TO PROVIDE A COMPLETE LITERACY PROGRAM, WE NEED TO INCLUDE OPPORTUNITIES TO DRAW INFORMATION AS WELL AS TO WRITE IT......

DEFINITION: “THE ABILITY TO READ INTERPRET AND UNDERSTAND INFORMATION PRESENTED IN PICTORIAL OR GRAPHIC IMAGES.”

More than meets the eye...

Visual Literacy

WHAT IS VISUAL LITERACY?

Visual Literacy is the ability to interpret, use, appreciate, and create images and video using both conventional and 21st century media in ways that advance thinking, decision making, communication, and learning.

MULTILITERACIES

Read through the Multiliteracies page.

Share your thoughts in the chat.....

Complete the activity....Timeline of Literate Practices.

COLLABORATIVE SPACE DEVELOPMENT Google – storyboarding. http://www.det.nsw.edu.au/ict

http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/669

Benetton play Bitstrips Gliffy Glogster EDU Pixton Prezi Storybird Voice thread http://k-8visual.info/ http://www.pomona.edu/academi

cs/courserelated/classprojects/visual-lit/intro.html

http://www.medialit.org/pdf/mlk/14A

http://www.medialit.org/reading_room article540.html

http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/games/index.cfm

http://www.frankwbaker.com/vl_lessonplans.htm

http://edept.wa.edu.au/education/cmis/eval/fiction/classroom/picturebooks/

http://www.mediaknowall.com/gcse/advertising/analysisnotes.html

GROUP ACTIVITIES

FAB 20

minutes each Writers Notebook

Ultranet. 40 minutes

TURN AND TALK....

To reflect this range of literacies, a classroom program needs to include explicit instruction in how these texts work

Develop some strategies you could include in your teaching practise to broaden your literacy teaching , and the teaching of Literacy at your school.

•Using writers Notebook........•As part of FAB•Utilising Ultranet and Internet