This document summarizes a community connect event on July 4th 2013 about visual literacy. It introduces the speaker, Ness Crouch, and their background. It then discusses how visual elements create meaning in learning area texts and how students can understand and evaluate how images and language work together. The document provides several links to resources on visual literacy and lists online tools that can be used to edit and repurpose images and text, such as Thinglink, Pinterest, and Storybird. It concludes by providing Ness Crouch's contact information.

1. # Community Connect
Thursday 4th July 2013
Ness Crouch

2.  Thanks to Steve Hargadon for allowing us
to use this room.
 Who am I?
 Leader of Pedagogy, classroom teacher, ICT
enthusiast, learner, risk taker
 Who's in the room?

4.  This element involves students understanding
how visual information contributes to the
meanings created in learning area texts. It
includes interpreting still and moving images,
graphs, tables, maps and other graphic
representations, and understanding and
evaluating how images and language work
together in distinctive ways in different
curriculum areas to present ideas and
information in the texts they compose and
comprehend. In developing and acting with
literacy, students:
 understand how visual elements create meaning.
http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/GeneralCapabilities/Literacy/Organising-elements/Visual-knowledge

5.  ACARA – General Capabilities – Literacy
 http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/Gen
eralCapabilities/Pdf/Literacy
 http://creatingmultimodaltexts.com/visual-
literacy/
 http://k-8visual.info/
 http://e4ac.edu.au/

6.  Thinglink – www.thinglink.com
 Pinterest – www.pinterest.com
 Storybird – www.storybird.com
 Storyboardthat – www.storyboardthat.com
 Visual.ly - http://visual.ly/
 Infogram - http://infogr.am/
 Google Art Project -
http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/ho
me

9.  nesscrouch@gmail.com
 @createdbyness
 http://misscrouch.edublogs.org

10.  AJ presents images and text: editing, and
repurposing using online tools