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@amyburvall
Image is Everything:
Exploring Visual Literacy
for Critical Thinking
bit.ly/imagED

http://bit.ly/imagED
drawing app
(Paper 53 recommended)

Introductions
see G-doc “Activities”
life in 3 emoji
CSI of you
3 of me
how am I? sketch

story of me in 3
what 3 images tell your story?

dual coding
and
picture superiority effect
Allan Paivio

Gutenberg Parenthesis
return to more
visual/ oral

Scholars will be instructed through the eye.
It is possible to teach every branch of
human knowledge with the motion picture.
Our school system will be completely changed
inside of ten years
- Thomas Edison

disclaimer:
don’t stress out
about your artistic
abilities…
this is about
thinking

@donalddrawbertson
Unexpected Mediums

Challenge: draw your favorite activity

Now draw the same thing again…

Don’t THINK about making ART -
just get it DONE.
Let everyone else decide
if it’s GOOD or bad…
…while they are deciding,
make even MORE ART.
Andy Warhol

“Unﬂattening” - PhD as graphic novel @Nsousanis

“If only we could pull out
our brain
and use only our eyes.”
― Pablo Picasso

conﬁdence
problem-solving
focus
perseverance
collaboration
What we learn from the ARTS
(besides Creativity)

“Why Doodlers are the New ‘Now’”

golf course
architect
I met on the plane
vision / prototype

important in cross-cultural groups,
for whom visual sketches can
bridge gaps of understanding

Images existed before words,
and they do convey
a sense of universality
- artist Jean Julien

media literacy
and
digital ﬂuency

metaphorical
thinking
+
iconography

use metaphorical and visual thinking to
express complex and abstract ideas

Ads are the cave art
of the twentieth century
― Marshall McLuhan

Kennings
hyphenated compound metaphor
Anglo-Saxon and Norse literature
“northern kiss”= cold wind
“whale-road” = the ocean
“sky-candle”= sun

analogies game
word bank of nouns
seek connections (use like and as)
visualize
horse wind

mood board: Padlet via @wickedDecent
historical events, novels (this is Of Mice and Men)

Metaphor is about
association +
relationship
“EYE-DEAS”

Metaphor is about
association +
relationship
“EYE-CANDY”

Metaphor is about
association +
relationship
making ideas “grow” better

Metaphor is about
association +
relationship

feline devastation
starlight ﬁr
@serendipidoodle

try a Serendipidoodle
http://bit.ly/serendipidoodlizer

Pictographs / Isotypes (1930s)

collaborative creativity: #remash

student logo contest: “What If?”

Crowdsourced
Visual Vocab
create dictionary
of iconography

Crowdsourced
Visual Icon
Dictionary
- education
- idea
- technology
- information
- conﬂict
- love
- time
- change
- student
- government
- learning
- imagine
- travel
- question
- research/curation
- quote
- food
- success
- earth/world/global
- school
- team/group
- camera
- smartphone
- problem
- think
- imagine
- writing
- drawing

Essentializing
and
“Shortology”

David Ogilvy
big ideas usually come
as simple ideas
create a children’s book
explain in 3 image panel

Picasso’s Exercise: used at Apple

condensed shakespeare, mya gosling

MINIMALIST MOVIE POSTERS
POEMS NOVELS HISTORICAL EVENTS

synthesis: emoji story
Emojiliterate?

Emoji Exit Ticket
Affective Data
how did I feel about my work or my learning?

images - no bullets
open-ended question
to lead class in
discussion

minimalist posters of a concept

minimalist posters
of a concept

listicle
(Thinglink or info.gram)

use real life items or people
length of hair= frequency of addiction

use real life items or people
photorealism

Visualize…
What’s in your head?
#ds106 challenge
*great for reﬂection

Remix: Infographic
from this ^ to this >

infographic remix
ﬁnd an original
and make it better
more clear, fun,
aesthetic
metaphorical, etc.

