Visual Literacy

Introduction:

IKEA Movie:  How visually literate are you?

IKEA Movie:  Rewind


What is your definition of visual literacy?

Visual literacy Definition: 21st Century Skills:  Can students interpret, use, appreciate and create images and video using both conventional and 21st Century media in ways that advance thinking, decision-making, communication and learning.

Media Literacy Definition:  Center for Media Literacy:  The ability to access, analyze, evaluate and create media in a variety of forms 

My definition:  In my opinion, visual literacy is composed of three discrete skills: navigating, evaluating, and communicating (create and mashup) in the context of visual imagery.

The Changing Media Landscape:

Most of you have seen Google Earth.  But have you seen this?  (Googlelittrips.com) Or this?  And what happens when YOU can create the visual map?  What happens when you can combine Flickr and Google Earth?

 

What happens when you see something like this?  Or this?

Does the number 2474434986 (Flickr.com number of images) have any meaning?  What do you do with an image like this?

And what happens when everyone can do this-and your local newspaper starts accepting visual letters to the editor?

And as an educator, what happens when you can create a lesson with a resource like this?

And tap into the technology skills that kids have as evidenced by Episode 8 of Dylan's Couch (Views: 1,058,344, Comments: 3578 Favorited: 1799 times).

Welcome to the Human Network

 

Part 2:  Communicating Visually in the 21st Century:  A Visual Literacy Framework

What exactly is the rationale or framework for the inclusion of visual literacy instruction in education, as it relates to life-long learning?  See the Communicating Visually link directly above.

Color, text and design principles can be found at this link:  Visual literacy design principles

 

Part 3: Visual Literacy in the Classroom-an activities continuum based on my definition of visual literacy, with resources for each component of the definition.

Navigate:  kids have to be able to find stuff.

Flickr Creative Commons Search

Yotophoto

Creative Commons Search

Flickr Storm

Evaluate: kids have to seek meaning in images.

Single image analysis and interpretation | iamChrisJett Homeless photo

How Big is a...

CancerQuest | A Tale of Two Telegrams | Civil Rights Quest | DesignQuest

Technology Best Practice.doc

 

Google Earth | Darfur | Vietnam Study | USGS San Francisco Earthquake | GoogleLitTrips

Communicate: kids have to use images to create meaning, by telling stories, creating content, and contributing.

 

MyMaps

uthTV

Sandburg meets Flickr

Gliffy

Thumbstacks

Flickr tools at BigHugeLabs |Images for successories poster

Digital Storytelling | Digital Storytelling resources at Jakesonline.org

Second Life

 

Resources

Literacy for the 21st Century: A framework for teaching and learning in the Media age | Center for Media Literacy

What would you like to know about visual literacy?

 

Some basics for inclusion somewhere in the presentation

  • Google Earth
  • Things you can do today
  • Things you can do tomorrow
  • Digital Storytelling
  • PowerPoint:  basic tenets and things you can do to improve use-get example from Chris.
  • Visual Quests
  • United Streaming
  • Components of visual literacy
  • Why Visual Literacy
  • Definition of visual literacy
  • VL Resources
  • IETC Presentation
  • Add in online visual imagery tools, such as filmloop, the Flickr captioner, photo manipulators, and the online visio.
  • Ted's project-Flicktion with example
  • Kids don't know the basics
  • http://eyespot.com/
  • digitalstoryteller.org
  • Thumbstacks
  • Slidestory
  • Filmloop
  • Visual Ranking/Seeing Reason
  • Face
  • Gliffy.com

 

 

Visual Literacy Workshop

Why are you here?  Discuss and their introductions. 

Workshop Overview

Define Visual Literacy.  Discuss

The New Shape of Information

  • Digital
  • Networked
  • Overwhelming
  • Immediate
  •  Manipulatable
  • Participatory (along with this comes need to evaluate), involving democratization of information exchange

Why teach visual literacy?  See page 2, Adobe Paper

 The Biological Basis of Visual Literacy 

  • Optic nerve:  1 million nerve fibers
  • Auditory Nerve:  30,000 fibers
  • We read 5 times faster than someone talks
  • We register a full color image, equivalent of a megabyte of data, in a fraction of a second.

Concepts of Visual Literacy (students do not know this-has applicability for powerpoint use and digital storytelling).

  • Review Definition
  • Color
  • Text
  • Projected vs. paper

Applying Visual Literacy to Education

  • Types of visual resources (Flickr imagery, simulations, animations, Google Earth)
  • Application Spectrum (single image use to multiple image use)
  • Single imagery application (Flicktion)
  • Multiple imagery application, including still frame imagery and motion.
  • Image Composition

c.       Explain:  what can we do today, what can we do tomorrow

d.      One image in instruction

e.       Locating visual resources in education: using Flickr, Google and the National Archives.  Add in the Creative Commons Search

f.        Participant use of Flickr, Tags explained

g.       Multiple images in instruction-using PowerPoint as an instructional tool rather than a presentation tool.

h.      Participant use of PowerPoint, creation of visual presentation

i.         Building inquiry lessons with imagery as a data source.

Introducing myprojectpages.com

CancerQuest, A Tale of Two Telegrams, DesignQuest, CivilRightsQuest

Building visual image compositions:  Digital Storytelling

Conclusions, Debrief and evaluation

Plan of action