Visual Literacy
Common Core in Action: 10 Visual Literacy Strategies
Zero to Eight Children’s Use of Media in America (PDF)
Activity 1
Step 1: Open Deconstructing Images Worksheet
Step 2: Open Tetsu Yushida image
Activity 2:
Explore some Image-Rich Resources
- 500px
- Google Art Project
- The Big Picture
- Flickr: Interesting
- In Focus
- The Flying Japanese Girl
- Dancers Among Us
- Eyewitness App
Tools and techniques to add text to images:
Additional Resources
- Image Analysis
- Deconstruct an Image or, How to Analyze an Advertisement (questions to help foster an awareness to analyzing images)
- Doodling & Math video here
- A Brouchure Without Words
- HSBC Airport Ads (the power of one word with an image)
- Scorcese on Visual Literacy
- Digital Images in the Mathematics Classroom
Resources for Finding Creative Commons Media:
Resources for Citing Creative Commons Work & adding text
Activity 3:
Presentation Ping Pong
- Find a Creative Commons image that inspires you
Click here to access the Presentation
As a whole class, create a collaborative presentation.
Goal: create a seamless story presentation where each individual slide is created by
one person (without knowing what everyone else creates). The story is told “on the fly” as slides pop up during the presentation.
Process:
- Each person creates one slide with one image, properly cited
- As they are created, each person knows that they will speak about one slide, but they won’t know which one
- Once all slides are created number off so that each person is assigned a slide
- Give everyone a minute to look at their slide,
but they might not know what the person before they will say, so don’t give too much time - Everyone gets up and stands in a line in their number order
- Each person speaks about their one slide, creating one seamless story from all of the diverse slides in the presentation
Create a Social Media Card
YouTube Resources
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- User Percentage by Age
- 18-24 – 11%
- 25-34 – 23%
- 35-44 – 26%
- 45-54 – 16%
- 50-64 – 8%
- 65+ – 3%
- unknown age – 14%
Go Live on YouTube (click on image to enlarge)
Step by Step guide to setting up and using YouTube
Screencastify extension for Chrome Browser
Flipgrid.com – 90 second videos for reflections, feedback and ?????
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New Learning Landscape
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Information Landscape Today: Search
- Eric Schmidt
- Wikipedia vs Textbooks
- Is Google making us feel smarter?
- Let’s Search
- A Google A Day
- Domain Extensions by Country
- Newspaper Archives
Math and Science
- Wolfram Alpha
- Wolfram Alpha for Educators
- Google Apps for Science and Math Teachers
- Ratio/Percentage Spreadsheet (GSheet) (Excel)
Information Landscape Today: Wikipedia
- Use the Talk Page
- Wikipedia’s Good Article criteria
- Wikipedia’s Quality Scale
- Wikipedia pops up in bibliographies, and even college curricula
- Wikipedia better than a history textbook
- Is Wikipedia Really Such a Bad Research Tool for Students?
- Wikipedia is arguably subject to more rigorous review practices than are many scholarly publications.
- Wikipedia Infographic
- WikiWand: Making Wiki more visually appealing
- Wikipedia real time edits
- Wikimedia Foundation
- Getting students started with Wikipedia
- WikiJunior
- Wikibooks
Documents:
- Teaching Search Skills
- Teaching Focused Search Skills
- How to Read a Search Result Page
- Complete Guide to Creating Tech Rich Lessons
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Google Maps
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Google My Maps
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