Creation
Creator
Motivation
Pos/Neg Effects
relations between
people and ideas

from Ikea’s Swedish cookbook
Blowout

ﬂow chart a song
(or poem,
or speech)

3 dimensional visualization of:
vocab word
math problem
event in history
process in science
movement in political science
Make it Tangible

BURNING HOUSE
if you had to
take only
10 things…

BURNING HOUSE
nothing material
is that important

http://webylife.com/
Graphic Design
and
Typography

metaphorical
typography
“where art meets type”

Stefan Sagmeister, metaphorical typographer

#literalalphabet
Bow-e
J-walk
M-bark
Y-knot

Myconography: Metaphorical Icons

#sketchquote
#threethirtysketchquote #birthdaysketchquote
take a break…and make!

try
 
Metaphorical
Typography
with your name, city,
or #oneword to describe your day

Sketchnoting
and
Graphic Facilitation

Visual Note-taking: some basics

Sketchnote Scribes G+
(linked on the side menu)

you begin to see things
you never noticed
before.…
you get closer
to the artist’s secret
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

develop your
own vocabulary
@TracyClark08

Crowdsourced Sketchnotes of Encouragement
@ktenkely

Colour Palette
Use ColourLovers site (http://www.colourlovers.com/ )
if you can
*if not, just make it up
Think of a concept, idea, person, etc. from your discipline
assign a palette to them + justify your reasoning
(10 min)

http://www.colourlovers.com/palettes/add
To Kill a Mockingbird palette excerpt
@wickeddecent

Bio: stage in a process i.e. meiosis, mitosis,
cellular respiration
Chem: palette for each major family on the periodic table
P.E.: color coded system for tracking achievement
Art or Poli Sci: Movements
Explaining Intentions
is the Key

develop your
own
“visual voice”
sketchnotes by @MrZiebarth
using Paper 53 Think Kit

Ironic T-Shirt
alone or with a partner
draw a t-shirt shape to ﬁll the page
think of concepts, vocabulary + people in your discipline
try to make a pun / play on words / portmanteau
illustrate as appropriate
(the image can be the funny part too)
(10-15 min)

a camera
teaches you to
SEE
without a camera
photo safaris

stuff your eyes with wonder
Ray Bradbury

low barrier entry points: photo-a-day

Photo Challenge Calendar
with partners from your discipline, plan 1 month of photo
challenges (shoot for 30 ideas)
*try the silent brainstorm then converge
Challenges should relate to some aspect of your curriculum
Challenges should be technically easy (low barrier) but
mentally stimulating, reinforcing the concept
(10 min)

“Ocean Pollution”
power of a simple image

Snap-enger Hunt with SnapChat
(photos now used for talking)

unsplash.com
10 free hi-res photos
every 10 days

TIME
what if we had…
drop everything and draw

thoughtfully consider
every space
as creative space

pic/ play / post app
Process Product Reﬂection

draw over photos
(even over
tweets)
Paper 53 for iPhone

Chomp
by Christoph Neimann
($3.99)
interactive
videos can be stitched
together in iMovie

Creative Speedsketching
Video:
Digital and Hybrid

When people ask me
if I went to ﬁlm school
I tell them, ‘No, I went to ﬁlms’
Quentin Tarantino

Plan a VlogMash
in the style of 50 People 1 Q
with partners from your discipline or alone
what question could you pose for students to answer
and create a “vlog mash”?
think deep, open-ended provocations, but ones that
require short, poignant responses
(5 min)

PAPER 53
APPLE KEYNOTE
MAGIC MOVE

draw on phone and import to laptop
layer in Keynote
duplicate slide + move a little
apply “magic move” as transition
import to iMovie, speed up when needed
add music and sound effects

OREO
Challenge
everyone gets 1 Oreo (a malleable object)
*if you need more you can partner with someone
use the Oreo, paper, + markers to visually depict some
concept you teach / advertise your content
you may change the Oreo any way you like!
1,2,3 photos

from @wickeddecent Pop Culture class

Create a Band
meet with 1-3 other people in your same discipline
(20 min)
Band Name= Title of Wikipedia article regarding some
aspect of your curriculum
Album Title: Quote or pieces of quote from someone key
to your discipline (famous ruler, philosopher, artist, scientist

Create a Band
Song Titles: relate to a concept you are teaching
(20 min)
Cover Art= Use search terms related to your subject area
OR a random Flickr or Instagram search (#tagged)
http://5card.cogdogblog.com/
OR try 5 card Flickr
Produce using an app, Photoshop, Gimp, PicMonkey

your big takeaway
a question
your personal
challenge

@amyburvall
(on all social media)

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