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September 19, 2024

Are today's students or as dedicated and idealistic as you?	Visual Literacy

1. Sign in, stowe your other devices, log into a Chromebook, and go to WYAW (While You Are Waiting).
   
   
2. Digital Whiteboards:
   Miro https://miro.com/education-whiteboard/ and
   Whiteboard Fi https://whiteboard.fi/ (formative assessment alert!)
   
   
   • Whiteboard Fi https://whiteboard.fi/ Scroll down to find Join session and wait for your instructor to give you the code to join.
     
     
     
   • Follow your instructor's directions for how to interact with the various Graphic Organizers in the saved board.
     
     
   • Want a quick no sign in Whiteboard to share? Check out the "lite" version of Miro: https://webwhiteboard.com/
     NOTE: This is an "on-the-fly" version of Miro if you don't need to save the board as it expires after 24 hours. To save your boards, sign up for a free account with your class gmail.
   
   
3. Visual Literacy:
   https://bit.ly/4gym5Bs
   
   "...includes interpreting still and moving images, graphs, tables, maps and other graphic representations, and understanding and evaluating how images and language work together in distinctive ways in different curriculum areas to present ideas and information."
   
   "Visual knowledge is understanding how visual elements such as line, colour, shape, texture, space, symbols, pattern and composition create meaning."
   Source: https://creatingmultimodaltexts.com/visual-literacy/
   
   Visual literacy is an element of multimodal communication where we interpret or use different media to represent information and ideas and repond to these media in a variety of modes of learning or interpretation. When we see/read images or read text, we are using a visual mode.
   
   Multimodal modes and media are a way to communicate meaning using more than one mode, or method of communication.
   
   The five modes of communication are linguistic, visual, aural, spatial, and gestural:
   
   • Linguistic: Written and spoken words
   • Visual: Images, whether still or moving
   • Aural: Sound, music, volume, rhythm, pitch, tone, and voice
   • Spatial: Position, physical arrangement, and proximity
   • Gestural: Movement, expression, and body language

   Media The "substance" through which communication is conveyed. For example, photography, painting, and film are all visual media.

   Multimodal projects are those that use multiple modes to communicate a message. For example, a multimodal project might combine text, images, motion, or audio. One example of this is a DIGITAL STORY.
   Source: AI on Google
   
   

   A visually literate individual is able to:

   • Determine the nature and extent of the visual materials needed
   • Find and access needed images and visual media effectively and efficiently
   • Interpret and analyze the meanings of images and visual media
   • Evaluate images and their sources
   • Use images and visual media effectively
   • Design and create meaningful images and visual media
   • Understand many of the ethical, legal, social, and economic issues surrounding the creation and use of images and visual media, and access and use visual materials ethically

   Source: https://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/visualliteracy
   

4. WE DO: "Read" or interpret the symbol: https://quizlet.com/944591023/flashcards
   
   
5. GROUP WORK: Visual literacy: Let's do one together: A Photo Tells a Story
   1. First, choose a photo in the shared folder for your group:
      https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/14KFKl9MQX0Rf30Q8gQ1lQSic7TUDD4cL?usp=sharing
      
      
   2. Look at the image.
      1. What do you see and notice?
      2. How does it make you feel or respond?
      3. What story might the picture tell? (There could also be a REAL story attached to this image but for this activity, how would you use it to tell YOUR story?)

   ADVANCED ADVENTURERS: Download the image from Drive and use Google Lens on the Google search page to find out more about the image, if you wish.
   

6. More with AI Visuals
   These generate images from your prompt:
   
   
   • Good old Co-pilot https://copilot.cloud.microsoft/?auth=2
     NOTE: If you wish an image, tell it specifically in the prompt
   • Leonardo https://app.leonardo.ai/ (sign up with your class account) USES CREDITS FOR FREE VERSION
   • Firefly https://firefly.adobe.com/# (sign up with your class account) USES CREDITS FOR FREE VERSION
   • Ideogram https://ideogram.ai/ (sign up with your class account) USES CREDITS FOR FREE VERSION
   • Gemini https://gemini.google.com/

   These do other things with images including two games:

   • Animate an existing drawing of a someone or something with arms and legs: https://sketch.metademolab.com/
   • Get practice writing detailed prompts to match the daily image, earn points: https://twinpics.ai/
   • Quick Draw (https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/#) Draw and AI tries to guess what you're drawing.
   
   
   ROYALTY FREE MEDIA

Visuals: Pixabay, Pexels, Unsplash, Morguefile

Music
http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/music.html

Speeches
https://archive.org/details/Greatest_Speeches_of_the_20th_Century

All Media, mostly Images
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Wikipedia:Public domain image resources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_domain_image_resources

Public Domain Image Websites
https://99designs.com/blog/resources/public-domain-image-resources/

Access some fabulous visual and audio media collections at the Library of Congress (some are in the Public Domain) https://www.loc.gov/library/libarch-digital.html

RANDOM

Cat Scratch Fever https://i.giphy.com/media/3o72EX5QZ9N9d51dqo/giphy.webp