Visual Literacy Across the Curriculum
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Visual is an important part of our teaching. Not only is this helpful to getting across ideas, but it is a key strategy to reaching our Special Education and English Language Learner populations. The Common Core standards address the need for and specifically mention visual literacy in the Integration of Knowledge and Ideas, Range of Text Types, Reading Informational Text, and Writing standards.
Image Sources
Tech Tools
Big Huge Labs
Create motivator posters as warm ups, main idea visual, essential questions connecting text to an image, or have students create one to demonstrate their understanding of a topic. In addition, their magazine cover can be used for students to demonstrate understanding of a topic (magazine title) with a few sentences (article teasers).
Create motivator posters as warm ups, main idea visual, essential questions connecting text to an image, or have students create one to demonstrate their understanding of a topic. In addition, their magazine cover can be used for students to demonstrate understanding of a topic (magazine title) with a few sentences (article teasers).
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Voicethread
Conversations in the cloud. Students can annotate, comment, draw, text, or record a response to text or images. Learn more in this blog post, including ideas, samples utilizing text and images, and step-by-step how to instructions.
Conversations in the cloud. Students can annotate, comment, draw, text, or record a response to text or images. Learn more in this blog post, including ideas, samples utilizing text and images, and step-by-step how to instructions.
Thinglink
Upload an image and the possibilities begin. Students can id parts of an image with textual explanations, hyperlink to additional information/site, upload an image, and link to a You Tube video. Create an inquiry lesson for students and have them utilize Thinglink as their presentation tool.
Upload an image and the possibilities begin. Students can id parts of an image with textual explanations, hyperlink to additional information/site, upload an image, and link to a You Tube video. Create an inquiry lesson for students and have them utilize Thinglink as their presentation tool.
Wordle
Create word clouds. Select a piece of text and then copy and paste it into the site. Wordle analyzes the text and creates a visual of the words used most.
Create word clouds. Select a piece of text and then copy and paste it into the site. Wordle analyzes the text and creates a visual of the words used most.
Zunal
Create and house inquiry lessons in an organized fashion. Zunal has an easy to use template to create webquests.
Sample WWI webquest utilizing Thinglink and Wordle.
Create and house inquiry lessons in an organized fashion. Zunal has an easy to use template to create webquests.
Sample WWI webquest utilizing Thinglink and Wordle.