• Intro
  • Online Activities
  • Activity Plans
  • Bank of Questions
  • Learning Objectives
  • Additional Resources
  • Basics
  • Comments

CONSTRUCTION

Intro | Abstraction |Framing & Gaze |Interpretation |Translation |Construction |Application

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

Exercises
  • Literary Visualization (Matthew Kirschenbaum)
  • Media Analysis Assignment (Kimberlee Staking)
  • Visual Literacy and Photoshop (Nikki Stewart)
  • Juxtaposition Exercise (Andrea Goldman)
  • Gender Rules Quiz (Jo Paoletti)
  • Visuals in the News (Shawn Parry-Giles)
  • Developing Visual Literacy: Exploring Form, Content and Context with Faith Ringgold's Tar Beach 2
Questions (Examples from the Bank of Questions)
  • FORM Question #5: How do the elements of color, line, shape, texture, space and so on work together to contribute to the design of the image?   Consider their interactions:
  • CONTEXT Question #1: What is the medium of the image you are examining?
Intro | Abstraction |Framing & Gaze |Interpretation |Translation |Construction |Application

Web Accessibility

Teaching Visual Literacy to Students with Technology, funded by the Center for Teaching Excellence, the College of Arts and Humanities, the Department of History and the Visual Resources Center. This site is the result of a collaboration between Elsa Barkley Brown, Zac Gordon, Kelly Quinn, Kimberlee Staking, Nikki Stewart, Catherine Hays Zabriskie and the Visual Literacy Working Group.