Learning Objective

What do you want your students to be able to do? What do you want your students to focus on? What are you hoping they can get out of using images?

ABSTRACTION
The concept of Abstraction is challenging but fundamental to all art and visual imagery. These execises, questions and additional resources will help students gain a better understanding of the relationship between abstraction and representation in visual images.
FRAMING and GAZE
The choices that are made when any image is constructed greatly impacts the viewer's experience. These execises, questions and additional resources will provide skills that enable students to read images with greater understanding.
INTERPRETATION
These exercises, questions, and additional resources will help students learn how to describe, interpret, and/or compare images.
TRANSLATION
These exercises, questions, and additional resources will help students learn about the multiple relationships between images and text. Strategies focus on the cognitive processes involved in translating between words and image.
CONSTRUCTION
These exercises, questions, and additional resources will help students learn how negotiate to the constructed nature of images. Strategies act students to engage visual and multimedia compositions, mediated communication, historical knowledge, and social norms.
APPLICATION
These exercises, questions, and additional resources will help students learn how to use images to understand and apply theories and key concepts in your field.