BigHugeLabs: Visual Literacy
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Big Huge LabsUsing Visual Literacy to Extend Learning
Calgary Regional Learning Consortium
presents
Calgary Regional Consortium
Elizabeth Cressman Tech Back-up
CRC
Brenda Dyck Session Facilitator CRC
A Web 2.0 mashup tool that supports deep thinking and helps to sharpen students' visual literacy skills.
http://bighugelabs.com
Mashups combine similar types of media and information from multiple sources into a new creation (repurposing)
Educational Tool?
NOTE TO SELF… No tool is an educational
tool until its used in a meaningful way to mediate learning
“Visual Communication is a process of sending and receiving messages using images. Visual literacy can be defined as the ‘ability to construct meaning from visual images.’ (Giorgis, Johnson, Bonomo, Colbert, & al, 1999: 146)
To make meaning from images, the ‘reader’ uses the critical skills of exploration, critique, and reflection.“ ~ The Visual Literacy White Paper, Dr. Anne Bamford, Art and Design University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Making the cognitive jump from using the tool...
... to using the tool to promote inquiry and deep thinking.
to
”The more content is manipulated, the more likely it is understood and remembered.“
~ Janet Allen, from Reading History: A Practical Guide to Improving Literacy
http://bighugelabs.com/motivator.php
upload an image
fill in formatting informationAdd content
When you’re done, click “Create”
http://www.zoo-m.com/flickr-storm/ Use Flickr Storm
Need an Image?
• Do you have an idea for how you might use Big Huge Lab’s Motivator tool in your classroom?
1) Save an image to your desktop PC: right click
Mac: drag the image to your desktop
2) Open the Motivator toolhttp://bighugelabs.com/motivator.php
3) Fill in the information-- Create
http://bighugelabs.com/mosaic.php
upload an image
fill in formatting information
When you’re done, click “Create”
Add content
Use Flickr Storm http://www.zoo-m.com/flickr-storm/
Taking the Mosaic tool to a deeper level:VoiceThread
http://voicethread.com/#e684187
• Do you have an idea for how you might use Big Huge Lab’s Mosaic tool in your classroom?
Accessing your students’ metacognitive thinking
Combining the left and right side of the brain
Developing metaphorical thinking
Assessment Tool
upload a background image
Add magazine article titlesWhen you’re done, click “Create”
Using the Magazine Cover mash-up (combining Big Huge Labs with the Word document’s callout feature).
Here I’m going to show how I use the magazine cover with a Call Out Assignment to access student thinking. Example on next slide.
To create call-outs: Click the Autoshapes option on the Drawing toolbar. Choose a call-out you wish to use. Click and drag to create the bubble. Resize by dragging a handle/dot from the edge of the graphic. To send the bubble to the back or front of another picture, right-
click on the edge of the bubble and choose Arrange. To move or resize the directional area of the graphic, drag by the
yellow dot. To enter text, simply select the graphic and start typing. You will
not see an I bar. You can change the line thickness, color fill, and font of the bubble. (Thanks to Annette Lamb for the above instructions)
• Do you have an idea for how you might use Big Huge Lab’s Magazine tool in your classroom?
http://bighugelabs.com/education.php
Use the site advertising-free
http://wiki.crcpd.ab.ca/groups/newteachers2011webinar/