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Viewing
We are a landscape of all we have seen.
--Isamu Noguchi
The
question is not what you look at, but what you see.
--Thoreau
| Visual
Literacy |
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| Visual Literacy and Picture Books | Links to many resources about picture books and how to begin to develop visual literacy with early learners. |
| Students learn from what they see. How can we help them learn to be more critical viewers. A short module for teachers. | |
| What is visual literacy? A look at the elements of all visuals. | |
Animation |
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| Flash and non-flash version of the concept alphabet book. Highly creative. Both kids and adults will enjoy looking at these! | |
| Fanciful books and stories to download and/or to read online. Also FableVison TV, where you control the channels! | |
| Each letter is animated . A is for Ant, B is for Bird, etc. | |
| Mini-movies on heath, science, technology, math, English and social studies. and a quiz for each! Related activities and links for most topics. | |
| Step-by-step directions for creating animated images for the web. | |
| From How Stuff Works, these pages dismiss the idea that animation is easy! Include production and scriptwriting. | |
| Photography | |
| Guided look at photographs from the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts. Learn about great photographs and the approaches these photographers used to make them. | |
| Digital photography resources: getting started, switching to digital, photo tips, lesson plans, training, photo gallery, interviews, new products. | |
| Making movies? Scripting, shooting, editing and showing the video on the web or CD. Tips from kids and experts, tutorials, ideas for using video in the curriculum. | |
| Annotated list of websites related to digital photography for kids and classrooms from School Library Journal. | |
| An article with examples of using digital cameras in the classroom Two dozen ideas for your classroom and your camera! | |
| Nice list of ideas for using digital photos throughout the curriculum. | |
| Pros and cons of digital photography. Includes ideas for choosing a camera, using cameras, and applications in ESE, ESOL, Science, Math and more. Sample lessons and links to other articles. | |
| Although the page talks about older technology (Sony Mavica with floppy disks), the "more information" section discusses photo releases, editors, compression, and printing. Some handy tips. | |
| From the Casio Classroom, "a reference tool putting educators in touch with creative educational applications for digital cameras in educational settings." Includes lesson plans. | |
Digital
Video for the Web: Assembling the Puzzle Pieces |
Everything you want to know about digital video and audio production, standards, formats, compression, streaming, sample rates, etc. |
| Games using Flickr photographs posted by people around the world. Fastr is one of my favorites. | |
Art
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| Where you display your child's art? On the refrigerator door! A gallery of children's art to enjoy and inspire. | |
| Activities with art to promote critical viewing, creativity, and thinking. | |
| Hundreds of sketchbooks in the Archives of American Art form a vast repository of ideas, perceptions, inspirational imagery, and graphic experiments. As personal records they afford an intimate glimpse of an artist's visual thinking and reveal aspects of their creative process. | |
| Explore the world of art and artists through our interactive timeline and glossary. Learn about the color wheel, the elements and principles of art, and much more! | |
| Study some of our nation's visual treasures. | |
| From the Museum of Modern Art, this adventure in looking helps you understand (and create) art and sculpture. | |
| Tour the best of web art, wallpaper, animation, pong, and more. With exhibit guides. Special guided tour for kids! Highly interactive--maybe even addictive. | |
| What do today's newspapers and magazines take from classic art? A new way of looking at the news. | |
More
and More Visuals to See, Understand, and Use |
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| From Florida's Bureau of Archives (Department of State): Over 100,000 searchable images, film and video clips, significant archives, and more. Includes a special section for classrooms arranged by unit or topics. | |
| From the Library of Congress, images, film clips, audio clips. American Memory " is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections." | |
| Search for pictures, maps, and other graphic resources on the Internet. Excellent collection and easily searchable, with an annotated list of good photograph and image sites and a list of the types of pictures in the database. From the North Central Regional Technology in Education Consortium. | |
| Hundreds of images for you and your students to download and use. Arranged by category. Lesson plans and ideas for using images, too. | |
| Annotated list of links to clipart (and photos on a separate page). | |
| Maps of continents, globes, outline maps, flags for you to use. | |
Visual Atlas from Encarta. |
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| Free downloadable maps of all kinds! | |
| Images sent back to earth by the Mars rover. January 2004. | |
| Presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II. | |
| Look at how ads are constructed and how they may manipulate viewers. | |
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Florida SUNLINK Project • University of Central Florida
Last updated August 2006