Keynote presentation for KU Village online conference (September 23, 2010). The cliché fixed exchange rate of one picture's value cannot possibly still be set at 1000 words! While some images are worth exactly 1000 words, most are likely worth much less, but we also now have access to use ones, for free, that are worth quite a bit more. For modern communication modes, from email to blog posts to presentations to online lessons, pictures add not only 'punch' to your writing via illustration, metaphor or abstraction-- they may even convey the bulk of a story. Can you speak your idea in photos? In this session we will explore the use of communication via photos, diving into the deep treasure trove of creative commons licensed images but also seeing how you can really stand out by using your own photos. To generate your own visual metaphors, you need not be a digital SLR über camera geek. We will look at a self-organized community of ordinary people who have grouped together to share their daily photos where most are finding a whole new way of looking at the world, often using simple pocket or mobile phone cameras. Taking photos or just finding and using them is a skill that improves tremendously just in the dedicated act of doing and reflecting, and makes for a useful model for self-directed learning. http://cogdogblog.com/stuff/kuvillage10/

1. Say It in Photos
Alan Levine
KU Vi"age 2010

2. flickr photo by majorleagues http://flickr.com/photos/mager/2768419540/
http://cogdogblog.com/stuff/kuvillage10

3. flickr photo by Thomas Hawk http://flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/2354086423/
How do we see?

4. text?

5. images?

6. flickr photo by Bill Liao http://flickr.com/photos/liao/154355830/
what does it say?

7. flickr photo by chuck_heston http://flickr.com/photos/chuckheston/383386494
what is it?

8. flickr photo by carf http://flickr.com/photos/beija-flor/63416552/
what is the sound?

9. flickr photo by freestone http://flickr.com/photos/freestone/183376463/
who made this?

10. flickr photo by pcgn7 http://flickr.com/photos/21204781@N07/2501994750/
what happened?

11. flickr photo by jimfrazier http://flickr.com/photos/jimfrazier/379661578/
what’s the feeling?

12. flickr photo by Juergen Kurlvink http://flickr.com/photos/kurlvink/2554907553/
where am I?

13. flickr photo by ashley rose http://flickr.com/photos/ashleyrosex/3042780224/
what is the story?

16. BS

18. How do we see the world?

19. Happy

20. Happy

21. Happy

22. Finding
flickr photo by Toby Maloy http://www.flickr.com/photos/
toby_maloy/102413554/

23. creative commons + flickr
http://flickr.com/creativecommons

24. emotion

25. emotion

26. emotion

27. tag(ent)

28. emotion

29. what the tag?

30. compfight.com

31. cc licensed flickr photo by Anguskirk
http://flickr.com/photos/anguskirk/2871096076/

32. http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/49395
cc licensed flickr photo by Anguskirk
http://flickr.com/photos/anguskirk/2871096076/

33. http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/49395
cc licensed flickr photo by Anguskirk
http://flickr.com/photos/anguskirk/2871096076/

34. cc licensed flickr photo by Ernst Vikne: http://flickr.com/photos/iboy/4532497884/
I’m not a good photographer

35. daily photos
2010/365 flickr group
http://www.flickr.com/groups/366photos/

36. Mindful Seeing
http://mindfulseeing.com/

37. Susan
http://susanvg2009.blogspot.com/2009/12/day-340-reflections.html

38. Kathy
http://konarheimphotoblog.blogspot.com/

40. http://www.dailyshoot.com/

41. @dailyshoot

42. minimalist flickr

43. maximalist flickr

44. cc licensed flickr photo by F0t0Synth
http://flickr.com/photos/ss2001/4702624351/
sparse comments

45. flickr+fiction
http://www.amazon.com/gp/blog/post/PLNK2CNH7P3M5FXIA

46. what’s the story?

47. http://metaatem.net/words/

49. http://www.pimpampum.net/phrasr/

50. Five Photo Stories
http://www.flickr.com/groups/visualstory/

51. (1)

52. (2)

53. (3)

54. (4)

55. (5)
The Chase
http://www.flickr.com/groups/visualstory/discuss/72157611666013264

56. five card nancy
http://www.7415comics.com/nancy/

57. Five Card Flickr Stories
http://web.nmc.org/5cardstory

58. http://web.nmc.org/5cardstory

59. http://web.nmc.org/5cardstory

60. http://web.nmc.org/5cardstory

61. http://web.nmc.org/5cardstory

62. http://web.nmc.org/5cardstory