png
“Are We Still Afloat by artist Kaarina Kaikkonen” by Glyn Lowe http://www.flickr.com/photos/glynlowe/8496305256/
31. “Reading time...” by dmcordell http://www.flickr.com/photos/9298332@N06/4731471342/
Graphic
novels
are
nothing
new!
“Going Retro for International Read Comics in Public Day” by dmcordell
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dmcordell/6088827069/
32. Thompson, Terry. Adventures in Graphica; Using Comics and
Graphic Novels to Teach Comprehension, 2-6. http://
www.stenhouse.com/shop/pc/viewprd.asp?idProduct=9111
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7815007@N07/8365490682/
35. Wesley Fryer
Mapping Media to the Common Core
http://maps.playingwithmedia.com/visual-notetaking/
“Visual Notetaking” by Wesley Fryer http://www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/7840765042/
36. Visual writing prompts
What has just happened?
The Literacy Shed
http://www.literacyshed.com/the-images-shed.html
37. Student projects
Beyond the Book: Infographics of Students’ Reading History
http://www.edutopia.org/
blog/infographics-students-reading-history-sarah-gross
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQGlBeLd4Z0
40. Oakland Museum of CA
http://www.museumca.org/picturethis/match-objects
41. Image Detective
“Read an image closely. Think critically about turn of the century America.”
http://cct2.edc.org/PMA/image_detective/index.html
42. Ethical use: copyright and citations
Navigating the Maze http://navigatemaze.wikispaces.com/home
posting by Diane Cordell
“Copyright Criminal” by courosa http://www.flickr.com/photos/courosa/2481906964/
45. Creating a positive digital footprint
“Art Institute of Portland Portfolio Show”
by Lulu Hoeller
http://www.flickr.com/photos/artinstituteofportland/
3248694768/
VT High School Photography Student Exhibit
http://www.darkroomgallery.com/ex35
46. Created by Commonsense Media
http://www.commonsensemedia.org/sites/default/files/postaphoto-ms-hs-poster.pdf
48. Healthy Body Image:
A lesson plan for high school students
http://www.extension.purdue.edu/extmedia/CFS/CFS-737-W.pdf
American Eagle Ads
49. BEFORE
AFTER
The F& B Advertising Agency wanted to show just how easy it is to change someone’s appearance
in this campaign for their client, the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs (Sweden).
http://demo.fb.se/e/girlpower/retouch/retouch/index.html
50. “The Most Controversial Magazine Covers of All Times” http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/09/the-most-controversialmagazine-covers-of-all-time/
51. “The Most Controversial Magazine Covers of All Times” http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/09/the-most-controversialmagazine-covers-of-all-time/
62. CAVEAT #2 for educators
“Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and
communications, offers an infinite variety of perception,
interpretation and execution.” -Ansel Adams
“Nottingham contemporary” by University of Nottingham http://www.flickr.com/photos/uonottingham/6353245207/
73. "Today's society is highly visual, and
visual imagery is no longer
supplemental to other forms of
information...
Visual literacy empowers individuals to participate fully
in a visual culture."
Introduction, ACRL Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education )
“Me, Myself, and Eye” by Clearly Ambiguous http://www.flickr.com/photos/clearlyambiguous/47022668/
74. “I look; morning to night
I am never done with looking.”
-Mary Oliver
“Lady in a Red Hat” by dmcordell http://www.flickr.com/photos/dmcordell/6924583614/
75. “On the phone.” by Buzz Farmer http://www.flickr.com/photos/buzzfarmers/7317967922/
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