A visual and oral presentation of an "animal report" can engage students' interest and develop their artistic and visual literacy skills.
Graphic novels aren't just "literature lite": they're a genre you can use to explore philosophy, history, human interactions, visual literacy, and more with soon-to-be adults in a high school English class.
This is an 8 week experience for the college student that begins by setting a learning context through using library resources, especially online databases, for locating images and art that reflect a chosen research topic and creating a mural that demonstrates the students’ comprehension of the chosen topic. The experience includes conducting research on 3 significant events or people in women’s US history. The written research will be accompanied by images or art that the student has chosen (described) as reflective of, or related to the researched event or person. In order to determine the students’ level of information literacy, the research will include a detailed description of how the students located the images. The students will also draw or describe a personalized sketch of one of the researched events or people. The culmination of the research is the design and painting of a collaborative mural depicting the students' research topics.
This Reusable Learning Object (RLO) was created out of the desire to infuse university courses with information literacy or research activities. A traditional research project on significant events or people in history is enhanced with the discovery and analyzing of art and images within the context of history. Analysis not only includes written text but the painting of a mural. The RLO is structured in a way that allows for easy replication and alteration to a variety of subjects and learning levels.
Strategies for helping students develop visual literacy in looking at paintings and other forms of visual art.
Questions to consider when looking at photographs as primary sources.
In the Life Sciences, images are not mere illustrative supplements to written text,s but are indispensable for communicating complex ideas and concepts; and, if visual literacy doesn't develop naturall,y many will battle to grasp the full meaning of scientific images. Section 1 - Visual Literacy: What is visual literacy and why should we study it? How are scientific images created? Types of scientific images? Section 2 - Evolutionary Iconography: Amoebatoman, The Tree of Life, The Double Helix - a modern icon, Genome sequencing maps, Mutation; Section 3- Development of New Icon, sThe new Tree of Life; Section 4 - Literature Review; Section 5 - Glossary.
Images are all around us, and the ability to interpret them meaningfully is a vital skill for students to learn.
A picture is worth a thousand words -- but which words? Questions can help students decode, interpret, and understand photographs thoughtfully and meaningfully.
Two strategies for helping children understand a story through illustrations.
Illustrations, picture book finding aids, and great picture book websites.
A guide to some of the best websites, activities, and print resources for building visual literacy through the study of art.
Websites, activities, books, and image collections for classroom use.
