Visual+Literacy

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[|Visual Literacy Toolbox] [|Power Of An Image] (article) [|Picture This - Visual Literacy Activities] [|TED Talks on Visual Literacy] A Conversation With Martin Scorsese - The Importance of Visual Literacy

Teaching Visual Literacy
[|Visual Literacy for K-8] [|What We Eat] Visual Bloom [|History of Visual Communication] Resources from Lynell Burmark

Image Hoaxes
[|Image - Hoax or Real - A Quiz] [|Hoax Photo Database]

[|Photoshop Takes Fake to a Whole New Level] [|Photo Tampering Through History] [|Image Fakery from The Credibles] [|A Brief History of Photo Fakery]

Sites with Powerful Visual Images
[|The Best Online Sources for Images] [|University of Washington Library] - nicely organized list of sources for images. [|Boston University] [|TIME Magazine Photo Essays] [|Library of Congress] [|Digital Photo of the Day - Archive] [|10X10] [|How to use 10x10] [|Google: LIFE Photo Archive] [|Photos That Changed The World] [|World Images] [|World Digital Library] [|New York Public Library] Shorpy - historical photos [|Quizlet]- make flashcards w/pictures

Sites with Copyright Free Images
[|Open Photo] [|Wikimedia Commons] [|Free PhotoBank] (Creative Commons License) [|Flickr] Creative Commons (Creative Commons License) [|FlickrCC] [|History Images] Digital Media Wikispace [|Library of Congress] (not all are copyright free) [|National Archives] [|Photos 8] [|Using Google to Search for Creative Commons Images] My Great World (must cite the page source and the user name of the person who uploaded the picture)

Graphic Organizers
Inspiration Examples

Activities with Images
Name That Candy Bar [|PicLits] [|Pixolu] very interesting picture search site [|Automotivator]- make your own motivational posters [|Shahi] - Visual dictionary - lots of activities [|Sugar Stacks] - Shows various food sources, with sugar cubes indicating how much sugar is in them. Great Quotes about Learning and Change Give students 3-7 photos. Ask them to put them in some order and write a story about the pictures. Have students use images to explain a particular event or time period. Use the Teacher Center of Discovery Streaming to set up some images that can serve as a wide variety of writing prompts. Students can then do their work online. Give students cameras! Tell a story in 5 frames
 * Use images as writing prompts.
 * Have students tell the story of a picture, having to justify what they are telling.
 * Given a set of images, have students sequence them.
 * Use Skitch (mac only) program to "draw" on images.

Miscellaneous
[|A Periodic Table of Visualization] [|Nice summary of digital tech terms] [|Images 4 Education] (ning) Digital Media Wikispaces Brain Rules for Presentations Visual Literacy [|What the World Eats]